Quotes about boredom
boredom looks way
Boredom or discontent is useful to me when I acknowledge it and see clearly my assumption that there's something else I would rather be doing. In this way boredom can act as an invitation to freedom by opening me to new options and thoughts. For example, if I can't change the activity, can I look at it more honestly? Hugh Prather
boredom revolutionary
Boredom is always counter-revolutionary. Always. Guy deBord
boredom moments that-moment
God created woman. And boredom did indeed cease from that moment-but many other things ceased as well! Friedrich Nietzsche
boredom evil painful
Boredom is nothing but the experience of a paralysis of our productive powers and the sense of unaliveness. Among the evils of life, there are few which are as painful as boredom, and consequently every attempt is made to avoid it. Erich Fromm
boredom recognition found
Chronic boredom compensated or uncompensated constitutes one of the major psychopathological phenomena in contemporary technotronic society, although it is only recently that it has found some recognition.
boredom bored paralysis
Boredom is nothing but the experience of a paralysis of our productive powers.
boredom flying fifty
Turning fifty ... is like flying: hours of boredom punctuated by moments of sheer terror. Erica Jong
boredom overcoming married
The problem in public life is learning to overcome terror; the problem in married life is learning to overcome boredom. Gabriel Garcia Marquez
boredom
My boredom with everything has numbed me. Fernando Pessoa
boredom height speed
I love heights. I love speed. Im on the verge of being a pyromaniac. Maybe my phobia is boredom. Erin Wasson
boredom percent sheer
It's 90 percent boredom and 10 percent sheer terror.
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 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.
boredom guy kind
What's wrong with being a boring kind of guy? George H. W. Bush
boredom today tomorrow
The prospect of being pleased tomorrow will never console me for the boredom of today. Francois de La Rochefoucauld
boredom causes doe
Boredom ... causes us to neglect more duties than does interest.
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 historical force
Boredom and fatigue are great historical forces. Jacques Barzun
boredom long doe
I don't like being in one place too long. Five days just about does it for me because I have a very low threshold for boredom. Jackie Collins
boredom mania
We choose mania over boredom every time. James Gleick
boredom one-thing
There is only one thing worse than boredom, and that is the fear of boredom. Emile M. Cioran
boredom mind sap
Boredom dismantles the mind, renders it superficial, out at the seams, saps it from within and dislocates it.
boredom audience decoration
Audience boredom is usually a content failure, not a decoration failure. Edward Tufte
boredom insulting england
From every Englishman emanates a kind of gas, the deadly choke-damp of boredom. Heinrich Heine
boredom dull grindstone
A dull ax never loves grindstones. Henry Ward Beecher
boredom neurosis cures
Boredom is the only sure cure for neurosis. Mason Cooley
boredom sleepy restless
Boredom makes me sleepy or restless.
boredom bored trying
When I am bored with myself, I try to find someone to listen to me.
boredom enough oneself
One eventually has enough even of oneself.
boredom contradiction
A yawn is more disconcerting than a contradiction.