“Boredom was at the root of Lazare's unhappiness, an oppressive, unremitting boredom, exuding from everything like the muddy water of a poisoned… — Émile Zola Copy Share Image
The effect of boredom on a large scale in history is underestimated. It is a main cause of revolutions, and would soon… — William Ralph Inge Copy Share Image
The saying, "The Magyar is much too lazy to be bored," is worth thinking about. Only the most subtle and active animals… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Television is god-damned amusement park. Television is a circus, a carnival, a traveling troupe of acrobats, storytellers, dancers, singers, jugglers, sideshow freaks,… — Paddy Chayefsky 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
“ They have the diseases of the leisure class, like bulimia and attention deficit disorder, and for some reason, with all their… — Wendy Wunder Copy Share Image
As a director you have to live and breathe that one story for 8 months completely. I like variety, if I write… — Kanika Dhillon Copy Share Image
The human soul has need of security and also of risk. The fear of violence or of hunger or of any other… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
“And yes, life is mostly boring, and we each go through it feeling ugly or like a failure, but sometimes the sun… — J. Andrew Schrecker Copy Share Image
The beauty of facing life unprepared is tremendous. Then life has a newness, a youth; then life has a flow and freshness.… — Rajneesh 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
When you were a child, where boredom could actually get to be painful. Sociopaths experience that kind of pain in boredom. And… — Martha Stout Copy Share Image
It's all there-the boredom, the devotion, the horror and even the humor in an industrial war fought on a global scale that… — Barrett Tillman Copy Share Image
“Going to see plays isn't what you people should do. Try looking at yourselves a little more often and see what gray… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
“She pauses several treads from the bottom, listening, waiting; she is again possessed (it seems to be getting worse) by a dream-like… — Michael Cunningham Copy Share Image
Music is a place to take refuge. It's a sanctuary from mediocrity and boredom. It's innocent and it's a place you can… — Lisa Gerrard Copy Share Image
Banality is like boredom: bored people are boring people, people who think that things are banal are themselves banal. Interesting people can… — Idries Shah Copy Share Image
This artifact dates back to prehysterical times where humans did nothing but stare at each other all day. That's very boring. So… — The Little Mermaid Copy Share Image
“There are long stretches of the work [Paradise Lost] that are for anyone not theologically minded sheer howling boredom from the point… — Marco Mincoff Copy Share Image
To 'know your place' is a good idea in politics. That is not to say 'stay in your place' or 'hang on… — William Safire 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
It's the boredom that kills you. You read until you're tired of that. You do crossword puzzles until you're tired of that.… — Jack Kevorkian Copy Share Image
“Distraction, rather than being occasional and derivative, becomes perpetual and primary. Rather than being a diversion from the main thing you do,… — Andrew S. Miller Copy Share Image
I suppose you could call me...Soot," said the thing. "Yes...Soot. I have breathed it, lived in it, and eaten it for so… — Garth Nix Copy Share Image
Strange new problems are being reported in the growing generations of children whose mothers were always there, driving them around, helping them… — Betty Friedan Copy Share Image
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