Boredom

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BOREDOM: Ennui has made more gamblers than avarice, more drunkards than thirst, and perhaps as many suicides as despair. (Charles Caleb Colton, English cleric and writer, 1780-1832)
BOREDOM: Man is the only animal that can be bored. (Erich Fromm, German social psychologist, psychoanalyst, and humanistic philosopher, 1900-1980)
BOREDOM: Any idiot can face a crisis; it's day to day living that wears you out. (Anton Chekhov, Russian short-story writer and dramatist, 1860-1904)
BOREDOM: A man can stand almost anything except a succession of ordinary days. (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, German poet, dramatist, novelist, and philosopher, 1749-1832)