“Intellectuals suck, Nathan. They are the most boring people in the world.” — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
If you have to ask the person if they're bored, you already know the answer. — Nikhil Saluja Copy Share Image
Perhaps the worlds second worst crime is boredom. The first is being a bore. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“holy boredom is good and sufficient reason for the invention of free will. —” — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
The average man gets his living by such depressing devices that boredom becomes a sort of natural state to him. — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
I suppose kids probably know less boredom these days - or at least a different kind of boredom. — Charlie Brooker Copy Share Image
You searched through all my poets, From Sappho through to Auden, I saw the book fall from your hands, As you slowly… — Nick Cave Copy Share Image
Just read 66 pages of PerezHilton.com. If I didn't have anal sex on camera for a living, I'd be a total waste… — Asa Akira Copy Share Image
Boredom is a blessing when it leads you to wisdom. And boredom is a curse when it leads you to frustration and… — Sri Sri Ravi Shankar Copy Share Image
“He was working hard at increasing his life span. He did it by cultivating boredom.” — Joseph Heller Copy Share Image
“Boredom is probably more frequent and more tormenting if you do not have sight or hands.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
“Nece biti manje dosadno ako napisem da je dosadno i velika smisla ne vidim u ovom, ali oko mene je tako pusto… — Ivo Andrić Copy Share Image
There are children who will leave a game to go and be bored in a corner of the garret. How often have… — Gaston Bachelard Copy Share Image
I have closely noted that people who watch a great deal of TV never again seem able to adjust to the actual… — Jim Harrison Copy Share Image
There's a rebirth that goes on with us continuously as human beings. I don't understand, personally, how you can be bored. I… — Dustin Hoffman Copy Share Image
Conversationis like the table of contents of a dull book… All the greatest subjects of human thought are proudly displayedin it. Listen… — Stendhal Copy Share Image
Nature is interested in only two things--to survive and to reproduce one like itself. Anything you superimpose on that, all the cultural… — U.G. Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
I grew up in Le Mars, Iowa, and even though it's a great place to grow up and be raised as a… — Paul Rust Copy Share Image
Ennui, the demon, waited at the threshold of his noiseless refuge, and drove away the stirring hopes and enlivening expectations, which form… — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley Copy Share Image
“This was very bitter to Gerald, who had never known what boredom was, who had gone from activity to activity, never at… — D.H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
What we feel at prayer is God's business, not ours, and we must strive to be totally abandoned to the presence of… — Sheila Cassidy Copy Share Image
Deep attention, the cognitive style traditionally associated with the humanities, is characterized by concentrating on a single object for long periods (say,… — N. Katherine Hayles Copy Share Image
I think the fear of being seen as childish or crazy severely limits our enjoyment of the world around us, thus inducing… — D. Patrick Miller Copy Share Image
it is only on posters and in advertisement pages that Americans have those chubby cheeks, expanding smiles, smooth looks, and faces flushed… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
“Everything is boring, boredom is the other epidemic which is making Europe ripe for decline. Boredom is the end product of each… — Iwan Goll Copy Share Image
“The only thing that consoles us for our miseries is diversion. And yet it is the greatest of our miseries. For it… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
The world is rather shot to pieces [end of World War II - 1945], but the spectators climb out of their caves… — Max Beckmann Copy Share Image
We often bore others when we think we cannot possibly bore them. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
I never go to where's a risk. I'm frightened of dangers down to boredom. — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image