Is boredom anything less than the sense of one's faculties slowly dying?

Is boredom anything less than the sense of one's faculties slowly dying?

Life swings like a pendulum backward and forward between pain and boredom

Man ceased to be an ape, vanquished the ape, on the day the first book was written.

It has always appeared to me, that there is so much to be done in this world, that all self-inflicted suffering which cannot be turned to good account for others, is a loss - a loss, if you may so express it, to the spiritual world.

The greatest luxury of riches is that they enable you to escape so much good advice.