Boredom Quotes
-
I've never known a Philadelphian who wasn't a downright 'character'; possibly a defense mechanism resulting from the dullness of their native habitat.
-
For I have neither wit, nor words, nor worth, Action, nor utterance, nor the power of speech, To stir men's blood: I only speak right on; I tell you that which you yourselves do know.
-
Of course, true love is exceptional - two or three times a century, more or less. The rest of the time there is vanity or boredom.
-
Against boredom the gods themselves fight in vain.
-
Squeeze marriage as much as you like, you will never extract anything from it but fun for bachelors and boredom for husbands.
-
Variety is more than a means of avoiding boredom, since art is more than an entertainment of the senses.
-
Perhaps election fever is developing into something more like sleeping sickness, as the utter boredom of a contest in which almost all the attention seems to be on personalities and polls wears us all down. I just wish they would get on with it.
-
Only the dead are truly smart, truly cool. Nothing touches them. While I live, however, I side with bumbling suffering crooked life, with anger rather than boredom, with sweet lust, hunger & carelessness...against the icy avant-guard & its fashionable premonitions of the sepulcher.
-
You are never tired of painting, because you have to set down not what you know already, but what you have just discovered.
-
A month passes by and brings another month. Easy to guess what lies ahead: all of yesterday's boredom. And tomorrow ends up no longer like tomorrow.
-
I think the fear of being seen as childish or crazy severely limits our enjoyment of the world around us, thus inducing a state of boredom that in turn gives rise to much of the stupidity and meanness that oftem seem to epitomize the human condtion. In fact, these ills merely signify that the dues we pay for adult respectability are far too high, and bring some 'benefits' of questionable value.
-
If you want to cure boredom, be curious. If you're curious, nothing is a chore; it's automatic - you want to study. Cultivate curiosity, and life becomes an unending study of joy.
-
Your misconceptions veil the holy. The Princess is naked beneath the surface of every form. Your boredom would vanish if you had more of a clue about the Reality I know.
-
Want and boredom are indeed the twin poles of human life.
-
Man's worst enemies are boredom and discontent.
-
Writing is a deeply immersive experience. When the words are flying, the house could be burgled and I wouldn’t notice. I have a low boredom threshold and I like intensity – writing is a way of escaping the quotidian.
-
All our life passes in this way: we seek rest by struggling against certain obstacles, and once they are overcome, rest proves intolerable because of the boredom it produces.
-
Speak on, but be not over-tedious.
-
Boredom is the root of all evil - the despairing refusal to be oneself.
-
Boredom is the conviction that you can't change ... the shriek of unused capacities.
-
Everyone rushes his life on, and suffers from a yearning for the future and a boredom with the present. But that man who devotes every hour to his own needs, who plans every day as if it were his last, neither longs for nor fears tomorrow.
-
I didn't leave physics because of boredom. I left it because other issues compelled me in a bigger way. And I always say to myself, "When I'm 60, I'd like to go back to what I interrupted."
-
Boredom lies only with the traveler's limited perception and his failure to explore deeply enough. After a while, I found my perception limited.
-
Passion goes, Boredom remains.
