“He exhaled in disgust. “High school is boredom punctuated by humiliation.” — Katie Kennedy Copy Share Image
“And allow me again to assure you that when you've got yourself going, doing your True Will, you won't find you have… — Aleister Crowley Copy Share Image
Boredom dismantles the mind, renders it superficial, out at the seams, saps it from within and dislocates it. — Emile M. Cioran Copy Share Image
“Anyone who has spent time in the company of small children knows that a crushing boredom can unlock great powers of invention.” — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
Why is it that no other species but man gets bored? Under the circumstances in which a man gets bored, a dog… — Walker Percy Copy Share Image
“Boredom is not the enemy of childhood. It’s the birthplace of imagination, persistence, and quiet strength.” — P. Pra. Sandhyaya Copy Share Image
Mid-grade readers don't have short attention spans, they just have low boredom tolerance. — Judith Viorst Copy Share Image
“The snarfblat dates back to pre-hysterical times when humans used to sit around and stare at each other all day. Got very… — Scuttle Copy Share Image
They had not yet attained the stupefying boredom of omnipotence; their experiments did not always succeed. — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
Thanks to Twitter, iPads, BlackBerrys, voice-activated in-dash navigation systems, and a hundred other technologies that offer distraction anywhere, anytime, boredom has loosened… — Walter Kirn Copy Share Image
I am fairly tired--bored beyond endurance--by the world we live in, and its ideals, and am ready to say so, not violently,… — Henry Adams Copy Share Image
Her butler opened it for her. His name was Boredom. She said, 'Boredom, fetch me a plaything.' He said 'Very good ma'am,'… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
There's something about trying to know when you really need to protect yourself, or else you're not going to get anything done,… — Regina Spektor Copy Share Image
I spent a fair amount of time in Communist Poland when I was young - my wife was from there - and… — Lawrence Osborne Copy Share Image
Many people try to avoid pressure, yet the absence of any tension or pressure usually creates a sense of boredom and the… — Tony Robbins Copy Share Image
“Because people who decline organized leisure activities are deserters from the great common struggle against boredom, and they deserve neither attention nor… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
“All men, reaching back to Adam in the Garden, plead Ignorance as their defence; when, if we were but honest, we would… — K.W. Jeter Copy Share Image
We may agree, for example, that our societies must provide greater security for the individual; yet if all we succeed in producing… — Robert Ardrey Copy Share Image
“Ivanov: With a heavy head, with a slothful spirit, exhausted, overstretched, broken, without faith, without love, without a goal, I roam like… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
I know Stephen King is uncompromising on the idea that writers should practise their craft every single day, and it clearly works… — Katrina Onstad Copy Share Image
“Then he looked up, despite all best prior intentions. In four minutes, it would be another hour; a half hour after that… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
America is said to have the highest per capita boredom of any spot on earth! We know that because we have the… — Billy Graham Copy Share Image
“If Z had only known in his perfectly lovely two rooms in Paris what he'd come to know in his single 6x8… — Nathan Englander Copy Share Image
I am still amazed at the amount of Christian charity [Wellesley] stuck us all with, a kind of glazed politeness in the… — Nora Ephron Copy Share Image
Although drugs are immoral and must be kept from the young, thousands of schools pressure parents to give the drug Ritalin to… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
![“I am still amazed at the amount of Christian charity [Wellesley] stuck us all with, a kind of glazed politeness in the face of boredom and stupidity. Tolerance, in the worst sense of the word. How marvelous it would have been to go to a women's college that encouraged impoliteness, that rewarded…” quote by Nora Ephron](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/c17/nora-ephron-1217_aggression_i-am-still-amazed-at-the-amount-of-chris_2240830.jpg)
