‘Boredom is a serious matter… Our aversion to being bored has considerably greater significance than a mere reluctance to experience a state of consciousness that is more or less unpleasant. The aversion arises out of our sensitivity to a far more portentous threat… that we have no interest in what is going on.’
- Harry Frankfurt
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Posts Tagged ‘Albert Camus’
Sixth Sunday after Epiphany
Posted in Sunday Quotes, tagged Albert Camus, C.S. Lewis, Harry Frankfurt on February 15, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Sixth Sunday in Lent (Palm Sunday)
Posted in Sunday Quotes, tagged Albert Camus, John Donne, Palm Sunday on March 16, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
‘…since the order of world is regulated by death, perhaps is it better for God we do not believe in him and we fight with all our might against death, without raising our eyes heavenward where he keeps silent.’
- Albert Camus, The Plague
‘Here is a man, that shall never see death so, but that he [...]