Hear this or not, as you will. Learn it now, or later -- the world has time. Routine, repetition, tedium, monotony, ephemeracy,… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
Good digestions, the gray monotony of provincial life, and the boredom-ah the soul-destroying boredom-of long days of mild content. — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
It's not just a boring exercise in pushing oil paint around a canvas. It's a way of opening a threshold to an… — Nelson Shanks Copy Share Image
Greedhas no satiation point, since its consummation does not fill the inner emptiness, boredom, loneliness, and depression it is meant to overcome. — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
For boredom speaks the language of time, and it is to teach you the most valuable lesson of your life - the… — Joseph Brodsky Copy Share Image
“All suffer and none should have to. But why not? If suffering makes life seem more real or more abstract, both circumstances… — Moonshine Noire 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
We have come to think that duty should come first. I disagree. Duty should be a by-product. Writing, the creative effort, the… — Brenda Ueland Copy Share Image
Marriage has for women many equivalents of joining a mass movement. It offers them a new purpose in life, a new future… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
I am still amazed at the amount of Christian charity [Wellesley] stuck us all with, a kind of glazed politeness in the… — Nora Ephron Copy Share Image
Boredom is the root of all evil - the despairing refusal to be oneself. — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
Since boredom advances and boredom is the root of all evil, no wonder, then, that the world goes backwards, that evil spreads.… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
Sociopaths are not afraid of very much, except for physical harm and dying - really primitive, basic kinds of fears. The problem… — Martha Stout Copy Share Image
Most of us fill up our lives and end our boredom with our involvement with other people - people we love, people… — Martha Stout 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
I can't stop masturbating, but I don't have to be anywhere for another 7 hours so it's ok. — Asa Akira Copy Share Image
“The pleasure we found in working together made us exceptionally patient; it is much easier to strive for perfection when you are… — Daniel Kahneman 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
Storytelling is an act of cruelty. We are cruel to our characters because to be kind is to invite boredom, and boredom… — Chuck Wendig Copy Share Image
Emptiness and boredom: what an understatement. What I felt was complete desolation. Desolation, despair, and depression. Isn't there some other way to… — Susanna Kaysen Copy Share Image
