Boredom Quotes · Page 23

If you're afraid to take risks in anything in life, it's just boredom.

— Clint Eastwood

Work spares us from three evils: boredom, vice, and need

— Voltaire

Boredom provides a stronger inclination to write than anything.

— Vikram Seth

Life without a taste of irrational, of crazy, is a boring book.

— Mariana Fulger

If my room is clean, it means that my internet is not working.

— Anonymous

My definition of what makes a journey wholly or partially horrible is boredom.

— Martha Gellhorn

“If you want to get away with wielding true, malevolent power, be boring.”

— Jon Ronson

Remember—boredom is the enemy, not some abstract "failure.

— Anonymous

When you consider how epidemic boredom is in our time, you have to concede that entertaining is a healing art.

— Judith Martin

Boredom and sexual desire are a potent and explosive combination, and people will certainly risk their lives to exit a grey and…

— Lawrence Osborne

Boredom is... a vital problem for the moralist, since half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it.

— Bertrand Russell

“A car is one of the most interesting inventions, but driving is one of the most boring activities.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

My heart swings back and forth between the need for routine and the urge to run.

— Anonymous

A typical day is full of anxiety and boredom. Flow experiences provide the flashes of intense living against this dull background.

— Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

“…Boredom [is] a moral failing, the mark of a mind insufficiently stocked to occupy itself.”

— Nancy Kress

That awkward moment when silence fills the room, and the only thing you can hear is the sound of a clock ticking

— Anne Dawn

Boredom is the most sublime of all human emotions because it expresses the fact that the human spirit, in a certain sense,…

— Giacomo Leopardi

“Instead of kneading our habits into irreversible certainties and fidgeting in the boredom of our comforts, let us fantasy and creativity come…

— Erik Pevernagie

As a reader, I have a very short attention span and a low tolerance for boredom, and I find that comes in…

— John Scalzi

A lot of the things that bore adults don't bore children, and people forget that. In some ways, boredom is a projection…

— Alissa Quart

Every brand builder will face a million temptations to obscure, dilute, or confuse his or her brand message. These temptations fall under…

— David F. D'Alessandro

“My correspondence has certainly the charm of variety, and the humbler are usually the more interesting. This looks like one of those…

— Arthur Conan Doyle

According to Gur's theory of boredom, everything that happens in the world today is because of boredom: love, war, inventions, fake fireplaces…

— Etgar Keret

“Only by himself could he feel himself, only by himself he could tell himself 'I am me'. Before others, among the busy…

— Miguel de Unamuno

I know Stephen King is uncompromising on the idea that writers should practise their craft every single day, and it clearly works…

— Katrina Onstad

Some writers are writing one great, big book and just taking all these different avenues towards it. They might seem on the…

— Chang-Rae Lee

Boredom has to be the most life sapping, mental disease you can be afflicted with.The most accurate definition of boredom I have…

— Bob Proctor

I am still amazed at the amount of Christian charity [Wellesley] stuck us all with, a kind of glazed politeness in the…

— Nora Ephron

Although drugs are immoral and must be kept from the young, thousands of schools pressure parents to give the drug Ritalin to…

— Gore Vidal

“The vacancy left by absence of worship is filled by mere killing of time and by boredom, which is directly related to…

— Josef Pieper

We are raising a generation that has a woefully small stock of ideas and interests and emotions. It must be amused at…

— Robert McCracken

Interruption, incoherence, surprise are the ordinary conditions of our life. They have even become real needs for many people, whose minds are…

— Paul Valery

The inexorable boredom that is at the core of life.

— Jacques-Benigne Bossuet

I was a housewife, I suppose, and luckily I have a very high boredom threshold.

— Katharine Gun

“When you feel bored, pump your adrenaline!”

— Toba Beta

History is the same thing over and over again.

— Woody Allen

“I write at high speed because boredom is bad for my health.”

— Noêl Coward

Uniformity is not very interesting or sustainable - it's boring.

— Sasha Velour

“To remain lying on thorns (kanta) is called boredom (kantado).”

— Dada Bhagwan

“Boredom is merely a symptom of an apathetic soul.”

— Tim