Ennui

Many fear boredom – even the faintest whiff of boredom sends them scurrying right back to the game.

Schopenhauer said that willing itself is never fulfilled - as soon as one wish is satisfied, another appears. Though there may be some very brief respite, some fleeting period of satiation, it is immediately transformed into boredom.

Every human life, he said, is tossed backward and forward between pain and boredom.

~ Yalom