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“Reaction against the machine-culture. - The machine, itself a product of the highest intellectual energies, sets in motion in those who server it almost nothing but the lower, non-intellectual energies. It thereby releases a vast quantity of energy in general that would otherwise lie dormant, it is true; but it provides no instigation to enhancement, to improvement, to becoming an artist. It makes men active and uniform - but in the long run this engenders a counter-effect, a despairing boredom of soul, which teaches to long for idleness in all it varieties.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits

“Boredom and ineffective attempts to escape tedium are the perpetual lot of humankind.”
― Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls

“But, more than anything, I feared boredom and repose. To be inwardly reposeful, my father and I needed to be outwardly in ferment.”
― Françoise Sagan, Bonjour Tristesse

“Where have I been? she wondered. Is a life that can now be considered an absence a life?

For some time things had been going badly for her. She could cite nothing in particular as a problem; rather, it was as if life in general had a grudge against her. Things persisted in turning grey. Although at first she had revelled in the erudite seclusion of her job, in the protection against the vulgarities of the world that it offered, after five years she now felt that in some way it had aged her disproportionately, that she was as old as the yellowed papers she spent her days unfolding. When, very occasionally, she raised her eyes from the past and surveyed the present, it faded from her view and became as ungraspable as a mirage. Although she had discussed this with the Director, who had waved away her condition of mind as an occupational hazard, she was still not satisfied that this was how the only life she had been offered should be lived.”
― Marian Engel

“Tedium represents the soul’s disaffection with life, the profound heartache that comes from a soul accepting the bareness of existence.”
― Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls

“Night is a great need, it is a gift of nature to us creatures who get bored quickly! It is a wonderful medicine for the souls bored of the daytime!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“Boredom isn’t a longing, a lengthening of time. It is a spacey feeling, of being spaced out. What is boring is a space in which either one cannot act, or one’s actions amount to nothing. [...] What displaces boredom is the capacity to act in a way that transforms a situation.”
― McKenzie Wark, Gamer Theory