Quotes about boredom
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
Boredom is a great motivator. Uma Thurman
boredom suffering desire
Boredom is the inner conflict we suffer when we lose desire, when we lack a lacking. Robert McKee
boredom people mind
Boredom is what happens to people who have no control over their minds. Rebecca Stead
boredom existential impending-death
There's nothing like impending death to rouse you from existential boredom. Roger Ebert
boredom long return
Surely a long life must be somewhat tedious, since we are forced to call in so many trifling things to help rid us of our time, which will never return. Samuel Johnson
boredom scholar known
It is the unknown that excites the ardor of scholars, who, in the known alone, would shrivel up with boredom. Wallace Stevens
boredom way boring
The best way to be boring is to include everything. Voltaire
boredom way bores
The way to be a bore is to say everything.
boredom secret brevity
The secret of being a bore... is to tell everything.
boredom slipping coma
I'm bored with it all. Before slipping into a coma. He died 9 days later. Winston Churchill
boredom deviants dies
In the U.S., you have to be a deviant or die of boredom. William S. Burroughs
boredom gusto should
Even boredom should be described with gusto. How many things are happening on a day when nothing happens? Wislawa Szymborska
boredom criticism form
Boredom, after all, is a form of criticism. Wendell Phillips
boredom way inability
The concept of boredom entails an inability to use up present moments in a personally fulfilling way. Wayne Dyer
boredom excitement
I’ve seen excitement, and I’ve seen boredom. And boredom was best. Terry Pratchett
boredom effort negative
Boredom is the effort used in suppressing something negative. Leonard Orr
boredom evil stupidity
Boredom and stupidity and patriotism, especially when combined, are three of the greatest evils of the world we live in. Robertson Davies
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 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 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 achievement needs
We shop out of boredom, for release, for excitement, for a sense of achievement, for a sense of control over our unruly existences. And every so often, we shop because we need something to wear. Tim Gunn
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 mourning despair
Symmetry is tedious, and tedium is the very basis of mourning. Despair yawns. Victor Hugo
boredom suffering hell
There is something more terrible than a hell of suffering--a hell of boredom.
boredom painting habit
Painting bores me like everything else. Unfortunately, painting is one of the activities - it is bound up in the series of activities - that seems to change almost nothing in life, the same habits are always recurring. Rene Magritte
boredom routine life-is
To the elitist hedonist, life is the avoidance of boredom and routine. Timothy Leary