Amusement-Boredom

One can be bored until boredom becomes the most sublime of all emotions. (Logan Pearsall Smith)

By his very success in inventing labour-saving devices, modern man has manufactured an abyss of boredom that only the privileged classes in earlier civilizations have ever fathomed. (Lewis Mumford)

One must choose in life between boredom and torment. (Mme de Stael)

Great minds tend toward banality. It is the noblest effort of individualism. But it implies a sort of modesty, which is so rare that it is scarcely found except in the greatest, or in beggars. (André Gide)

The man who suspects his own tediousness is yet to be born. (Thomas Bailey Aldrich)

When men are rightly occupied, their amusement grows out of their work, as the colour-petals out of a fruitful flower. (John Ruskin)

Nothing is so aggravating as calmness. There is something positively brutal about the good temper of most modern men. (Oscar Wilde)