Boredom is your window on the properties of time that one tends to ignore to the likely peril of one's mental equilibrium.… — Joseph Brodsky Copy Share Image
No man should go through life without once experiencing healthy, even bored solitude in the wilderness, finding himself depending solely on himself… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
“Philip Yancey sees our blasé attitude toward the faithfulness of God in the waitstaff At Yellowstone. Even when they are finished their… — Philip Yancey Copy Share Image
It is apparent that nations cannot exist for us. They are the playthings of children, such toys as children break from boredom… — Sherwood Anderson Copy Share Image
“It may very well be that the frotteurist is a helpless victim in the clutches of his obsession, but it’s equally possible… — Jon Ronson Copy Share Image
Of course boredom may lead you to anything. It is boredom sets one sticking golden pins into people, but all that would… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
Our only competition in the theater is boredom, because if I'm bored with a play, if I'm revolted by a play on… — Jerome Lawrence Copy Share Image
“I deal with long blank stretches of empty boredom by laying on my bed, staring at the ceiling, imagining situations in which… — Eva Morgan Copy Share Image
“In any first-class work of art, you can find passages that in themselves are extremely boring, but try to cut them out,… — W.H. Auden Copy Share Image
If you want to live in 'white world,' if you want to experience the stultifying boredom and penetrating ennui that homogeneity can… — Greg Proops Copy Share Image
It was Schopenhauer who made me a philosopher. Real philosophy, I told my appalled colleagues at Auckland, is about sex, death, and… — Julian Young Copy Share Image
Boredom or discontent is useful to me when I acknowledge it and see clearly my assumption that there's something else I would… — Hugh Prather Copy Share Image
Greasy food might not be good for your body, but it does wonders for the soul. A healthy diet may prolong your… — Jessica Zafra Copy Share Image
I keep a list of TikTok ideas on my phone. I have hundreds of ideas. They can come from so many different… — Brad Mondo Copy Share Image
Acting offers me an outlet. Here is the perfect opportunity to spend fleeting moments becoming an entirely different person; to experience a… — Osric Chau Copy Share Image
I remember laughing with relief that the same old adolescent boredom goes on from generation to generation. ...the words took me back… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
“The rush of fear is far better than the defeat of boredom. The high of not knowing what comes next, so much… — Lisa Renee Jones Copy Share Image
There are moments when, faced with our lack of success, I wonder whether we are failures, proud but impotent. One thing reassures… — Jules de Goncourt Copy Share Image
“It's the way a man chooses to limit himself that determines his character. A man without habits, consistency, redundancy - and hence… — Luke Rhinehart Copy Share Image
In a world which furnishes so many employments which are useful, and so many which are amusing, it is our own fault… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
I am tired to death! tired of every thing! I would give the universe for a disposition less difficult to please. Yet,… — Fanny Burney Copy Share Image
“All suffer and none should have to. But why not? If suffering makes life seem more real or more abstract, both circumstances… — Moonshine Noire Copy Share Image
My attitude toward progress has passed from antagonism to boredom. I have long ceased to argue with people who prefer Thursday to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“What matters is entertainment. Eternity takes forever. The infinite expanse of time just does not know when to quit. The dead fear… — Catherynne M. Valente Copy Share Image
“Personally, I have learned to welcome the sensation of boredom when I’m working out because boredom can actually provide opportunities that are… — Hanne Blank Copy Share Image
I don't believe in an afterlife, so I don't have to spend my whole life fearing hell, or fearing heaven even more.… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
Boredom is the keynote of poverty - of all its indignities, it is perhaps the hardest of all to live with -… — Moss Hart Copy Share Image
I can never think of the time I spend idling in railway stations as lost; it's a waiting liberated from the three… — Eric Morecambe Copy Share Image
There are six reasons anyone does anything: Love. Faith. Greed. Boredom. Fear..." he said, ticking them off on his fingers; but he… — Ally Carter Copy Share Image
“In the long sticky hours of boredom, in the lonely, unsupervised, unstructured time, something blooms; it was in those margins that we… — Julie Lythcott-Haims Copy Share Image
“We are a species driven by innovation and creativity. The world is full of information and any number of things to learn… — Ginger Voight Copy Share Image
Usually I avoided college students, whom I considered brutal, wrapped up in themselves, particularly in their youth, in which they found material… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The function of football, soccer, basketball and other passion-sports in modern industrial society is the transference of boredom, frustration, anger and rage… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
We all know how important love is, yet how often is it really emoted or exhibited? What so many sick people in… — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
The essence of boredom is to be found in the obsessive search for novelty. Satisfaction lies in mindful repetition, the discovery of… — George Leonard Copy Share Image
I've always been very keen on Pascal, and what I'm most keen on in Pascal is his emphasis upon human wretchedness. He… — Simon Critchley Copy Share Image
Punk was a protest against work and against boredom. It was a sign of life, a rant, a scream, a rejection of… — Tom Hodgkinson Copy Share Image
In medieval times, if someone displayed the symptoms we now identify as boredom, that person was thought to be committing something called… — Richard Louv Copy Share Image
“...I remember a rainy, depressing afternoon when she remarked 'What a pity we can't make love, there's nothing else to do,' and… — Christopher Isherwood Copy Share Image
“Shabelsky: I'd go into the flames of hell, into the jaws of the crocodile, just so as not to stay here. I… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
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