Boredom

In heaven all the interesting people are missing

I have never been bored an hour in my life. I get up every morning wondering what new strange glamorous thing is going to happen and it happens at fairly regular intervals

What is written without effort is in general read without pleasure.

I drink to make other people more interesting

Forbidden pleasures alone are loved immoderately; when lawful, they do not excite desire

Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action

Always leave something to wish for; otherwise you will be miserable from your very happiness

Unquestionably, it is possible to do without happiness; it is done involuntarily by nineteen-twentieths of mankind

The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom

Nobody grows old merely by living a number of years. We grow old by deserting our ideals. Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul

None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm

If you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work.

Medicine is my lawful wife and literature my mistress; when I get tired of one, I spend the night with the other.

The closing years of life are like the end of a masquerade party, when the masks are dropped

Every man has his follies - and often they are the most interesting thing he has got.

We are growing serious, and let me tell you, that's the very next step to being dull

To a man of pleasure every moment appears to be lost, which partakes not of the vivacity of amusement

It is necessary to work, if not from inclination, at least from despair. Everything considered, work is less boring than amusing oneself

I feel monotony and death to be almost the same