This is the treason of the artist: a refusal to admit the banality of evil and the terrible boredom of pain. — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
The boredom occasioned by too much restraint is always preferable to that produced by an uncontrolled enthusiasm for a pointless variety. — Osbert Lancaster Copy Share Image
Topographically the country is magnificent - and terrifying. Why terrifying? Because nowhere else in the world is the divorce between man and… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
“A guilty conscience pushed me to try harder—which I did for what seemed like a tremendous amount of wasted time, staring bug-eyed… — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
You searched through all my poets, From Sappho through to Auden, I saw the book fall from your hands, As you slowly… — Nick Cave Copy Share Image
In many cases when a reader puts a story aside because it 'got boring,' the boredom arose because the writer grew enchanted… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Every job in the world has some built-in boredom. No man can stay excited about something every minute he is doing it.… — E. L. Konigsburg Copy Share Image
Fridge full of food, nothing to eat. Wardrobe full of clothes, nothing to wear. Internet full of sites, nothing to go on. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Defeat is a thing of weariness, of incoherence, of boredom, and above all futility. — Antoine de Saint-Exupery Copy Share Image
The tendency is to blame boredom on the environment. "This town is really dull" or "What a boring speaker." The particular town… — Wayne Dyer Copy Share Image
“Very often the test of one's allegiance to a cause or to a people is precisely the willingness to stay the course… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Awareness of time as flying has some advantages; it precludes boredom, for one thing. It matters little that younger people find older… — Germaine Greer Copy Share Image
The word aerobics comes from two Greek words: aero, meaning “ability to,” and bics, meaning “withstand tremendous boredom. — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
It seems to me that all of the evil in life comes from idleness, boredom, and psychic emptiness, but all of that… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
I suppose kids probably know less boredom these days - or at least a different kind of boredom. — Charlie Brooker Copy Share Image
Nothing is more exciting than getting a match. I don't care who you are! It's fun. And there is nothing better for… — Redfoo Copy Share Image
I did 50 takes on Robert Shaw assembling the Greener Gun on 'Jaws.' The shark wasn't working, so I just kept shooting… — Steven Spielberg Copy Share Image
Jonathan Seagull discovered that boredom and fear and anger are the reasons that a gull's life is so short, and with those… — Richard Bach Copy Share Image
Boredom is the keynote of poverty — of all its indignities, it is perhaps the hardest of all to live with —… — Moss Hart Copy Share Image
The presidency has many problems, but boredom is the least of them. — Richard M. Nixon Copy Share Image
