It is not the simple statement of facts that ushers in freedom; it is the constant repetition of them that has this… — Quentin Crisp Copy Share Image
“Loneliness tortures many if not most of the elderly more intensely and more frequently than it torments many if not most of… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
a generation that cannot endure boredom will be a generation of little men, of men unduly divorced from the slow process of… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
I yearn for intellectual sustenance on vacation but want, of course, to avoid tedium or boredom. I want to read something that… — Max Boot Copy Share Image
Boredom is useful to me when I notice it and think: Oh I'm bored; there must be something else I want to… — Hugh Prather Copy Share Image
Our lives are repetitious shams-every single day a simulacrum of the previous day. So for Man, he is out to pepper his… — Matthew Lotti Copy Share Image
In the ancient recipe, the three antidotes for dullness or boredom are sleep, drink, and travel. It is rather feeble. From sleep… — DH Lawrence Copy Share Image
Years later, when I was working as a trolley wally in a supermarket, I tackled the boredom by talking to the customers… — Romesh Ranganathan Copy Share Image
I think I do have a sort of terrible propensity for boredom and for being bored, even though I am absolutely of… — Geoff Dyer Copy Share Image
“But I am bored by Casanovas, inveterate travelers, nature lovers, and the drug-obsessed, as they speak from the narrowness of their exhaustive… — Mark Greif Copy Share Image
People can insert thoughts into your mind. This is more dangerous for psychic people. Use concentration exercises and read to combat this;… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
While one might laugh at the meaningless boredom of people a decade or two ago, the emptiness has for many now moved… — Rollo May Copy Share Image
“Bethany and I often hook up like this. She texts me at the height of her boredom, unable to sleep, and since… — Penelope Fletcher Copy Share Image
When I Hear SomeOne Says They Are Bored, I Just Want To Slap Them In The Face, If You Are Bored Go… — Chance1900 Copy Share Image
Boredom is a very self-conscious emotion by definition. Interest is not. So you can actually be completely absorbed in something and, at… — Angela Duckworth Copy Share Image
Living, just by itself - what a dirge that is! Life is a classroom and Boredom's the usher, there all the time… — Louis-Ferdinand Celine Copy Share Image
“With nothing meaningful in life, nothing is interesting. Enter boredom. A bored man even longs for longing. He has time to fill,… — Daniel Klein Copy Share Image
Every job in the world has some built-in boredom. No man can stay excited about something every minute he is doing it.… — E. L. Konigsburg Copy Share Image
I rarely deal with boredom these days. I used to spend a lot of time saying I was bored until I realized… — Bethany Mota Copy Share Image
“Boredom doesn't come from lack of activities but rather from your own limitations and ideas of fun. Appropriate behavior, normalcy and perfection… — sofia Copy Share Image
Really, these wizards! You'd think no one had ever had a cold before! Well, what is it?" she asked, hobbling through the… — Diana Wynne Jones Copy Share Image
When I started with music, all I was looking for was to ensure I never had to live the life I grew… — Josh Tillman Copy Share Image
“think I have 'gotten a handle', as you say, on being bored. At first I found the new environment to be most… — John Corwin Copy Share Image
Beneath a mask of selfish tranquility nothing exists except bitterness and boredom. I am one of those whom suffering has made empty… — Cyril Connolly Copy Share Image
“Boredom, like beauty, is in the mind of the beholder. ’There is no such thing as an uninteresting subject,’ said Chesterton. ’The… — George Sheehan Copy Share Image
