Boredom Quotes
-
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.
-
Boredom is the laboratory where new enthusiasms prepare themselves.
-
I have a very low tolerance for boredom and often think I would have missed out on books entirely if I'd grown up in the Internet and video game age. Now I enjoy books for people of all ages, including children.
-
Books - the best antidote against the marsh-gas of boredom and vacuity.
-
Passion goes, Boredom remains.
-
Want and boredom are indeed the twin poles of human life.
-
Turning fifty ... is like flying: hours of boredom punctuated by moments of sheer terror.
-
I always think boredom is to some extent the fault of the bored.
-
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.
-
The two real problems in life are boredom and death.
-
Boredom lies only with the traveler's limited perception and his failure to explore deeply enough. After a while, I found my perception limited.
-
To the distinguished female author’s left was her husband, probably also distinguished in some way, who had the look of many husbands: eyebrows perpetually raised a little in a defensive mask of polite interest, signifying boredom.
-
One wonders what would happen in a society in which there were no rules to break. Doubtless everyone would quickly die of boredom.
-
Even boredom should be described with gusto. How many things are happening on a day when nothing happens?
-
In small towns, news travels at the speed of boredom.
-
Boredom is a luxury good.
-
I’m very interested in sublimation. I love the way Francis Bacon talked about the grin without the cat, the sensation without the boredom of its conveyance… I’ve always wanted to be able to convey figurative imagery in a kind of shorthand, to get it across in as direct a way as possible. I want there to be a human presence without having to depict it in full.
-
Boredom comes simply from ignorance and lack of imagination.
-
We have a world of pleasure to win, and nothing to lose but boredom.
-
What people will do to get away from boredom!
-
BOREDOM with established truths is a great enemy of free men.
-
If life — the craving for which is the very essence of our being — were possessed of any positive intrinsic value, there would be no such thing as boredom at all: mere existence would satisfy us in itself, and we should want for nothing.
-
I'm willing to die, but... not of boredom.
-
Believe me, there’s nothing worse than being both immortal and intelligent. Imagine the boredom! Plus you start to ask questions, and the worst thing about questions is that sometimes, they have answers.
