Boredom Quotes · Page 37

I have no problem quitting things, because I have a horror of boredom.

— Laura van den Berg

I’m very interested in sublimation. I love the way Francis Bacon talked about the grin without the cat, the sensation without the…

— Cecily Brown

“I should think a dead language would be rather boring, socially speaking.”

— Sol Luckman

“What is boredom? Endless repetitions, like, for example, Navidson’s corridors and rooms, which are consistently devoid of any Myst-like discoveries thus causing…

— Mark Z. Danielewski's

Without a job all there is to life is boredom and insecurity.

— John Lennon

Passion goes, Boredom remains.

— Coco Chanel

A sure cure for boredom: fast until you are ravenous.

— Mason Cooley

Emptiness and boredom: what a complete understatement. What I felt was complete desolation. Desolation, despair and boredom.

— Susanna Kaysen

The danger of the past was that men became slaves. The danger of the future is that men may become robots. True…

— Erich Fromm

Many books are longer than they seem. They have indeed no end. The boredom that they cause is truly absolute and infinite.

— Novalis

What we feel at prayer is God's business, not ours, and we must strive to be totally abandoned to the presence of…

— Sheila Cassidy

The inexorable boredom that is at the core of life.

— Jacques-Benigne Bossuet

How some of the writers I come across get through their books without dying of boredom is beyond me.

— William Gaddis

I have come to believe that holy boredom is good and sufficient reason for the invention of free will.

— Frank Herbert

I see the children with their boredom and their vacant stares.

— Billy Joel

“To drive a woman away, tell her that you are unemployed. To bore her, tell her that you are single.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

There's no such thing as boredom. There is always something to do.

— Kesha Caldwell

The paradox: there can be no pilgrimage without a destination, but the destination is also not the real point of the endeavor.…

— Patricia Hampl

If nobody hates you, you are doing something boring.

— Abhishek Tiwari

A philistine is habitually bored and looks for things that won't bore him. An artist finds things boring, but is never bored.

— Karl Kraus

The best way to be boring is to include everything.

— Voltaire

For, when you are approaching poverty, you make one discovery which outweighs some of the others. You discover boredom and mean complications…

— George Orwell

Chronic boredom compensated or uncompensated constitutes one of the major psychopathological phenomena in contemporary technotronic society, although it is only recently that…

— Erich Fromm

“This process of assimilation, which takes place in depth, requires a state of relaxation that is becoming rarer and rarer. If sleep…

— Walter Benjamin

For me, the opposite of happiness isn't sadness but boredom.

— Sushant Singh Rajput