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Boredom is nothing but the experience of a paralysis of our productive powers.

Boredom is nothing but the experience of a paralysis of our productive powers.

Erich Fromm
Blessing, Boredom, Paralysis
Erich Fromm (2013). “Sane Society Ils 252”, p.202, Routledge

Greedhas no satiation point, since its consummation does not fill the inner emptiness, boredom, loneliness, and depression it is meant to overcome.

Erich Fromm
Loneliness, Boredom, Greed
Erich Fromm (2013). “To Have Or To Be?”, p.97, A&C Black

I am convinced that boredom is one of the greatest tortures. If I were to imagine Hell, it would be the place where you were continually bored.

Erich Fromm
Blessing, Bores You, Boredom
Erich Fromm (2014). “The Dogma of Christ: and Other Essays on Religion, Psychology and Culture”, p.104, Open Road Media

Chronic boredom compensated or uncompensated constitutes one of the major psychopathological phenomena in contemporary technotronic society, although it is only recently that it has found some recognition.

Erich Fromm
Boredom, Recognition, Found
Erich Fromm (2013). “The Anatomy of Human Destructiveness”, p.400, Open Road Media

Boredom is nothing but the experience of a paralysis of our productive powers and the sense of unaliveness. Among the evils of life, there are few which are as painful as boredom, and consequently every attempt is made to avoid it.

Erich Fromm
Evil, Boredom, Painful
Erich Fromm (2013). “Sane Society Ils 252”, p.202, Routledge

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