Friedrich Nietzsche Boredom Quotations

A subject for a great poet would be God's boredom after the seventh day of creation.

The saying, "The Magyar is much too lazy to be bored," is worth thinking about. Only the most subtle and active animals are capable of boredom.--A theme for a great poet would be God's boredom on the seventh day of creation.

God created woman. And boredom did indeed cease from that moment-but many other things ceased as well!

Against boredom even gods struggle in vain.

With deep men, as with deep wells, it takes a long time for anything that falls into them to hit bottom. Onlookers, who almost never wait long enough, readily suppose that such men are callous and unresponsive--or even boring.

Many people, especially women, never experience boredom because they have never learned to work properly.

One receives as reward for much ennui, despondency, boredom -such as a solitude without friends, books, duties, passions must bring with it -those quarter-hours of profoundest contemplation within oneself and nature. He who completely entrenches himself against boredom also entrenches himself against himself: he will never get to drink the strongest refreshing draught from his own innermost fountain.

Against boredom the gods themselves fight in vain.

Only the most acute and active animals are capable of boredom.