People say that jealousy is the greatest enemy of love. They’re wrong. The greatest enemy of love is boredom. — Nicole Kidman Copy Share Image
It is better to be happy for a moment and be burned up with beauty than to live a long time and… — Helen Keller Copy Share Image
Feeling bored is a childish attitude.You wouldn't feel so if you don't relyon somebody to change yourfeeling. — Hemantsmarty Copy Share Image
Man needs air, man needs water, man needs food and man needs adventure also! Adventure is a medicine for the infinite boredom. — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
Good digestions, the gray monotony of provincial life, and the boredom-ah the soul-destroying boredom-of long days of mild content. — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
Don't try to 'fix' the child's boredom - rather, let the child find his or her inner resources. — Julia Cameron Copy Share Image
“I think I was very often bored as a child, but boredom is not what I knew it as—what I knew was… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
They're a redefinition of boredom... the most important thing you need to know about an awards show is where is the nearest… — Stephen Daldry Copy Share Image
Life is never boring but some people choose to be bored. The concept of boredom entails an inability to use up present… — Wayne Dyer Copy Share Image
“Anyone can be bored or unfulfilled at virtually any job. How one chooses to respond to boredom is key. Most women are… — Suzanne Venker Copy Share Image
With deep men, as with deep wells, it takes a long time for anything that falls into them to hit bottom. Onlookers,… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Want to snatch a day from the manacles of boredom? Do overgenerous deeds, acts beyond reimbursement. Kindness without compensation. Do a deed… — Max Lucado Copy Share Image
I never thought, 'I'm going to learn how to be funny now!,' and I'm still surprised when other people think I'm funny.… — Lisa Hanawalt Copy Share Image
The public is being spoiled by good technical quality photographs in magazines, on television, in the movies, and they have become bored.… — Alexey Brodovitch Copy Share Image
For many of us, eating has surprisingly little to do with hunger. We eat out of boredom, for entertainment, to comfort or… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
“You get no writing done at all if you sit at a table with a view. You'd spent the whole time watching… — Mary Stewart Copy Share Image
Desire is always followed by boredom. And only love can defeat boredom. Love with a capital L; we all dream of it. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“When a man plays with your heart it is for one of two reasons: He knows he can or he is undecided.” — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
Greedhas no satiation point, since its consummation does not fill the inner emptiness, boredom, loneliness, and depression it is meant to overcome. — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
A philistine is habitually bored and looks for things that won't bore him. An artist finds things boring, but is never bored. — Karl Kraus Copy Share Image
Virtuous people often revenge themselves for the constraints to which they submit by the boredom which they inspire. — Confucius Copy Share Image
“Representatives of truth. The champions of truth are hardest to find, not when it is dangerous to tell it, but rather when… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
When I think about why I would be a writer, why I should continue to be a writer, it seems to me… — Gish Jen Copy Share Image
Clarice has a curious chemical reaction to boredom and the result can be similar to dynamite in the hands of a lunatic. — Anne Morice Copy Share Image
“Judas, boredom is such a drag, drag, drag. Writing might be good therapy for me, though.” — Beatrice Sparks Copy Share Image
Boredom is a vital problem for the moralist, since at least half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time; serenity, that nothing is. — Thomas Szasz Copy Share Image
[On Senator Everett Dirksen:] His great enemy was boredom and he won every engagement. — Mary McGrory Copy Share Image
Boredom is my worst enemy. It's killed a lot of my friends, but it won't get me. When I get bored, I… — Larry Niven Copy Share Image
Teens think listening to music helps them concentrate. It doesn't. It relieves them of the boredom that concentration on homework induces. — Marilyn vos Savant Copy Share Image
Work is the world's easiest escape from boredom and the only surefire road to success. — Marabel Morgan Copy Share Image
The environment in which I studied was so safe, I thought I would die from the boredom of it. — Howard Jacobson Copy Share Image
“It is the key to modern life. If you are immune to boredom, there is literally nothing you cannot accomplish” — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
There are 6 reasons that a person does anything: Love, faith, greed, boredom, fear... revenge. — Ally Carter Copy Share Image
“Already a connoisseur of boredom, Tony extended his acquaintance with Salisbury's furnished lodgings and the cheap residential hotels of Andover.” — Hilary Spurling Copy Share Image
It seems that boredom is one of the greatest discoveries of our time. If so, there's no question but that he must… — Luchino Visconti Copy Share Image
The worst pair of opposites is boredom and terror. Sometimes your life is a pendulum swing from one to the other. — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
When I was a kid, I used to spend a lot of time at home because of the war. We couldn't go… — Nadine Labaki Copy Share Image
When I'm bored I like to decorate my bedroom to look like a classroom so I can fall asleep faster. — Archie Fuentes Copy Share Image
I'm rather bored by the subject - meaning me. It's a sort of a yoke, but at times you know, a yoke… — Laurence Olivier Copy Share Image