“If you want to get away with wielding true, malevolent power, be boring.” — Jon Ronson Copy Share Image
My definition of what makes a journey wholly or partially horrible is boredom. — Martha Gellhorn Copy Share Image
“All the Baptist churches she's ever visited smelled of the same sweat and boredom.” — Sheri Holman Copy Share Image
We come from a long line of people who live to read boring texts – I think it may be why we… — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
Even boredom should be described with gusto. How many things are happening on a day when nothing happens? — Wislawa Szymborska Copy Share Image
People collect boredom, they hoard it, they wallow in it, hoping that one day it'll be of interest and become an effete… — A. A. Gill Copy Share Image
Uncertainty and mystery are energies of life. Don't let them scare you unduly, for they keep boredom at bay and spark creativity. — R I Fitzhenry Copy Share Image
Passions are less mischievous than boredom, for passions tend to diminish and boredom increase. — Jules Amedee Barbey d'Aurevilly Copy Share Image
“Most people, he muses, they're trying to escape from boredom, but I'm trying to get into the thick of boredom.” — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Being boring is just wrong, isn't it? You wouldn't have got anywhere being boring. — Rachel Johnson Copy Share Image
The public is being spoiled by good technical quality photographs in magazines, on television, in the movies, and they have become bored.… — Alexey Brodovitch Copy Share Image
With deep men, as with deep wells, it takes a long time for anything that falls into them to hit bottom. Onlookers,… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Want to snatch a day from the manacles of boredom? Do overgenerous deeds, acts beyond reimbursement. Kindness without compensation. Do a deed… — Max Lucado Copy Share Image
“Anyone can be bored or unfulfilled at virtually any job. How one chooses to respond to boredom is key. Most women are… — Suzanne Venker Copy Share Image
Life is never boring but some people choose to be bored. The concept of boredom entails an inability to use up present… — Wayne Dyer Copy Share Image
There are a lot of self important people who make you believe they're artistes and high on the intelligence quotient and I've… — George Hamilton Copy Share Image
I used, when I was younger, to take my holidays walking. I would cover 25 miles a day, and when the evening… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“It is not uncommon for fighters’ camps to be gloomy. In heavy training, fighters live in dimensions of boredom others do not… — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
Storytelling is an act of cruelty. We are cruel to our characters because to be kind is to invite boredom, and boredom… — Chuck Wendig Copy Share Image
I think the fear of being seen as childish or crazy severely limits our enjoyment of the world around us, thus inducing… — D. Patrick Miller Copy Share Image
Deep attention, the cognitive style traditionally associated with the humanities, is characterized by concentrating on a single object for long periods (say,… — N. Katherine Hayles Copy Share Image
What we feel at prayer is God's business, not ours, and we must strive to be totally abandoned to the presence of… — Sheila Cassidy Copy Share Image
What meaning has such meditation? There is no meaning; there is no utility. But in that meditation there is a movement of… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
“This was very bitter to Gerald, who had never known what boredom was, who had gone from activity to activity, never at… — D.H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
“Running keeps me at a physical peak and sharpens my senses. It makes me touch and see and hear as if for… — George Sheehan Copy Share Image
Solitude is used to teach us how to live with other people. Rage is used to show us the infinite value of… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
If you're afraid to take risks in anything in life, it's just boredom. — Clint Eastwood Copy Share Image
