Blaise Pascal Quotes About Boredom

Quotes about: Boredom

• Nothing is so intolerable to man as being fully at rest, without passion, without business, without entertainment, without care. It is then that he recognizes that he is empty, insufficient, dependent, ineffectual. From the depths of his soul now comes at once boredom, gloom, sorrow, chagrin, resentment and despair.

  Blaise Pascal

  Passion, Men, Boredom

• All our life passes in this way: we seek rest by struggling against certain obstacles, and once they are overcome, rest proves intolerable because of the boredom it produces.

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  Struggle, Blessing, Boredom

  Blaise Pascal (1966). “Pascal Pensées”, Penguin Classics

• All man's troubles come from not knowing how to sit still in one room.

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  Blessing, Men, Knowing

• Man finds nothing so intolerable as to be in a state of complete rest, without passions, without occupation, without diversion, without effort. Then he feels his nullity, loneliness, inadequacy, dependence, helplessness, emptiness.

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  Loneliness, Passion, Men

• Condition de l'homme: inconstance, ennui, inquie tude. Man's condition. Inconstancy, boredom, anxiety.

  Blaise Pascal

  Men, Boredom, Anxiety

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