Down time is where we become ourselves... a hiatus that passes for boredom but is really the quiet moving of the wheels… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
Condition de l'homme: inconstance, ennui, inquie tude. Man's condition. Inconstancy, boredom, anxiety. — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Enjoyment appears at the boundary between boredom and anxiety, when the challenges are just balanced with the person's capacity to act. — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Copy Share Image
“The easiest emotions for an author to evoke from readers are boredom and confusion.” — Raul Ramos y Sanchez Copy Share Image
I hate finality, there is too much uncertainty and boredom affiliated with 'the rest of time.' — Noah Kahan Copy Share Image
Something doing every minute' may be a gesture of despair-or the height of a battle against boredom. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The usual trouble with volunteers is not killing them with overwork, but simply boring them to death. — Harold J. Seymour Copy Share Image
The tendency is to blame boredom on the environment. "This town is really dull" or "What a boring speaker." The particular town… — Wayne Dyer Copy Share Image
It seems to me that all of the evil in life comes from idleness, boredom, and psychic emptiness, but all of that… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
“Boredom will eventually set in... and one day you'll be standing still on an island, with no idea where to go, because… — Kristina Meister Copy Share Image
The world, this palpable world, which we were wont to treat with the boredom and disrespect with which we habitually regard places… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
One mood can be replaced by another, but it is impossible to leave attunement altogether. However, profound boredom brings us as close… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Man finds nothing so intolerable as to be in a state of complete rest, without passions, without occupation, without diversion, without effort.… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
“Boredom is fear's patience. Fear doesn't want to exaggerate. Only on occasion--and fear considers this very important--does it want to know how… — Herta Müller Copy Share Image
Nothing is so stifling as symmetry. Symmetry is boredom, the quintessence of mourning. Despair yawns. There is something more terrible than a… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Economics is a subject profoundly conducive to cliche, resonant with boredom. On few topics is an American audience so practiced in turning… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
The most terrible thing about materialism, even more terrible than its proneness to violence, is its boredom, from which sex alcohol, drugs,… — Malcolm Muggeridge Copy Share Image
“E poi quando si è con Tancredi ci si può forse irritare qualche volta, ma non ci si annoia mai; e questo… — Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa Copy Share Image
Doing anything when you're bored is very very boring. Anyway, doing nothing is the point of being bored. The pleasure of being… — Aidan Chambers Copy Share Image
“I think that the word bored does not get the attention it deserves. We speak of all sorts of terrible things that… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
“Boredom is a symptom of a conditioned and closed mind. If you are bored, you’re doing yourself a tremendous disservice. Open your… — Steve Maraboli Copy Share Image
When I started doing music, it was out of despair and boredom. I got passionate about it, and I felt that it… — Yasmine Hamdan Copy Share Image
“When Boredom comes, it is the time during which discovery is to be made. That is the time during which real effort… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
“Borkin: Ladies and gentlemen, why are you so glum? Sitting there like a jury after it's been sworn in! ... Let's think… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
Ennui, the demon, waited at the threshold of his noiseless refuge, and drove away the stirring hopes and enlivening expectations, which form… — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley Copy Share Image
I grew up in Le Mars, Iowa, and even though it's a great place to grow up and be raised as a… — Paul Rust Copy Share Image
“Life is just so interesting and complicated and beautiful. Every day, every interaction is different. There’s so much floating around that I… — Alejandro Escovedo Copy Share Image
The pendulum oscillates between these two terms: Suffering-that opens a window on the real and is the main condition of the artistic… — Samuel Beckett Copy Share Image
“Essentially, boredom is centered upon time, on the horror of time, on the fear of time, the disclosure of time, the awareness… — Emil Cioran Copy Share Image
Fiddle-dee-dee. War, war, war. This war talk's spoiling all the fun at every party this spring. I get so bored I could… — Vivien Leigh Copy Share Image
Anxiety is essential to the human condition. The confrontation with anxiety can relieve us from boredom, sharpen the sensitivity and assure the… — Rollo May Copy Share Image
“She seems so depressed sometimes by the monotony and boredom of her city life, I thought maybe in this endless grass and… — Robert M. Pirsig Copy Share Image
“Court life for a queen of France at that time was, however, stultifyingly routine. Eleanor found that she was expected to be… — Alison Weir Copy Share Image
Topographically the country is magnificent - and terrifying. Why terrifying? Because nowhere else in the world is the divorce between man and… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
The leaf was darkish, and had prickles on it, But in another country, as he said, Bore a bright golden flow'r, but… — John Milton Copy Share Image
Boredom is not an end-product, is comparatively rather an early stage in life and art. You've got to go by or past… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
Humor can make a serious difference. In the workplace, at home, in all areas of life - looking for a reason to… — Steve Goodier Copy Share Image
Everyone rushes his life on, and suffers from a yearning for the future and a boredom with the present. But that man… — Seneca the Younger 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
“And what is boredom? Perhaps the inability to find meaning, to complete a perception, to arrive at an understanding: partly grasped, but… — Kate Millett Copy Share Image
