“Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time; serenity, that nothing is.”

“Reading the Socratic dialogues one has the feeling: what a frightful waste of time! What's the point of these arguments that prove nothing and clarify nothing?”

“For the amoral herd that fears boredom above all else, everything becomes entertainment. Sex and sport, politics and the arts are transformed into entertainment… Nothing is immune from the demand that boredom be relieved.”

“They were connoisseurs of boredom. They savoured the various bouquets of the subtly differentiated boredoms which rose from the long, wasted hours at the dead end of night.”

“We told him to get on with it. We liked wasting time, but almost nothing was more annoying than having our wasted time wasted on something not worth wasting it on.”

“With everything ahead of us
We left everything behind.
But nothing that we needed;
At least not at this time.
And now the feeling that I’m feeling,
Well it’s feeling like my life is finally mine.
With nothing to go back to we just continue to drive.”

“The seed of curiosity had been planted; it needed nothing more than time and boredom to grow.”

“The long sobs of
The violins
Of autumn
Lay waste my heart
With monotones
Of boredom.”

“othing ever truly dies. The universe wastes nothing, everything is simply transformed.”

“4934. There is nothing more precious than Time, and nothing more prodigally wasted.”