The truth is that everyone is bored, and devotes himself to cultivating habits. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
That which is repeated too often becomes insipid and tedious. — Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux Copy Share Image
From every Englishman emanates a kind of gas, the deadly choke-damp of boredom. — Heinrich Heine Copy Share Image
“Rain's pouring and it's too cold. All people bored and I even accord What to do but spell a tale told: So… — Ana Claudia Antunes 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
This ennui, for which we Saxons had no name,--this word of France, has got a terrific significance. It shortens life, and bereaves… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Fidgeting and boredom are the symptoms of fear of emptiness, which we try to fill up with whatever we can lay our… — Stephen Nachmanovitch Copy Share Image
“A lot of impulsive mistakes are made by people who simply aren’t willing to stay bored a little longer.” — Paul Aurandt Copy Share Image
“They sentenced me to twenty years of boredom...for trying to change the system from within” — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
I don't like being in one place too long. Five days just about does it for me because I have a very… — Jackie Collins Copy Share Image
If you're bored it's up to you to change your mood, nobody else can drag you out of it.. — Sachithra Copy Share Image
It is apparent that nations cannot exist for us. They are the playthings of children, such toys as children break from boredom… — Sherwood Anderson Copy Share Image
Boredom is your window on the properties of time that one tends to ignore to the likely peril of one's mental equilibrium.… — Joseph Brodsky Copy Share Image
People who have at least three or four very close friendships are healthier, have higher wellbeing, and are more engaged in their… — Tom Rath Copy Share Image
We shop out of boredom, for release, for excitement, for a sense of achievement, for a sense of control over our unruly… — Tim Gunn Copy Share Image
I’m bored’ is a useless thing to say. I mean, you live in a great, big, vast world that you’ve seen none… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Nothing is so intolerable to man as being fully at rest, without passion, without business, without entertainment, without care. It is then… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
I wanted to make good records. But my problem is I've got a low boredom threshold, so I wanted it to look… — Adam Ant Copy Share Image
“Katerina Lvovna lived a boring life in the rich house of her father-in-law during the five years of marriage to her unaffectionate… — Nikolai Leskov Copy Share Image
Sociopaths are not inhibited by the notion that it's wrong to be addicted, or wrong to buy illegal drugs. Also, drinking or… — Martha Stout Copy Share Image
Boredom reigns on all levels. The rain is a welcome change. I have seen the pond swell and the creek surge. I… — Mary E. Pearson Copy Share Image
He resented such questions as people do who have thought a great deal about them. The superficial and slipshod have ready answers,… — Peter De Vries Copy Share Image
One of the deep fundamentals of poetry is the recurrence of sounds, syllables, words, phrases, lines, and stanzas. Repetition can be one… — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
“Unfortunately, psychology has not adequately come to grips with the difficult subject of entertainment (or with its opposite, boredom). Despite a few… — Thomas Gilovich Copy Share Image
The Garden En robe de parade. - Samain Like a skein of loose silk blown against a wall She walks by the… — Ezra Pound Copy Share Image
I have studiously tried to avoid ever using the word 'madness' to describe my condition. Now and again, the word slips out,… — Elizabeth Wurtzel Copy Share Image
This was solidarity. The debutante having her toenails pedicured - the housewife buying carrots from a pushcart - the bookkeeper who had… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
