Relish being an oddball: Well-behaved, well-adjusted people are hopeless storytellers and, honestly, terribly boring. — Twinkle Khanna Copy Share Image
“and now i am back in the grey world where it tastes like plastic, the monotony is buzzing through my jaws and… — Anna Jae Copy Share Image
Passions are less mischievous than boredom, for passions tend to diminish and boredom increase. — Jules Amedee Barbey d'Aurevilly Copy Share Image
People collect boredom, they hoard it, they wallow in it, hoping that one day it'll be of interest and become an effete… — A. A. Gill Copy Share Image
Uncertainty and mystery are energies of life. Don't let them scare you unduly, for they keep boredom at bay and spark creativity. — R I Fitzhenry Copy Share Image
“Most people, he muses, they're trying to escape from boredom, but I'm trying to get into the thick of boredom.” — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
The concept of boredom entails an inability to use up present moments in a personally fulfilling way. — Wayne Dyer Copy Share Image
“I wanted to reject it all because I was sick of being perfect. I was so bored with normality and dreams of… — J. Merridew Copy Share Image
In many cases when a reader puts a story aside because it 'got boring,' the boredom arose because the writer grew enchanted… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“Getting bored pertains only to the stupid people in this planet of wonders! For the clever, even the simplest things of life… — Mehmet Murat ildan Copy Share Image
To escape boredom, man works either beyond what his usual needs require, or else he invents play, that is, work that is… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
As for America, it is the ideal fruit of all your youthful hopes and reforms. Everybody is fairly decent, respectable, domestic, bourgeois,… — Henry Adams Copy Share Image
“All men, reaching back to Adam in the Garden, plead Ignorance as their defence; when, if we were but honest, we would… — K.W. Jeter Copy Share Image
Listen to your life. See it for the fathomless mystery it is. In the boredom and pain of it, no less than… — Frederick Buechner Copy Share Image
The key is the ability, whether innate or conditioned, to find the other side of the rote, the picayune, the meaningless, the… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
You discover that a bored person is not who you are.Boredom is simply a conditioned energy movement within you.Neither are you an… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
As actors, the thing we have to fight, more than even the business part of making movies, is boredom. — Linda Fiorentino Copy Share Image
“My heart almost died within me; miserable longings strained its chords. How long were the September days! How silent, how lifeless!” — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
There is nothing frightening about an eternal dreamless sleep. Surely it is better than eternal torment in Hell and eternal boredom in… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If whites bored me, it was because they bored themselves. They seemed to get little fun out of life and were desperately… — Ethel Waters Copy Share Image
Escape from boredom is one of the really powerful desires of almost all human beings. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Everyone is a bore to someone. That is unimportant. The thing to avoid is being a bore to oneself. — Gerald Brenan Copy Share Image
“Summer had a way of being full of fun and things to do and plenty of times of doing nothing and feeling… — Sofi Benitez Copy Share Image
The only time I open my books to do homework is when I can't think of anything else to do. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In a world where thrushes sing and willow trees are golden in the spring, boredom should have been included among the seven… — Elizabeth Goudge Copy Share Image
In order to live free and happily you must sacrifice boredom. It is not always an easy sacrifice. — Richard Bach Copy Share Image
No man ever dared to manifest his boredom so insolently as does a Siamese tomcat when he yawns in the face of… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
A utopia cannot, by definition, include boredom, but the 'utopia' we are living in is boring. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Net neutrality: The only two words that promise more boredom in the English language are 'featuring Sting,' — John Oliver Copy Share Image
A bore is someone who persists in holding his own views after we have enlightened him with ours. — Malcolm Forbes Copy Share Image
When we hold back out of laziness, that is when we tie ourselves into knots of boredom. — Walter Annenberg Copy Share Image
What I thought I was going to do over the summer: hang with friends, have a party, go swimming, go to the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It is only a step from boredom to disillusionment, which leads naturally to self-pity, which in turn ends in chaos. — Manly Hall Copy Share Image
Retiring and discovering that you no longer have enough energy to enjoy life and dying a few years out of sheer boredom. — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
This is the curse of our age, that even the strangest aberrations are no cure for boredom. — Stendhal Copy Share Image
They say that adultery is the main thing that can damage a marriage, but it's not. It's boredom. — Barry Cryer Copy Share Image
Levity is the lubricant of a crisis. We resort to jokes, pranks and good natured kidding to relieve tension, stress and boredom. — Wally Schirra Copy Share Image
“Boredom exists, as Frankl (1955) argued, so that “we will escape inactivity and do justice to the meaning of our life” (p. 87).” — Dr. Brian Ogawa Copy Share Image
That awkward moment when it's Spring Break and you're sitting at home on Twitter. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
All sizes of film sets have the same level of excitement and friction and tension and then vast sections of boredom that… — David Hayter Copy Share Image
