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
It is fatal to know too much at the outcome: boredom comes as quickly to the traveler who knows his route as… — Paul Theroux Copy Share Image
Society expects man to be a passive social animal who believes like the People of the Field in "Jurgen" that "to do… — Abraham Myerson 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
I’ve seen excitement, and I’ve seen boredom. And boredom was best. — Terry Pratchett 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
“This ignorance of what to do with time is the number one reason why people get bored so easily when alone with… — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
“After much effort to live up to a glorious standard there came fatigue, wan hope, and boredom. I experienced extreme boredom. I… — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
A bore is someone who persists in holding his own views after we have enlightened him with ours. — Malcolm Forbes Copy Share Image
Profound boredom, drifting here and there in the abysses of our existence like a muffling fog, removes all things and men and… — Martin Heidegger Copy Share Image
Anxiety is essential to the human condition. The confrontation with anxiety can relieve us from boredom, sharpen the sensitivity and assure the… — Rollo May Copy Share Image
Jump out the window if you are the object of passion. Flee it if you feel it. Passion goes, boredom remains. — Coco Chanel Copy Share Image
In a world which furnishes so many employments which are useful, and so many which are amusing, it is our own fault… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
I remember laughing with relief that the same old adolescent boredom goes on from generation to generation. ...the words took me back… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
“While they were dancing, the buoyancy that the champagne had given her left her all at once, and she slumped and felt… — Monica Dickens Copy Share Image
One wonders what would happen in a society in which there were no rules to break. Doubtless everyone would quickly die of… — Susan Howatch Copy Share Image
Down time is where we become ourselves... a hiatus that passes for boredom but is really the quiet moving of the wheels… — Anna Quindlen 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
I have always regarded as a stroke of good fortune that I was not born or brought up in a small American… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
“Life is like a story, when all the resolution is resolved, you heave a sigh of relief.” — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
Neptune and I decided to do this: thumbs up if you want to know ten least known secrets about me and I… — Guardian/Hommie G Copy Share Image
