Only the dead are truly smart, truly cool. Nothing touches them. While I live, however, I side with bumbling suffering crooked life,… — Hakim Bey Copy Share Image
Love alone is not enough. Without imagination, love stales into sentiment, duty, boredom. Relationships fail not because we have stopped loving but… — James Hillman Copy Share Image
The great thing is the thing of being able to see things through many points of view. That's enlarging. I mean, it… — Jerry Garcia Copy Share Image
Only in sex the noise sometimes stops. I say "sometimes". If you have become habitual in sex also, as husbands and wives… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
“By the way, I'm not usually attracted to danger," I said. "Up until now I've led a pretty boring life." "Boredom is… — Julie Schumacher Copy Share Image
“Everyone thinks that being in a war is nothing but non-stop action and fighting. I thought that too before I came here.… — Bryan A. Wood Copy Share Image
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
It is important to grasp that boredom is one of the most common - and undesirable - consequences of 'unicameralism'. Boredom is… — Colin Wilson Copy Share Image
TV is no longer the best alternative to boredom. To kids not old enough for Snapchat, music is the best alternative to… — Mark Cuban 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
Classical music is far from boring - it has all the blood, energy, the sinister dark side, rhythm that rock music has,… — Yuja Wang Copy Share Image
One of the worst forms of mental suffering is boredom, not knowing what to do with oneself and one's life. Even if… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
I've never been bored in my life, man. I've never been bored or lonely. Are you kidding? No way! I'm an orchestrator,… — Quincy Jones Copy Share Image
I am tired of clinging. Though I cannot see it with my eyes, I trust that the current knows where it is… — Richard Bach Copy Share Image
A person with friends need never be bored. There is always more to fathom and enjoy in the complexity of others, and… — Stephanie Mills Copy Share Image
Man's need for art is absolutely primordial, as strong as, and perhaps stronger than, our need for bread. Without bread, we die… — Jean Dubuffet Copy Share Image
Be politically correct, but please don't bother other people with conversation about being politically correct, because that's the end of everything. You… — Karl Lagerfeld Copy Share Image
None will ever be a true Parisian who has not learned to wear a mask of gaiety over his sorrows and one… — Gaston Leroux Copy Share Image
German writings attain popularity through a great name, or through personalities, or through good connections, or through effort,or through moderate immorality, or… — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Copy Share Image
Fortunately, our audiences are used to a kind of boredom in the theatre, and if the writer is skillful, he will flatter… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
“Most people, they’re trying to escape from boredom, but I’m trying to get into the thick of boredom. That’s why I’m not… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Were it not for the amusement of our books, we should be moped to death for want of occupation. It rains incessantly.… — Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sevigne Copy Share Image
Boredom is a sign of satisfied ignorance, blunted apprehension, crass sympathies, dull understanding, feeble powers of attention, and irreclaimable weakness of character. — James Bridie Copy Share Image
“You just need to show a little initiative and you could have my job someday.” Hooray! At least I’d have a window… — Robert Dugoni Copy Share Image
We know what boredom is: it is a dull Impatience or a fierce velleity, A champing wish, stalled by our lassitude, To… — Richard Wilbur Copy Share Image
“The stirring incidents of the last few months had spoiled her; the monotony of the last few weeks had bored her; and… — E.D.E.N. Southworth Copy Share Image
Who has that absolute trust, to fling yourself into mortality, to let it do with you as it will, with all the… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
There happen to be whole large parts of adult American life that nobody talks about in commencement speeches. One such part involves… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
People sometimes tell me that they prefer barbarism to civilisation. I doubt if they have given it a long enough trial. Like… — Kenneth Clark Copy Share Image
My boredom threshold is low at the best of times but I have spent more time being slowly and excruciatingly bored by… — Jill Tweedie Copy Share Image
“Didn't you tell me smoking ruined your stamina as a boxer? ... Ruined is a strong word, I'd say. ... It helps… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
The few love affairs which had come my way had been rather silly and sordid. They had not revealed the possibilities of… — Aleister Crowley Copy Share Image
I've never been someone who's very prone to boredom. I don't know, boredom seems like something you should grow out of at… — Jason Isbell Copy Share Image
Among the idle rich, boredom is one of the most common causes of unhappiness. People who have difficulty in earning their living… — Andre Maurois Copy Share Image
In other centuries, human beings wanted to be saved, or improved, or freed, or educated. But in our century, they want to… — Michael Crichton Copy Share Image
When you're creating you have to descend to depths. You've just got to go there - to the boredom, the banality, the… — Errollyn Wallen Copy Share Image
“If love of money is the root of all evil, then having money is the root of all boredom. When you can… — Neal Shusterman Copy Share Image
'Fowl Space' was a lovechild of boredom. While in class, two of the developers started passing designs back and forth. Somewhere in… — Rob Manuel Copy Share Image
“...childhood boredom is a special kind of boredom. It is a boredom full of dreams, a sort of projection into another place,… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
Life has been reduced to a series of long periods of boredom in the office punctuated by high-octane "experiences" which you can… — Tom Hodgkinson Copy Share Image
