Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes About Boredom

Quotes about: Boredom

• The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Happiness, Happy, Pain

• If life — the craving for which is the very essence of our being — were possessed of any positive intrinsic value, there would be no such thing as boredom at all: mere existence would satisfy us in itself, and we should want for nothing.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Essence, Boredom, Would Be

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2015). “The Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer - Studies in Pessimism (illustrated)”, p.22, Full Moon Publications

• Life swings like a pendulum backward and forward between pain and boredom.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Pain, Blessing, Swings

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2016). “101 Facts of life”, p.66, Publishdrive

• Boredom is an evil that is not to be estimated lightly. It can come in the end to real despair. The public authority takes precautions against it everywhere, as against other universal calamities.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Real, Evil, Boredom

• Boredom is just the reverse side of fascination.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Philosophical, Boredom, Fascination

• That human life must be some kind of mistake is sufficiently proved by the simple observation that man is a compound of needs which are hard to satisfy; that their satisfaction achieves nothing but a painless condition in which he is only given over to boredom . . .

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Mistake, Simple, Men

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2004). “On the Suffering of the World”, p.22, Penguin UK

• Boredom is just the reverse side of fascination: both depend on being outside rather than inside a situation, and one leads to the other.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Boredom, Fascination, Sides

• If the world were a paradise of luxury and ease, a land flowing with milk and honey, where every Jack obtained his Jill at once and without any difficulty, men would either die of boredom or hang themselves; or there would be wars, massacres, and murders; so that in the end mankind would inflict more suffering on itself than it has now to accept at the hands of Nature.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  War, Men, Milk And Honey

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2015). “The Suffering of the World”, p.6, Simon and Schuster

• If at any moment Time stays his hand, it is only when we are delivered over to the miseries of boredom.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Hands, Boredom, Misery

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2015). “Studies in Pessimism: Top of Schopenhauer”, p.2, 谷月社

• Want and boredom are indeed the twin poles of human life.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Blessing, Boredom, Want

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2004). “On the Suffering of the World”, p.11, Penguin UK

• A great affliction of all Philistines is that idealities afford them no entertainment, but to escape from boredom they are always in need of realities.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Reality, Boredom, Needs

  "Aphorisms on the Wisdom of Life". Book by Arthur Schopenhauer, trans. by E. Payne, Vol. 1, p. 345, 1974.

• People of Wealth and the so called upper class suffer the most from boredom.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Class, People, Boredom

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