Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes About Boredom

• Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves?

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Inspirational, Life, Passion

  "Beyond Good and Evil". Book by Friedrich Nietzsche, Chapter VII: Our Virtues, Aphorism 227, 1886.

• Against boredom even gods struggle in vain.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Struggle, Boredom, Vain

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2013). “The Selected Writings of Friedrich Nietzsche”, p.729, Simon and Schuster

• Many people, especially women, never experience boredom because they have never learned to work properly.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Women, People, Boredom

• A subject for a great poet would be God's boredom after the seventh day of creation.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Boredom, Great Day, Would Be

• God created woman. And boredom did indeed cease from that moment-but many other things ceased as well!

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Boredom, Moments, That Moment

  Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (2007). “Twilight of the Idols with the Antichrist and Ecce Homo”, p.141, Wordsworth Editions

• One receives as reward for much ennui, despondency, boredom -such as a solitude without friends, books, duties, passions must bring with it -those quarter-hours of profoundest contemplation within oneself and nature. He who completely entrenches himself against boredom also entrenches himself against himself: he will never get to drink the strongest refreshing draught from his own innermost fountain.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Book, Passion, Boredom

• The saying, "The Magyar is much too lazy to be bored," is worth thinking about. Only the most subtle and active animals are capable of boredom.--A theme for a great poet would be God's boredom on the seventh day of creation.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Animal, Thinking, Boredom

• With deep men, as with deep wells, it takes a long time for anything that falls into them to hit bottom. Onlookers, who almost never wait long enough, readily suppose that such men are callous and unresponsive--or even boring.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Fall, Men, Long

• Only the most acute and active animals are capable of boredom.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Animal, Boredom, Active

  Friedrich Nietzsche, R. J. Hollingdale (1996). “Nietzsche: Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits”, p.323, Cambridge University Press

• Against boredom the gods themselves fight in vain.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  God, Fighting, Boredom

  Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Thomas Wayne (2004). “Ecce Homo: How One Becomes what One is; The Antichrist: a Curse on Christianity”, p.152, Algora Publishing

• To escape boredom, man works either beyond what his usual needs require, or else he invents play, that is, work that is designed to quiet no need other than that for working in general.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Blessing, Men, Play

  Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1984). “Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits”, p.254, U of Nebraska Press

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