I was a housewife, I suppose, and luckily I have a very high boredom threshold. — Katharine Gun Copy Share Image
What is boredom? It is when there is simultaneously too much and not enough. — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
If I have to spend prolonged periods of time in a trailer, I go mad. Stuck in a metal box doing nothing,… — Romola Garai Copy Share Image
Flying is hours and hours of boredom sprinkled with a few seconds of sheer terror. — Pappy Boyington Copy Share Image
I have the impression that if he didn't complicate his life so needlessly, he would die of boredom. — Boris Pasternak Copy Share Image
I love heights. I love speed. Im on the verge of being a pyromaniac. Maybe my phobia is boredom. — Erin Wasson Copy Share Image
Only now do I understand the war against boredom, the lost cause of empty hours, of empty days and nights. — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
What strange impulse is it which induces otherwise truthful people to say they like music when they do not, and thus expose… — Agnes Repplier Copy Share Image
I can't keep myself from playing roles. The emotionless decadent, looking for diversion from boredom, is a favorite. — Ellen Willis Copy Share Image
“One who gossips usually carries boredom in one hand and bitterness in the other.” — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image
Our lives are repetitious shams-every single day a simulacrum of the previous day. So for Man, he is out to pepper his… — Matthew Lotti Copy Share Image
Years later, when I was working as a trolley wally in a supermarket, I tackled the boredom by talking to the customers… — Romesh Ranganathan Copy Share Image
a generation that cannot endure boredom will be a generation of little men, of men unduly divorced from the slow process of… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
I yearn for intellectual sustenance on vacation but want, of course, to avoid tedium or boredom. I want to read something that… — Max Boot Copy Share Image
While one might laugh at the meaningless boredom of people a decade or two ago, the emptiness has for many now moved… — Rollo May Copy Share Image
“Bethany and I often hook up like this. She texts me at the height of her boredom, unable to sleep, and since… — Penelope Fletcher Copy Share Image
I think I do have a sort of terrible propensity for boredom and for being bored, even though I am absolutely of… — Geoff Dyer Copy Share Image
“But I am bored by Casanovas, inveterate travelers, nature lovers, and the drug-obsessed, as they speak from the narrowness of their exhaustive… — Mark Greif Copy Share Image
Your body does not eliminate poisons by knowing their names. To try to control fear or depression or boredom by calling them… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When I started training to fight, it was more out of boredom than anything. I was looking for more things to do.… — Paige VanZant Copy Share Image
The educated man pictures a horde of submen, wanting only a day's liberty to loot his house, burn his books, and set… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Marriage has for women many equivalents of joining a mass movement. It offers them a new purpose in life, a new future… — Eric Hoffer 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
“Those diversions sparked her life with momentary excitement. Without them, Charis felt she would be driven mad by the unrelenting sameness of… — Stephen R. Lawhead Copy Share Image
“His hatred for all was so intense that it should extinguish the very love from which it was conceived. And thus, he… — Ashim Shanker Copy Share Image
It's not hard to understand why an accomplished director like Gus Van Sant (whose most recent success, Good Will Hunting, gave him… — James Berardinelli Copy Share Image
