Boring people don't know they're boring. That's the problem with boring people. — Lynne Tillman Copy Share Image
Boredom ... causes us to neglect more duties than does interest. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
“Life wore a man out, wore a man thin. Tomorrow would be a better day.” — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
Boredom is the root of all evil - the despairing refusal to be oneself. — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
One wonders what would happen in a society in which there were no rules to break. Doubtless everyone would quickly die of… — Susan Howatch Copy Share Image
Boredom, anger, sadness, or fear are not 'yours,' not personal. They are conditions of the human mind. They come and go. Nothing… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
The Ancient Mariner seizes the guest at the wedding feast and will not let go until he has told all his story:… — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
“I need anything, anything that will stop me from living in the kind of death the bourgeois eat, the death called comfort.” — Kathy Acker Copy Share Image
Anybody that thinks hanging out with Snoop is fun, is cool, you're in for a rude awakening because he is the most… — Tyrus Copy Share Image
I trust that the current knows where it is going. I shall let go, and let it take me where it will.… — Richard Bach Copy Share Image
Grasp your opportunities, no matter how poor your health; nothing is worse for your health than boredom. — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share Image
Boredom is like a pitiless zooming in on the epidermis of time. Every instant is dilated and magnified like the pores of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Doing anything when you're bored is very very boring. Anyway, doing nothing is the point of being bored. The pleasure of being… — Aidan Chambers Copy Share Image
“Boredom is fear's patience. Fear doesn't want to exaggerate. Only on occasion--and fear considers this very important--does it want to know how… — Herta Müller Copy Share Image
Nothing is so stifling as symmetry. Symmetry is boredom, the quintessence of mourning. Despair yawns. There is something more terrible than a… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
One mood can be replaced by another, but it is impossible to leave attunement altogether. However, profound boredom brings us as close… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Man finds nothing so intolerable as to be in a state of complete rest, without passions, without occupation, without diversion, without effort.… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
I have always regarded as a stroke of good fortune that I was not born or brought up in a small American… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
“Yeah,' said Al. 'I'm very prone to boredom. I gotta go do something. Yeah. That's a fair statement. I'm not the most… — Jon Ronson Copy Share Image
The capacity of human beings to bore one another seems to be vastly greater than that of any other animal. Some of… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
Build pockets of stillness into your life. Meditate. Go for walks. Ride your bike going nowhere in particular. There is a creative… — Maria Popova Copy Share Image
In some ways, the great danger for this commodified universe is our boredom with it ... There is this sort of dialectic… — McKenzie Wark Copy Share Image
“A guilty conscience pushed me to try harder—which I did for what seemed like a tremendous amount of wasted time, staring bug-eyed… — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
“This is the kind of paradox, I think, of what it is to be a halfway intelligent American right now, and probably… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
“While they were dancing, the buoyancy that the champagne had given her left her all at once, and she slumped and felt… — Monica Dickens Copy Share Image
Then I felt that every inflection of my voice, every word in my mouth, was a lie, a play whose sole purpose… — Ingmar Bergman Copy Share Image
Very often, I confess, the teller of dreams bores me. His dream could perhaps interest me if it were frankly worked on.… — Gaston Bachelard Copy Share Image
“She would not tell him the truth for some weeks, but she would eventually confess that she had left with him because… — Josiah Bancroft Copy Share Image
“The boring thing about being interesting is that you bore boring people.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
“Dullness. Only humans could have invented it. What imaginations they had.” — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
