My life is a black hole of boredom and despair." "So basically you've been doing homework." "Like I said, black hole. — Kiersten White Copy Share Image
Americans don’t want drama, especially good drama, they just want their boredom killed. — Paddy Chayefsky Copy Share Image
I've only done a handful of things in my life that have stood out. The rest is just broth: mistakes and boredom. — Viv Albertine Copy Share Image
Flying to me isn't scary, it's just incredibly boring. And I guess I have a fear of boredom, so in that regard,… — Chuck Klosterman Copy Share Image
The pilot of the Galilean lake; Two massy keys he bore, of metals twain (The golden opes, the iron shuts amain). — John Milton Copy Share Image
Much is forgiven anyone who relieves the desperate boredom of the working press. — William Weld Copy Share Image
The life of the creative man is lead, directed and controlled by boredom. Avoiding boredom is one of our most important purposes. — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
People who have at least three or four very close friendships are healthier, have higher wellbeing, and are more engaged in their… — Tom Rath Copy Share Image
We shop out of boredom, for release, for excitement, for a sense of achievement, for a sense of control over our unruly… — Tim Gunn Copy Share Image
I’m bored’ is a useless thing to say. I mean, you live in a great, big, vast world that you’ve seen none… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Nothing is so intolerable to man as being fully at rest, without passion, without business, without entertainment, without care. It is then… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Her butler opened it for her. His name was Boredom. She said, 'Boredom, fetch me a plaything.' He said 'Very good ma'am,'… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
I am fairly tired--bored beyond endurance--by the world we live in, and its ideals, and am ready to say so, not violently,… — Henry Adams Copy Share Image
There's something about trying to know when you really need to protect yourself, or else you're not going to get anything done,… — Regina Spektor Copy Share Image
I spent a fair amount of time in Communist Poland when I was young - my wife was from there - and… — Lawrence Osborne Copy Share Image
Many people try to avoid pressure, yet the absence of any tension or pressure usually creates a sense of boredom and the… — Tony Robbins Copy Share Image
“Because people who decline organized leisure activities are deserters from the great common struggle against boredom, and they deserve neither attention nor… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
I wanted to make good records. But my problem is I've got a low boredom threshold, so I wanted it to look… — Adam Ant Copy Share Image
“Katerina Lvovna lived a boring life in the rich house of her father-in-law during the five years of marriage to her unaffectionate… — Nikolai Leskov Copy Share Image
Thanks to Twitter, iPads, BlackBerrys, voice-activated in-dash navigation systems, and a hundred other technologies that offer distraction anywhere, anytime, boredom has loosened… — Walter Kirn Copy Share Image
When I was a child, I wanted to watch things that made me laugh. It's attacking boredom, as simple as that. I… — Dylan Moran Copy Share Image
Training and learning a new skill is all about repetition. With this in mind be careful not to get repetitive to the… — Catherine Cox Copy Share Image
That human life must be some kind of mistake is sufficiently proved by the simple observation that man is a compound of… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
“I never forgot that, because, though I was only a child, something seemed to become clear to me: this is existence as… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
In the morning you were never violently sorry-- you made no resolutions, but if you had overdone it and your heart was… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
The stimulation I get from my phone does not feel like the opposite of boredom to me. It actually feels like a… — Robin Sloan Copy Share Image
“When we became teenagers boredom grew like a moth in a cocoon fighting to escape, and the peace created by our parents… — Scott Thompson Copy Share Image
Longevity is something I never gave a second thought to. I guess it's the shadow of growing up in post WWII, but… — Eric Burdon Copy Share Image
My men have suffered greatly (from boredom), much blood has been shed (by mosquitoes), and I have swung my ax mightily (chopping… — Seth Grahame-Smith Copy Share Image
“If you are filled with your own ways and bored with life, check your relationship with God - your boredom could be… — ANIKOR Daniel Copy Share Image
Every native of every place is a potential tourist, and every tourist is a native of somewhere. Every native everywhere lives a… — Jamaica Kincaid Copy Share Image
For the amoral herd that fears boredom above all else, everything becomes entertainment. Sex and sport, politics and the arts are transformed… — Merold Westphal Copy Share Image
“Everyone is alone. Everyone is empty. People no longer have need of others. You can always find a spare for any talent.… — Urobuchi Gen Copy Share Image
Boredom is what you fight. Constant, ever-present boredom. So you learn to look forward to small things. Sunlight glimpsed through a cloud,… — Valerie Wilson Wesley Copy Share Image
Boredom is nothing but the experience of a paralysis of our productive powers and the sense of unaliveness. Among the evils of… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
The amount of satisfaction you get from life depends largely on your own ingenuity, self-sufficiency, and resourcefulness. People who wait around for… — William C. Menninger Copy Share Image
Many works of the past complete what they announce they are going to do, to our increasing boredom. Certain others plague me… — Philip Guston Copy Share Image
“I don't get it. Basketball is so supremely boring. I can't understand the point of watching ten giants running from one end… — Carter Quinn Copy Share Image
I'm something that I used to be. I'm never where I feel I am, and if I seek myself, I don't know… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
“So life isn't exciting?" continued Gary. "Great. Give me boredom. At least I know where I'm going to eat and sleep tonight.… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
