Boredom comes not from reality but from people who are only half alive. — Thomas Dubay Copy Share Image
The first effect of adjusting to other people is that one becomes boring. — Elias Canetti Copy Share Image
Life swings like a pendulum backward and forward between pain and boredom. — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
I don't think anyone wants to do the same thing over and over again. — Eric Bachmann Copy Share Image
No other species anywhere in the world had invented boredom. Perhaps it was boredom, not intelligence, that had propelled them up to… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
The temptation to quit and start over infects every creative process I've ever been in. Frustration and boredom always fuel this self-doubt. — Robert Lopez Copy Share Image
“To drive a woman away, tell her that you are unemployed. To bore her, tell her that you are single.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
Every time I think I've touched bottom as far as boredom is concerned, new vistas of ennui open up. — Margaret Halsey Copy Share Image
Something opens our wings. Something makes boredom and hurt disappear. Someone fills the cup in front of us: We taste only sacredness. — Rumi Copy Share Image
“Jebediah was dragging Alyssa down, chaining her to the boredom and mundaneness of the human realm. She must be set free.” — A.G. Howard Copy Share Image
Something must happen; that is the reason for most human relationships. Something must happen; even servitude in love, in war, ordeath. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
The problem in public life is learning to overcome terror; the problem in married life is learning to overcome boredom. — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share Image
“By the way, I'm not usually attracted to danger," I said. "Up until now I've led a pretty boring life." "Boredom is… — Julie Schumacher Copy Share Image
It is important to grasp that boredom is one of the most common - and undesirable - consequences of 'unicameralism'. Boredom is… — Colin Wilson Copy Share Image
Hear this or not, as you will. Learn it now, or later -- the world has time. Routine, repetition, tedium, monotony, ephemeracy,… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
Only in sex the noise sometimes stops. I say "sometimes". If you have become habitual in sex also, as husbands and wives… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
The great thing is the thing of being able to see things through many points of view. That's enlarging. I mean, it… — Jerry Garcia Copy Share Image
Love alone is not enough. Without imagination, love stales into sentiment, duty, boredom. Relationships fail not because we have stopped loving but… — James Hillman Copy Share Image
Fortunately, our audiences are used to a kind of boredom in the theatre, and if the writer is skillful, he will flatter… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
None will ever be a true Parisian who has not learned to wear a mask of gaiety over his sorrows and one… — Gaston Leroux Copy Share Image
...boredom speaks the language of time, and it is to teach you the most valuable lesson in your life--...the lesson of your… — Joseph Brodsky Copy Share Image
“Boredom is a flight from what is important. Like workaholism and perfectionism, it is a way of distracting yourself from inner experiences.… — Gary Zukav Copy Share Image
“Abaratians are very much about living in the moment; living life because that's what we've got, we've got today, we've got now,… — Clive Barker Copy Share Image
...the number one reason knitters knit is because they are so smart that they need knitting to make boring things interesting. Knitters… — Stephanie Pearl-McPhee Copy Share Image
I’m very interested in sublimation. I love the way Francis Bacon talked about the grin without the cat, the sensation without the… — Cecily Brown Copy Share Image
“At the point in his lecture where he was saying that the representative element in a work of art is always irrelevant,… — Joy Williams Copy Share Image
He doesn't have demons. He's not Batman, he doesn't struggle with inner turmoil. The nature of this character is that he puts… — Chris Evans Copy Share Image
I believe it was Shakespeare, or possibly Howard Cosell, who first observed that marriage is very much like a birthday candle, in… — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
