Kierkegaard on Boredom

In a section of his 1843 masterwork Either/Or: A Fragment of Life, which also gave us Kierkegaard on our greatest source of unhappiness, the Danish philosopher defines boredom as a sense of emptiness and examines it not as an absence of stimulation but as an absence of meaning — an idea that also explains why it’s possible, today more than ever, to be overstimulated but existentially bored.

by (https://www.brainpickings.org/2015/01/14/kierkegaard-boredom-idleness-either-or/)
Illustration by Edward Gorey from ‘The Shrinking of Treehorn’ by Florence Parry Heide.