Boredom is the most sublime of all human emotions because it expresses the fact that the human spirit, in a certain sense,… — Giacomo Leopardi Copy Share Image
I love to work in all sorts of different situations. I think you learn a lot, which is why I try not… — Laura Linney Copy Share Image
It is the unknown that excites the ardor of scholars, who, in the known alone, would shrivel up with boredom. — Wallace Stevens Copy Share Image
In some ways, the great danger for this commodified universe is our boredom with it ... There is this sort of dialectic… — McKenzie Wark Copy Share Image
My chronic feelings of emptiness and boredom came from the fact that I was living a life based on my incapacities, which… — Susanna Kaysen Copy Share Image
Boredom is nothing but the experience of a paralysis of our productive powers. — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
I'm something that I used to be. I'm never where I feel I am, and if I seek myself, I don't know… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
Nothing is so stifling as symmetry. Symmetry is boredom, the quintessence of mourning. Despair yawns. There is something more terrible than a… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Boredom lies only with the traveler's limited perception and his failure to explore deeply enough. After a while, I found my perception… — William Least Heat-Moon Copy Share Image
The one sure means of dealing with boredom is to care for someone else, to do something kind and good. — Theodor Haecker Copy Share Image
“Boredom is a flight from what is important. Like workaholism and perfectionism, it is a way of distracting yourself from inner experiences.… — Gary Zukav Copy Share Image
Boredom ... causes us to neglect more duties than does interest. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
“Worry is like a rocking chair-it keeps you busy but gets you nowhere.” — Katie Dale Copy Share Image
She thought of the last couple of years: the boredom, the narrowness of existence, the dearth of anything to look forward to.… — Rosamunde Pilcher Copy Share Image
Novels are forged in passion, demand fidelity and commitment, often drive you to boredom or rage, sleep with you at night. They… — David Leavitt Copy Share Image
I've written songs since I was like eight or nine, and that was purely out of boredom because I just loved music. — Ruel Copy Share Image
As bored and fed up as a grand national jockey reaching for top shelf porn — Sparki Dee Copy Share Image
Men become utilitarian out of fear of the alternative the chaos of tangled or tepid desires, of rootlessness and boredom. — John Carroll Copy Share Image
I wanted to get that sense of peace and even boredom that comes with long familiarity. — Debbie Reynolds Copy Share Image
