“No one has yet added up all the heavy, stress-filled workdays as well as the hundreds, perhaps thousands, of lives that are wasted to produce the world’s amusements. It is for this reason that “amusements” are not so amusing.”

“Perhaps one has to be very old before one learns to be amused rather than shocked.”

“The unfortunate who has to travel for amusement lacks capacity for amusement.”

“I have always done my sketches, as people would say, for the fun of it… I have worked to amuse myself, and if it has amused the public as well, so much the better for me.”

“We do not live for idle amusement. I would not run round a corner to see the world blow up.”

“When one is in town one amuses oneself. When one is in the country one amuses other people. It is excessively boring.”

“"Amused to Death" on Amused to Death (Roger Waters, 1992)”

“… happiness does not consist in amusement. In fact, it would be strange if our end were amusement, and if we were to labor and suffer hardships all our life long merely to amuse ourselves…. The happy life is regarded as a life in conformity with virtue. It is a life which involves effort and is not spent in amusement….”

“Truth is not exciting enough to those who depend on the characters and lives of their neighbors for all their amusement; and if a story is told of more than common interest, ennui is sure to have its joy in adding embellishments. If hours did not hang heavy, what would become of scandal?”

“What me worry? I never do
I'm always amused and amusing you”