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21 " Samo odstupanje postalo je deo ujednačenosti. Svi danas moraju biti "nešto posebno", a da se ne ističu na bilo koji način. Odstupanje je dosadno. Kada je individualizam lagodnost, i konformizam postaje individualističan. "
― Lars Fredrik Händler Svendsen , A Philosophy of Boredom
22 " Diversion might seem to be preferable to the misery of life, because it can create an illusion of happiness – at least for a while. "
23 " We seek to be occupied because it liberates us from the emptiness of boredom. "
24 " All humans are lonely, some more than others, but no one escapes loneliness "
25 " this loss of meaning reduces human life to something analogous to an existence that is purely animal. "
26 " At the same time, boredom is inhuman because it robs human life of meaning, or possibly it is an expression of the fact that such a meaning is absent. "
27 " Boredom is the ‘privilege’ of modern man. While there are reasons for believing that joy and anger have remained fairly constant throughout history, the amount of boredom seems to have increased dramatically. The world has apparently become more boring. "
28 " The work seemed to me to be completely meaningless, and I completed it almost like an automaton. "
29 " If boredom increases, it means that there is a serious fault in society or culture as a conveyor of meaning. Meaning has to be understood as a whole. We become socialized within an overall meaning (no matter what form this takes) thatgives meaning to the individual elements in our lives. Another traditional expression of such an overall meaning is ‘culture’. Many theoreticians of modernity have concluded that culture has disappeared and that it has been replaced, for example, by ‘civilization’. If boredom increases, this is presumably because the overall meaning has disappeared. There naturally is a mutual relationship between the overall meaning and the submeanings, i.e., between culture on the one hand and cultural products on the other – and we can also ask ourselves to what extent things are still bearers of culture. Do things still thing?, to quote Heidegger. To put it another way: Do the things have a cohesive influence on a culture? "
30 " One does not know what to do with time when one is bored, for it is precisely there that one’s capacities lie fallow and no real opportunities present themselves. "
31 " El tedio está ligado a un modo de pasar el tiempo en el que el tiempo mismo no es un horizonte de posibilidades, sino algo que debemos pasar "
32 " El vacío del tiempo en el tedio no es un vacío de sucesos, porque en la actualidad siempre sucede algo, aunque no sea otra cosa que la contemplación de cómo seca la pintura sobre la pared. El vacío del tiempo es un vacío de sentido "
33 " Un criterio para distinguir el tedio situacional del existencial podría ser la consideración de que, mientras que el primero contiene la añoranza de algo que se desea, el segundo añora el deseo mismo "
34 " Es como si toda la reflexión naciese de una mirada sentimental reflejada en un nostálgico espejo retrovisor [...] Una esperanza exagerada, tal vez; de ahí que dé lugar a esa ausencia, a ese vacío. Anticipamos un duelo metafísico que está basado en una ausencia que quizá demos por supuesta. El sentido que buscamos en la ausencia de sentido, la experiencia que buscamos en la ausencia de experiencia y el tiempo en la ausencia de tiempo, ¿no serán sólo ilusiones? La conciencia de una pérdida no garantiza que hayamos perdido algo y, por tanto, tampoco habría nada que recuperar "
35 " El ser humano tiene necesidades que determinan bien la naturaleza, bien la sociedad, bien la fuerza de la imaginación. Cuando los objetivos no se ven cumplidos, nos vemos abocados al sufrimiento; cuando los alcanzamos, obtenemos el tedio como resultado. En razón de la insatisfacción en el mundo real, el hombre crea un mundo imaginario, y así es, en efecto, como nacen todas las religiones: como un intento de sustraerse al tedio (paráfrasis de Schopenhauer) "
36 " Como si hubiese huido de mí todo lo que he poseído, y no hubiese de satisfacerme si regresase - Franz Kafka "
37 " And Pascal underlined that it is not a good thing to have all one’s needs satisfied. "
38 " Love may seem to be enough when one does not possess it, but when one has, it will always be insufficient. "
39 " Time collapses, implodes, into a vast, empty present. "
40 " Dasein is bored because life lacks a purpose and a meaning – and the task of boredom is to draw our attention to precisely this. "