Maybe happiness too is a metaphor invented on a day of boredom

By Gustave Flaubert

The price of being a sheep is boredom. The price of being a wolf is loneliness. Choose one or the other with great care.

By Hugh MacLeod

Boredom and ineffective attempts to escape tedium are the perpetual lot of humankind.

By Kilroy J. Oldster

Tolstoy described boredom as “a desire for desires,” while the working-class Chekhov wrote about it primarily as a desire for escape.

By Mary Mann
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