Books - the best antidote against the marsh-gas of boredom and vacuity — George Steiner Copy Share Image
To write, I think one must sit in one place and be bored. Boredom is a very good state for writers to… — Neel Mukherjee Copy Share Image
Closing your left and right eye to see how an object changes places when you're extremely bored. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Flying to me isn't scary, it's just incredibly boring. And I guess I have a fear of boredom, so in that regard,… — Chuck Klosterman Copy Share Image
And so I ask myself: 'Where are your dreams?' And I shake my head and mutter: 'How the years go by!' And… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
“My mind rebels at stagnation. Give me problems, give me work, give me the most abstruse cryptogram, or the most intricate analysis,… — Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
This is the curse of our age, even the strangest aberrations are no cure for boredom. — Stendhal Copy Share Image
“Unhappy people often insist on trying to uncover the full magnitude of their unhappiness, or choose to investigate other people's lives as… — Javier Marías Copy Share Image
I fell asleep reading a dull book and dreamed I kept on reading, so I awoke from sheer boredom. — Heinrich Heine Copy Share Image
Hours and hours passed, with nothing to do but keep the compass on its course and the plane on a level keel.… — Amy Johnson Copy Share Image
Advertising doesn't cause addictions. But it does create a climate of denial and it contributes mightily to a belief in the quick… — Jean Kilbourne Copy Share Image
Boredom turns a man to sex, a woman to shopping, and it drives newscasters berserk. — Bruce Herschensohn Copy Share Image
Some of the biggest bores I've ever known are men who have been highly successful in business, particularly self-made heads of big… — Malcolm Forbes Copy Share Image
“All great books contain boring portions, and all great lives have contained uninteresting stretches. Imagine a modern American publisher confronted with the… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
I think there is something beautiful in reveling in sadness. The proof is how beautiful sad songs can be. So I don’t… — Joseph Gordon-Levitt Copy Share Image
Love can never really be a great base for marriage because love is fun and play. If you marry someone for love… — Rajneesh 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
When I started training to fight, it was more out of boredom than anything. I was looking for more things to do.… — Paige VanZant 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
