“Anyhow, I had found something out about an unknown privation, and I realized how a general love or craving, before it is… — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
The books in Mo and Meggie's house were stacked under tables, on chairs, in the corners of the rooms. There where books… — Cornelia Funke Copy Share Image
Of course, true love is exceptional - two or three times a century, more or less. The rest of the time there… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Boredom is often the cause of promiscuity, and always its result. — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share Image
We've fallen for the devil's lie. His most basic strategy, the same one he employed with Adam and Eve, is to make… — Randy Alcorn Copy Share Image
For the amoral herd that fears boredom above all else, everything becomes entertainment. Sex and sport, politics and the arts are transformed… — Merold Westphal Copy Share Image
And yes, to answer you seriously, I am beginning to be... well, not bored, but tempted; afraid, but tempted. When you've been… — Truman Capote Copy Share Image
“Katerina Lvovna lived a boring life in the rich house of her father-in-law during the five years of marriage to her unaffectionate… — Nikolai Leskov Copy Share Image
Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves? — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Among the idle rich, boredom is one of the most common causes of unhappiness. People who have difficulty in earning their living… — Andre Maurois Copy Share Image
When you consider how epidemic boredom is in our time, you have to concede that entertaining is a healing art. — Judith Martin Copy Share Image
We define boredom as the pain a person feels when he's doing nothing or something irrelevant, instead of something he wants to… — Paul Goodman Copy Share Image
No society ever seems to have succumbed to boredom. Man has developed an obvious capacity for surviving the pompous reiteration of the… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
I'm bored with it all. Before slipping into a coma. He died 9 days later. — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
“It's the way a man chooses to limit himself that determines his character. A man without habits, consistency, redundancy - and hence… — Luke Rhinehart Copy Share Image
“We did everything possible to keep up the spirits of the men, but it was exceedingly difficult because there was nothing for… — Theodore Roosevelt 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
Learning lines is hard for me because I have the attention span of a six year old. That's why being on planes… — Eddie Redmayne Copy Share Image
“The boring thing about being interesting is that you bore boring people.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
Nature is unfair? So much the better, inequality is the only bearable thing, the monotony of equality can only lead us to… — Francis Picabia Copy Share Image
When you're creating you have to descend to depths. You've just got to go there - to the boredom, the banality, the… — Errollyn Wallen Copy Share Image
Uncertainty and mystery are energies of life. Don't let them scare you unduly, for they keep boredom at bay and spark creativity. — R I Fitzhenry Copy Share Image
