Quotes about boredom
boredom soul enemy
He regards boredom, I observe, as the One and Mighty Enemy of his soul. And will succeed in conquering it, I am sure—if he survives the experience. Dorothy Dunnett
boredom could-have-been has-beens
Before, for me, peace could have been synonymous with boredom. Isabelle Adjani
boredom bores oneself
Everyone is a bore to someone. That is unimportant. The thing to avoid is being a bore to oneself. Gerald Brenan
boredom function release
The function of music is to release us from the boredom of existence. Sebastian Horsley
boredom thrill stories
Boredom has been used as a technique, it is a device. In Zen, boredom is used as a device: you are bored to death, and you are not allowed to escape. You are not to go outside, you are not to entertain yourself, you are not to do, you are not to talk, you are not to read novels and detective stories. No thrill. No possibility to escape anywhere. Rajneesh
boredom want sometimes
If you really want a life which has no boredom in it, drop all masks, be true. Sometimes it will be difficult, I know, but it is worth it. Be true.
boredom feels products
Boredom and restlessness are deeply related. Whenever you feel boredom, then you feel restlessness. Restlessness is a by-product of boredom.
boredom never-settle flow
The beauty of facing life unprepared is tremendous. Then life has a newness, a youth; then life has a flow and freshness. Then life has so many surprises. And when life has so many surprises, boredom never settles in you.
boredom firsts life-is
Life is first boredom, then fear, Philip Larkin
boredom affliction terrible
Boredom is a terrible affliction of the soulless. Laini Taylor
boredom dies
So eager to die are you? (Zakar) Not particularly, but I’d rather go down clubbing Kessar than from boredom. (Kat) Sherrilyn Kenyon
boredom speech tedious
That which is repeated too often becomes insipid and tedious.
boredom window traffic
I looked out the window for other passengers in love with their drivers, but we were well disguised, we pretended boredom and prayed for traffic. Miranda July
boredom causes results
Boredom is often the cause of promiscuity, and always its result. Mignon McLaughlin
boredom sailing sides
I was sailing from tedium to apathy with a side trip to torpor. Peggy Noonan
boredom flying training
I finally overcame my phobia, and now I approach flying with a sort of studied boredom - a learned habit, thanks to my learn-to-fly-calmly training - but like all former flying phobics, I retain a weird and feverish fascination with aviation news, especially bad news. Susan Orlean
boredom anxiety flow
A typical day is full of anxiety and boredom. Flow experiences provide the flashes of intense living against this dull background. Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
boredom disrespect world
The world, this palpable world, which we were wont to treat with the boredom and disrespect with which we habitually regard places with no sacred association for us, is in truth a holy place, and we did not know it. Venite, adoremus. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
boredom effort negative
Boredom is the effort used in suppressing something negative. Leonard Orr
boredom vacuums existential
The existential vacuum manifests itself mainly in a state of boredom. Viktor E. Frankl
boredom despair emptiness
Emptiness and boredom: what a complete understatement. What I felt was complete desolation. Desolation, despair and boredom. Susanna Kaysen
boredom feelings facts
My chronic feelings of emptiness and boredom came from the fact that I was living a life based on my incapacities, which were numerous.
boredom needs delight
A person with friends need never be bored. There is always more to fathom and enjoy in the complexity of others, and always the possibility of finding a way to delight them. Stephanie Mills
boredom wells ifs
If I were well behaved, I'd die of boredom. Tallulah Bankhead
boredom people trying
Many people try to avoid pressure, yet the absence of any tension or pressure usually creates a sense of boredom and the lackluster experience of life that so many people complain about. Tony Robbins
boredom rejection moral
Punk was a protest against work and against boredom. It was a sign of life, a rant, a scream, a rejection of bourgeois morals. But have things improved since then? Arguably, they've got worse. Tom Hodgkinson
boredom pleasure situation
Idleness allows you to turn a situation from boredom to pleasure.
boredom office long
Life has been reduced to a series of long periods of boredom in the office punctuated by high-octane "experiences" which you can rack up on your list of things to do before you die. That's not really living: that is slavery with the occasional circus thrown in.
boredom disease
Boredom is a disease, too. Tommy Chong
boredom married inevitable
The boredom of married life inevitable destroys love, when love has preceded marriage. Stendhal
boredom unhappiness
The only unhappiness is a life of boredom.
boredom equal
Rules equal boredom, and I don't like that. Simon Cowell
boredom wonder break
One wonders what would happen in a society in which there were no rules to break. Doubtless everyone would quickly die of boredom. Susan Howatch