Talk to me when you actually want to talk to me. Not when you're bored and want to be entertained. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Sometimes many publishers prefer that you write the same book every time, but I have a low boredom threshold so that isn't… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
Boredom is that awful state of inaction when the very medicine - that is, activity - which could solve it, is seen… — Margaret George Copy Share Image
So eager to die are you? (Zakar) Not particularly, but I’d rather go down clubbing Kessar than from boredom. (Kat) — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
I have come to believe that holy boredom is good and sufficient reason for the invention of free will. — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
I am convinced that boredom is one of the greatest tortures. If I were to imagine Hell, it would be the place… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
Who wants a world in which the guarantee that we shall not die of starvation entails the risk of dying of boredom? — Raoul Vaneigem Copy Share Image
I am unpacking my library. Yes I am. The books are not yet on the shelves, not yet touched by the mild… — Walter Benjamin Copy Share Image
Education must enable young people to effect what they have recognized to be right, despite hardships, despite dangers, despite inner skepticism, despite… — Kurt Hahn Copy Share Image
I am bored with gabbers and their gab; my soul abhors them. . . . Is there any place where there is… — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
And yes, to answer you seriously, I am beginning to be... well, not bored, but tempted; afraid, but tempted. When you've been… — Truman Capote Copy Share Image
“I confess I found it somewhat insipid when I last went…it was all so prosy - so bonnety - so whisty and… — Jude Morgan Copy Share Image
Nobody has any right to find life uninteresting or unrewarding who sees within the sphere of his own activity a wrong he… — Charles William Eliot Copy Share Image
“And what is the most terrible thing about boredom? Why do we rush to dispel it? Because it is a distraction-free state… — Irvin Yalom Copy Share Image
I sat there for three hours and did not feel the time or the boredom of our talk and its foolish disconnection.… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
Why do long marriages occasionally endow their inhabitants with a rare kind of equilibrium otherwise almost unknown in human relations? My guess… — Carolyn Heilbrun Copy Share Image
“You hardly know how boredom feels when you wake up every day to live for something that you truly love.” — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
And one's wandering proved as sterile and pointless as the excitement produced by a close study of pornographic albums. — Bruno Schulz Copy Share Image
While my insides may be rotten, I still like a good reason to kill someone. It has to be either business, personal,… — Derek Landy Copy Share Image
The one sure means of dealing with boredom is to care for someone else, to do something kind and good. — Theodor Haecker Copy Share Image
Just read 66 pages of PerezHilton.com. If I didn't have anal sex on camera for a living, I'd be a total waste… — Asa Akira Copy Share Image
You searched through all my poets, From Sappho through to Auden, I saw the book fall from your hands, As you slowly… — Nick Cave Copy Share Image
I suppose kids probably know less boredom these days - or at least a different kind of boredom. — Charlie Brooker Copy Share Image
The average man gets his living by such depressing devices that boredom becomes a sort of natural state to him. — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
“holy boredom is good and sufficient reason for the invention of free will. —” — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
The so-called conscientiousness of the majority of painters is only perfection applied to the art of boring. — Eugene Delacroix Copy Share Image
They bore within their breasts the grief That fame can never heal- That deep, unutterable woe Which none save exiles feel. — William Edmondstoune Aytoun Copy Share Image
“Boredom is probably more frequent and more tormenting if you do not have sight or hands.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
“He was working hard at increasing his life span. He did it by cultivating boredom.” — Joseph Heller Copy Share Image
Boredom is a blessing when it leads you to wisdom. And boredom is a curse when it leads you to frustration and… — Sri Sri Ravi Shankar Copy Share Image
“It was hard to listen to her all the time without getting to say anything back” — Stephen Chbosky Copy Share Image
“There is absolutely no worse death curse than the humdrum daily existence of the living dead.” — Anthon St. Maarten Copy Share Image
You are never tired of painting, because you have to set down not what you know already, but what you have just… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
How was your two-day cruise-to-nowhere? If this had been my honeymoon, I would have come back a virgin. — Sherry Akmar Copy Share Image
There's too much down time making movies. That leads to boredom. And that leads to trouble. — Jeremy Renner Copy Share Image
We often brag that we are never bored with ourselves, and are so vain as never to think ourselves bad company. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Boredom or discontent is useful to me when I acknowledge it and see clearly my assumption that there's something else I would… — Hugh Prather Copy Share Image
Most people can't handle boredom. That means they can't stay on one thing until they get good at it. And they wonder… — Curtis Jackson Copy Share Image
“Successful people who don't know what to do with their recent success get quickly bored with it.” — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
“...the very, very old fae tended to go through an unhealthy stage of boredom that was often followed by a period of… — E.J. Stevens Copy Share Image