“She was comfortable enough that she was beginning to suffer from the most chronic condition of slavery— boredom.” — Patricia Briggs Copy Share Image
No society ever seems to have succumbed to boredom. Man has developed an obvious capacity for surviving the pompous reiteration of the… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
“I became bored - that was all. Boredom, which is another name and a frequent disguise for vitality, became the unconscious motive… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
I've written songs since I was like eight or nine, and that was purely out of boredom because I just loved music. — Ruel Copy Share Image
Emptiness and boredom: what a complete understatement. What I felt was complete desolation. Desolation, despair and boredom. — Susanna Kaysen Copy Share Image
“People fear nothing as much as boredom and they will do unimaginable things to make it go away.” — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
And I, stepping from this skin Of old bandages, boredoms, old faces Step to you from the black car of Lethe, Pure… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
Alcohol and marijuana, if used in moderation, plus loud, usually low-class music, make stress and boredom infinitely more bearable. — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“The saying that people who have nothing to do become busybodies is not the only truth. Excitement is a drug, and people… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
If the world is a progressively realized community of interpretation, then either quadruplictity will drink procrastination or, provided that the nothing negates,… — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
Idle people are often bored and bored people, unless they sleep a lot, are cruel. It is not accident that boredom and… — Renata Adler Copy Share Image
“He grabs hold of my wrist. I am shocked by the sensation of his skin warm against mine. 'Take care,' he says,… — Holly Black Copy Share Image
She had been bored all afternoon by Percy Gryce... but she could not ignore him on the morrow, she must follow up… — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
I thrive on the adrenaline of excitement and danger. I just cannot stand boredom on the other side of it. Why am… — Robert Kiyosaki Copy Share Image
Boredom is an evil that is not to be estimated lightly. It can come in the end to real despair. The public… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
Modern man has left the realm of the unknown and the mysterious, and has settled down in the realm of the functional.… — Carlos Castaneda Copy Share Image
I have no tolerance for boredom. I spend so many hours in the office, and I still love it. — Francisco Costa Copy Share Image
“People who understands how to convert their time into useful products do not complain of boredom.” — Sunday Adelaja 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
“Boredom is a lack of crazy. Its a lack of creativity. Invention. Innovation. If you're bored, blame yourself.” — Katelyn S. Irons Copy Share Image
The chief product of an automated society is a widespread and deepening sense of boredom. — C. Northcote Parkinson Copy Share Image
Papa's love did indeed have wondrous properties: it not only compensated for her boredom and anxiety, it was the cause of her… — Vivian Gornick Copy Share Image
Turning fifty ... is like flying: hours of boredom punctuated by moments of sheer terror. — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
Boredom does get you into trouble and we footballers have a lot of time on our hands, and sometimes we fill up… — Adebayo Akinfenwa Copy Share Image
“No child, still less a foetus, has ever mastered the art of small talk, or would ever want to. It’s an adult… — Ian McEwan 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
Hard work never killed a man. Men die of boredom, psychological conflict, and disease. They do not die of hard work. — David Ogilvy Copy Share Image
“What would life be like if they weren’t chasing madmen? Boring and staid, definitely.” — J.T. Ellison 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
Defeat is a thing of weariness, of incoherence, of boredom, and above all futility. — Antoine de Saint-Exupery Copy Share Image
When people look in the mirror, sometimes they see are their shells in the mirror, nothing else. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Feeling bored is a childish attitude. You wouldn't feel so if you don't rely on somebody to change your feeling. — Toba Beta Copy Share Image
Boredom is your mind and body's way of telling you you're not living up to your potential. — Hal Sparks Copy Share Image
Boredom is like a pitiless zooming in on the epidermis of time. Every instant is dilated and magnified like the pores of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Grasp your opportunities, no matter how poor your health; nothing is worse for your health than boredom. — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share Image
I trust that the current knows where it is going. I shall let go, and let it take me where it will.… — Richard Bach Copy Share Image
Anybody that thinks hanging out with Snoop is fun, is cool, you're in for a rude awakening because he is the most… — Tyrus Copy Share Image
“I need anything, anything that will stop me from living in the kind of death the bourgeois eat, the death called comfort.” — Kathy Acker Copy Share Image
The Ancient Mariner seizes the guest at the wedding feast and will not let go until he has told all his story:… — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
Boredom, anger, sadness, or fear are not 'yours,' not personal. They are conditions of the human mind. They come and go. Nothing… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
