"Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time; serenity, that nothing is."
"I don't believe in an afterlife, so I don't have to spend my whole life fearing hell, or fearing heaven even more. For whatever the tortures of hell, I think the boredom of heaven would be even worse."
"Your true traveller finds boredom rather agreeable than painful. It is the symbol of his liberty - his excessive freedom. He accepts his boredom, when it comes, not merely philosophically, but almost with pleasure."
"There are no uninteresting things, only uninterested people."
"The absence of the will to live is, alas, not sufficient to make one want to die."