boredom - quotes

Victor (Marie) Hugo, 1802-1885

was a French dramatist, novelist, and poet

It is possible to conceive of something even more terrible than a hell of suffering, and that is a hell of boredom.

( “Les Misérables”, 1862 )

Dylan Thomas, 1914-1953

was a Welsh poet

Someone's boring me. I think it's me.

( in Rayner Heppenstall, Four Absentees, 1960 )