The first effect of adjusting to other people is that one becomes boring. — Elias Canetti Copy Share Image
England is so surrounded by the boredom of conventionalities, that it is all one to them whether music is good or bad,… — Frederic Chopin Copy Share Image
“She would not tell him the truth for some weeks, but she would eventually confess that she had left with him because… — Josiah Bancroft Copy Share Image
A great affliction of all Philistines is that idealities afford them no entertainment, but to escape from boredom they are always in… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
I don't believe in an afterlife, so I don't have to spend my whole life fearing hell, or fearing heaven even more.… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
A month passes by and brings another month. Easy to guess what lies ahead: all of yesterday's boredom. And tomorrow ends up… — C.P. Cavafy Copy Share Image
My definition of what makes a journey wholly or partially horrible is boredom. — Martha Gellhorn Copy Share Image
Dear Brain, Please start being able to tell the difference between hungry and bored. Sincerely, I am getting fat. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“In any first-class work of art, you can find passages that in themselves are extremely boring, but try to cut them out,… — W.H. Auden Copy Share Image
Boredom is the thing that regularly arrives between excitements and episodes of meaning: it is as natural as the tides, and in… — Eric Maisel Copy Share Image
“We just philosophize, complain of boredom, or drink vodka. It's so clear, you see, that if we're to begin living in the… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
That awkward moment when silence fills the room, and the only thing you can hear is the sound of a clock ticking — Anne Dawn Copy Share Image
“Sitting to think of what to write will only set your ass on fire, give you headache, twist your face to look… — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
In love there are no vacations. No such thing. Love has to be lived fully with its boredom and all that. — Marguerite Duras Copy Share Image
Only the dead are truly smart, truly cool. Nothing touches them. While I live, however, I side with bumbling suffering crooked life,… — Hakim Bey Copy Share Image
There is no such thing on earth as an uninteresting subject; the only thing that can exist is an uninterested person. Nothing… — Anonymous 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
Fairness means not to use fraud and trickery in the exchange of commodities and services and the exchange of feelings...Exploitation and manipulation… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
Who does not recall school at least in part as endless dreary hours of boredom punctuated by moments of high anxiety? — Daniel Goleman Copy Share Image
Boredom is the keynote of poverty - of all its indignities, it is perhaps the hardest of all to live with -… — Moss Hart Copy Share Image
“Time is a great deadener; people forget, get bored, grow old, go away.” — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
“Some people in orthodox churches in Africa take poverty as a path that leads to heaven, making christianity look unattractive.” — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
