One sometimes says: 'He killed himself because he was bored with life.' One ought rather to say: 'He killed himself because he was bored by lack of life.'
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Boredom is the root of all evil - the despairing refusal to be oneself.
One must choose in life between boredom and suffering.
The obsession with suicide is characteristic of the man who can neither live nor die, and whose attention never swerves from this double impossibility.
There's no excuse to be bored. Sad, yes. Angry, yes. Depressed, yes. Crazy, yes. But there's no excuse for boredom, ever.
The destructive character lives from the feeling, not that life is worth living, but that suicide is not worth the trouble.
There's nothing like impending death to rouse you from existential boredom.
When people are bored it is primarily with themselves.
I think I do have a sort of terrible propensity for boredom and for being bored, even though I am absolutely of the opinion that one shouldn't be bored and that there is no excuse for it and that it is a personal failing.
Many people have played themselves to death. Many people have eaten and drunk themselves to death. Nobody ever thought himself to death.
No one ever lacks a good reason for suicide.