To escape boredom, man works either beyond what his usual needs require, or else he invents play, that is, work that is designed to quiet no need other than that for working in general.
Friedrich NietzscheCuriosity creeps into the houses of the unfortunate and the needy under the name of duty or of pity.
Friedrich NietzscheThere are the spiritually consumptive ones: hardly are they born when they begin to die, and long for doctrines of lassitude and renunciation.
Friedrich Nietzsche