“Boredom is often a useful instrument in politics. Never underestimate it.” — Harold Wilson Copy Share Image
The worst pair of opposites is boredom and terror. Sometimes your life is a pendulum swing from one to the other. — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
It seems that boredom is one of the greatest discoveries of our time. If so, there's no question but that he must… — Luchino Visconti Copy Share Image
“Already a connoisseur of boredom, Tony extended his acquaintance with Salisbury's furnished lodgings and the cheap residential hotels of Andover.” — Hilary Spurling Copy Share Image
There are 6 reasons that a person does anything: Love, faith, greed, boredom, fear... revenge. — Ally Carter Copy Share Image
“It is the key to modern life. If you are immune to boredom, there is literally nothing you cannot accomplish” — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
The environment in which I studied was so safe, I thought I would die from the boredom of it. — Howard Jacobson Copy Share Image
Work is the world's easiest escape from boredom and the only surefire road to success. — Marabel Morgan Copy Share Image
A philistine is habitually bored and looks for things that won't bore him. An artist finds things boring, but is never bored. — Karl Kraus Copy Share Image
“Do you not hear the constant victory, in the human footrace of time, slow as fire, sure, and thick and Herculean accumulating… — Pablo Neruda Copy Share Image
Sex is the most natural thing in the world. When I'm in a relationship, I like lots of it. I like to… — Kylie Minogue Copy Share Image
Everyone will recognize that each sound carries with it a tangle of sensations, already well-known and exhausted, which predispose the listener to… — Luigi Russolo Copy Share Image
I finally overcame my phobia, and now I approach flying with a sort of studied boredom - a learned habit, thanks to… — Susan Orlean Copy Share Image
I guess that as life is speeded up and our capacity for concentration is being nibbled away at by all the obvious… — Geoff Dyer Copy Share Image
If life — the craving for which is the very essence of our being — were possessed of any positive intrinsic value,… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
Of course, it is boring to read about boring thing, but it is better to read something that makes you yawn with… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Nothing goes my limited time always does you can make a very good impression access popular report on life, living, and having… — Gayla Leach 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
For myself, I like a universe that, includes much that is unknown and, at the same time, much that is knowable. A… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
“If this turns to friendship, it only means That one of us will suffer. That when we meet after the worst of… — Cyril Wong Copy Share Image
“Soon, what was tedious was everything. 'Beautiful things, they're so tedious! Paintings, they're enough to drive you mad...How right you are, it's… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
In your life’s journey, there will be excitement and fulfillment, boredom and routine, and even the occasional train wreck… But when you… — Pamela Melroy Copy Share Image
He was a volatile mixture of confidence and vulnerability. He could deliver extended monologues on professional matters, then promptly stop in his… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
In some ways, the great danger for this commodified universe is our boredom with it ... There is this sort of dialectic… — McKenzie Wark Copy Share Image
Build pockets of stillness into your life. Meditate. Go for walks. Ride your bike going nowhere in particular. There is a creative… — Maria Popova Copy Share Image
Perhaps the world's second worst crime is boredom. The first is being a bore. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Intellectuals suck, Nathan. They are the most boring people in the world.” — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
“Perhaps boredom was an irrelevant concept for a life as monotonous as hers.” — Naguib Mahfouz Copy Share Image
“Worry is like a rocking chair-it keeps you busy but gets you nowhere.” — Katie Dale Copy Share Image
