“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.”

“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.”

“Politeness is the art of bearing boredom without being bored.”

“To be, in a word, unborable…. It is the key to modern life. If you are immune to boredom, there is literally nothing you cannot accomplish”

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

“There is nothing worse than having your personal problems become somebody else's entertainment.”

“According to Gur's theory of boredom, everything that happens in the world today is because of boredom: love, war, inventions, fake fireplaces - ninety-five percent of all that is pure boredom.”

“Men become utilitarian out of fear of the alternative—the chaos of tangled or tepid desires, of rootlessness and boredom.”

“Boredom is fear's patience. Fear doesn't want to exaggerate.”

“Isn't history ultimately the result of our fear of boredom?”