Quotes about boredom
boredom fuel quit temptation
The temptation to quit and start over infects every creative process I've ever been in. Frustration and boredom always fuel this self-doubt. Robert Lopez
boredom british children crisis later letting likely offering plane reluctant simply storm tire waiting women
The British may be reluctant to storm the plane with so many women and children on board. They're more likely to simply use boredom as a weapon, waiting out the crisis and letting the hijackers tire and then later offering them a way out.
boredom done needs
I've never been someone who's very prone to boredom. I don't know, boredom seems like something you should grow out of at about 15 or 16. There's so much that needs to be done. Jason Isbell
boredom challenges sin
one sank into the ancient sin of anomie when challenges failed. Carolyn Heilbrun
boredom guy kind
What's wrong with being a boring kind of guy? George H. W. Bush
boredom dies sheer
I have often thought that when I do die it will be of sheer boredom... Christopher Hitchens
boredom people tyranny
The Postmodernists' tyranny wears people down by boredom and semi-literate prose. Christopher Hitchens
boredom clarity
Clarity keeps you from boredom. Kim Basinger
boredom people contentment
He found himself in habiting the vast, empty plateau where most people live, between boredom and contentment. Jess Walter
boredom causes doe
Boredom ... causes us to neglect more duties than does interest. Francois de La Rochefoucauld
boredom office tolerance
I have no tolerance for boredom. I spend so many hours in the office, and I still love it. Francisco Costa
boredom flying fifty
Turning fifty ... is like flying: hours of boredom punctuated by moments of sheer terror. Erica Jong
boredom
Down with boredom. It has to go. Elsa Maxwell
boredom hatred desire
i'm a slave to my emotions, to my likes, to my hatred of boredom, to most of my desires F. Scott Fitzgerald
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 foes happiness human pain
The two foes of human happiness are pain and boredom Arthur Schopenhauer
boredom fats feds
Love fed fat soon turns to boredom. Ovid
boredom freak ifs
If you're not part of the freaks, you're part of the boredom. Perry Farrell
boredom enemy engagement
[On Senator Everett Dirksen:] His great enemy was boredom and he won every engagement. Mary McGrory
boredom world way
Boredom is not in the world, but in the way we see the world. Paulo Coelho
boredom poverty kind
Boredom is the keynote of poverty - of all its indignities, it is perhaps the hardest of all to live with - for where there is no money there is no change of any kind. Moss Hart
boredom desire seeking
Boredom is desire seeking desire. Leo Tolstoy
boredom desire enthusiasm
Boredom: the desire for desires. Leo Tolstoy
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 choices suffering
One must, in one's life, make a choice between boredom and suffering. Madame de Stael
boredom metaphor
Maybe happiness too is a metaphor invented on a day of boredom Gustave Flaubert
boredom goal principal
Isn’t ‘not to be bored’ one of the principal goals of life? Gustave Flaubert
boredom tolerance attention
Mid-grade readers don't have short attention spans, they just have low boredom tolerance. Judith Viorst
boredom insult being-bored
Being bored is an insult to oneself. Jules Renard
boredom disease syphilis
Morality is a venereal disease. Its primary stage is called virtue; its secondary stage, boredom; its tertiary stage, syphilis. Karl Kraus
boredom people want
Be politically correct, but please don't bother other people with conversation about being politically correct, because that's the end of everything. You want to create boredom? Be politically correct in your conversation. Karl Lagerfeld