The opposite of love is indifference, and the opposite of happiness is boredom. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The so-called conscientiousness of the majority of painters is only perfection applied to the art of boring. — Eugene Delacroix Copy Share Image
“holy boredom is good and sufficient reason for the invention of free will. —” — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
The average man gets his living by such depressing devices that boredom becomes a sort of natural state to him. — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
“Boredom is probably more frequent and more tormenting if you do not have sight or hands.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
They bore within their breasts the grief That fame can never heal- That deep, unutterable woe Which none save exiles feel. — William Edmondstoune Aytoun Copy Share Image
Boredom is a blessing when it leads you to wisdom. And boredom is a curse when it leads you to frustration and… — Sri Sri Ravi Shankar Copy Share Image
“He was working hard at increasing his life span. He did it by cultivating boredom.” — Joseph Heller Copy Share Image
True will-power and courage are not on the battlefield, but in everyday conquests over our intertia, laziness, boredom. — Dwight L. Moody Copy Share Image
Only the dead are truly smart, truly cool. Nothing touches them. While I live, however, I side with bumbling suffering crooked life,… — Hakim Bey Copy Share Image
“And what is boredom? Perhaps the inability to find meaning, to complete a perception, to arrive at an understanding: partly grasped, but… — Kate Millett Copy Share Image
“She seems so depressed sometimes by the monotony and boredom of her city life, I thought maybe in this endless grass and… — Robert M. Pirsig Copy Share Image
Anxiety is essential to the human condition. The confrontation with anxiety can relieve us from boredom, sharpen the sensitivity and assure the… — Rollo May Copy Share Image
Humor can make a serious difference. In the workplace, at home, in all areas of life - looking for a reason to… — Steve Goodier Copy Share Image
Everyone rushes his life on, and suffers from a yearning for the future and a boredom with the present. But that man… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
“Court life for a queen of France at that time was, however, stultifyingly routine. Eleanor found that she was expected to be… — Alison Weir Copy Share Image
Topographically the country is magnificent - and terrifying. Why terrifying? Because nowhere else in the world is the divorce between man and… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
Bliss—a-second-by-second joy and gratitude at the gift of being alive, conscious—lies on the other side of crushing, crushing boredom. Pay close attention… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
Boredom is the consciousness of repetition. Because animals cannot remember the past, they cannot feel bored. They cannot remember the past, so… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
At the same time, eroticism in the home requires active engagement and willful intent. It is an ongoing resistance to the message… — Esther Perel Copy Share Image
The Sage of Toronto... spent several decades marveling at the numerous freedoms created by a "global village" instantly and effortlessly accessible to… — Guy Debord Copy Share Image
If I had influence with the good fairy who is supposed to preside over the christening of all children I should ask… — Rachel Carson Copy Share Image
Toska - noun /ˈtō-skə/ - Russian word roughly translated as sadness, melancholia, lugubriousness. "No single word in English renders all the shades… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
A bit of theory as we settle down for lunch: the waiter's treatment of Kitty is actually a kind of sandwich, with… — Jennifer Egan Copy Share Image
If familiar patterns bore you, if normalcy passes before you unnoticed, if you want to create your own footsteps in the earth… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
