At any age we must cherish illusions, consolatory or merely pleasant; in youth, they are omnipresent; in old age we must search… — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
The Western Idea of practice is to acquire a skill. It is very much related to your work ethic, which enjoins us… — Stephen Nachmanovitch Copy Share Image
Despite what I had acchieved, I don't for a moment think I am any braver or better than anyone else. This is… — Roz Savage Copy Share Image
Boredom and sexual desire are a potent and explosive combination, and people will certainly risk their lives to exit a grey and… — Lawrence Osborne Copy Share Image
“This is the kind of paradox, I think, of what it is to be a halfway intelligent American right now, and probably… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
“She, who was bored almost to agony, and who had nothing at all to do, she had not time to think even,… — D.H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
The absence of the will to live is, alas, not sufficient to make one want to die. — Michel Houellebecq Copy Share Image
If there was no New Orleans, America would just be a bunch of free people dying of boredom." -Judy Deck in an… — Chris Rose Copy Share Image
According to Gur's theory of boredom, everything that happens in the world today is because of boredom: love, war, inventions, fake fireplaces… — Etgar Keret Copy Share Image
We are raising a generation that has a woefully small stock of ideas and interests and emotions. It must be amused at… — Robert McCracken Copy Share Image
“Pity" Amir sat on the same old wooden chair Roua still remembers vividly the furniture store where she bought that chair -… — Louis Yako Copy Share Image
“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
It is only a step from boredom to disillusionment, which leads naturally to self-pity, which in turn ends in chaos. — Manly Hall 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
People had been working for so many years to make the world a safe, organized place. Nobody realized how boring it would… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
Net neutrality: The only two words that promise more boredom in the English language are 'featuring Sting,' — John Oliver Copy Share Image
Give me boredom. At least I know where I'm going to eat and sleep tonight. — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Life is never boring but some people choose to be bored. The concept of boredom entails an inability to use up present… — Wayne Dyer Copy Share Image
Boredom is the inner conflict we suffer when we lose desire, when we lack a lacking. — Robert McKee 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
Being bored isn't so boring because being bored brings quiet moments, quiet moments make you think and quiet moments can be the… — Darell Davis Copy Share Image
Boredom, Timothy Duane assured me, is nothing more than anger without passion. — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
