Is boredom anything less than the sense of one's faculties slowly dying? — Arthur Helps Copy Share Image
Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves? — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Boredom, not the will, is the mother of change. Necessity is the father. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
To the elitist hedonist, life is the avoidance of boredom and routine. — Timothy Leary Copy Share Image
[On Senator Everett Dirksen:] His great enemy was boredom and he won every engagement. — Mary McGrory Copy Share Image
Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time; serenity, that nothing is. — Thomas Szasz Copy Share Image
Boredom is a vital problem for the moralist, since at least half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“Judas, boredom is such a drag, drag, drag. Writing might be good therapy for me, though.” — Beatrice Sparks Copy Share Image
Clarice has a curious chemical reaction to boredom and the result can be similar to dynamite in the hands of a lunatic. — Anne Morice Copy Share Image
When I think about why I would be a writer, why I should continue to be a writer, it seems to me… — Gish Jen Copy Share Image
When I'm bored I like to decorate my bedroom to look like a classroom so I can fall asleep faster. — Archie Fuentes Copy Share Image
When I was a kid, I used to spend a lot of time at home because of the war. We couldn't go… — Nadine Labaki Copy Share Image
My marriage didn't make me sad, but it didn't make me happy either. My husband and I hardly spoke to each other.… — Marilyn Monroe Copy Share Image
“What an odd creature you are, Bernard, with your constant fear of death! Do you never have a feeling, as I do,… — François Mauriac Copy Share Image
If you love music and it requires hours of practice that can be boring, you can survive the boredom, you're not going… — Robert Greene Copy Share Image
“Just lay down on the beach, with nothing intellectual or constructive to do , other than soaking in the sun, and listening… — Tina Sequeira Copy Share Image
By his very success in inventing labor-saving devices, modern man has manufactured an abyss of boredom that only the privileged classes in… — Lewis Mumford Copy Share Image
The only way to stave off boredom, in a complex domesticated primate like humankind, is to increase one's intelligence. This is not… — Robert Anton Wilson Copy Share Image
They were connoisseurs of boredom. They savoured the various bouquets of the subtly differentiated boredoms which rose from the long, wasted hours… — Angela Carter Copy Share Image
“Boredom is just “What’s the use?” in disguise. And “What’s the use?” is fear, and fear means you are secretly in despair.… — Julia Cameron Copy Share Image
Advertising doesn't cause addictions. But it does create a climate of denial and it contributes mightily to a belief in the quick… — Jean Kilbourne Copy Share Image
“To put this more concretely: If every moment of potential boredom in your life—say, having to wait five minutes in line or… — Cal Newport Copy Share Image
The so-called transcendental meditation is nothing but a psychological tranquilizer. It is nothing—just a tranquilizer. It helps, but it is good for… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
The Western Idea of practice is to acquire a skill. It is very much related to your work ethic, which enjoins us… — Stephen Nachmanovitch 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
...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
“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
“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
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
Depressed, anxious, sad, frightened? Yes. But I've never been bored. — Dustin Hoffman Copy Share Image
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