Perhaps the world's second worst crime is boredom. The first is being a bore. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Boredom is often a useful instrument in politics. Never underestimate it.” — Harold Wilson Copy Share Image
What I thought I was going to do over the summer: hang with friends, have a party, go swimming, go to the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It is only a step from boredom to disillusionment, which leads naturally to self-pity, which in turn ends in chaos. — Manly Hall Copy Share Image
Retiring and discovering that you no longer have enough energy to enjoy life and dying a few years out of sheer boredom. — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
Brain-dead from boredom. I'm led to distraction. Scratching the surface of life. Nothing really happens. — Gotye Copy Share Image
He found himself in habiting the vast, empty plateau where most people live, between boredom and contentment. — Jess Walter Copy Share Image
Boredom is the dream bird that hatches the egg of experience. A rustling in the leaves drives him away. — Walter Benjamin Copy Share Image
Fridge full of food, nothing to eat. Wardrobe full of clothes, nothing to wear. Internet full of sites, nothing to go on. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
For boredom speaks the language of time, and it is to teach you the most valuable lesson of your life - the… — Joseph Brodsky 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
“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
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
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
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
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
Sometimes, though, I feel that pushing books is a whole lot like pushing medicine. Think of books as pills. I have pills… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
“Everything, except boredom, bores me. I’d like, without being calm, to calm down, To take life every day Like a medicine— One… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
Thus I progressed on the surface of life, in the realm of words as it were, never in reality. All those books… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
One thing is certain: the arts keep you alive. They stimulate, encourage, challenge, and, most of all, guarantee a future free from… — Vincent Price Copy Share Image
“Many people have to spend the majority of their lives doing work they don’t care about, for employers who may or may… — Mary Mann Copy Share Image
We have come to think that duty should come first. I disagree. Duty should be a by-product. Writing, the creative effort, the… — Brenda Ueland Copy Share Image
All illegal narcotics are medicinal. Boredom is a disease worse than cancer. Drugs cure it, with little or no side effects if… — Doug Stanhope Copy Share Image
Adolescence was invented in the 19th century to enable middle-class families to keep their children out of sweatshops. But it has degenerated… — Newt Gingrich Copy Share Image
Depressed, anxious, sad, frightened? Yes. But I've never been bored. — Dustin Hoffman Copy Share Image
One must, in one's life, make a choice between boredom and suffering. — Madame de Stael Copy Share Image
“Boredom is a kind reminder that we've shadowed our creativity” — Dr. Jacinta Mpalyenkana, Ph.D, MBA Copy Share Image
