“Dullness. Only humans could have invented it. What imaginations they had.” — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Ennui is the disease of hearts without feeling, and of minds without resources. — Madame Roland Copy Share Image
I wanted to get that sense of peace and even boredom that comes with long familiarity. — Debbie Reynolds Copy Share Image
Boredom is not a thing. It's not a feeling or a condition. It is the absence of feelings, things and conditions. — A. A. Gill Copy Share Image
The essence of life is the smile of round female bottoms, under the shadow of cosmic boredom. — Guy de Maupassant 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
The days hardened with cold and boredom like last year's loaves of bread. One began to cut them with blunt knives without… — Bruno Schulz Copy Share Image
Neptune and I decided to do this: thumbs up if you want to know ten least known secrets about me and I… — Guardian/Hommie G Copy Share Image
Squeeze marriage as much as you like, you will never extract anything from it but fun for bachelors and boredom for husbands. — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
As for boredom ... I notice that it leaves me as soon as I am doing something that has got to be done. — John Jay Chapman Copy Share Image
Exploitation and manipulation produce boredom and triviality; they cripple man, and all factors that make man into a psychic cripple turn him… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
Boredom rests upon the nothingness that winds its way through existence; its giddiness, like that which comes from gazing down into an… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
'I'm bored' is a useless thing to say. You live in a great, big, vast world that you've seen none percent of.… — Louis CK Copy Share Image
“He is disappointed because he has solved the problem, and has gone back to the baseline state of boredom and low-level irritation… — Neal Stephenson Copy Share Image
Im bored is a useless thing to say. I mean, you live in a great, big, vast world that you've seen none… — Louis CK Copy Share Image
To write, I think one must sit in one place and be bored. Boredom is a very good state for writers to… — Neel Mukherjee Copy Share Image
The sightless Milton, with his hair Around his placid temples curled; And Shakespeare at his side,-a freight, If clay could think and… — William Wordsworth Copy Share Image
“Enjoyment appears at the boundary between boredom and anxiety, when the challenges are just balanced with the person’s capacity to act. —MIHALY… — Susan Cain Copy Share Image
“And we were in our thirties. Well into the Age of Boredom, when nothing is new. Now, I’m not being self-pitying; it’s… — Phoef Sutton Copy Share Image
The fancies that take their monstrous birth from the spinelessness and boredom of usurped wealth bring in their wake every defect ...… — Jean Lorrain Copy Share Image
The full-grown modern human being who seeks but refuge finds instead boredom and mental dissolution, unless he can be, even in his… — Robert Briffault Copy Share Image
A quarter of America is a dramatic, tense, violent country, exploding with contradictions, full of brutal, physiological vitality, and that is the… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
“We're all of us prospectors up here, eh, Tyler? Scratchin' for that... that one crack in the ground. Never have to scratch… — Curtis Hanson Copy Share Image
The gods were bored and so they created man. Adam was bored because he was alone, so Eve was created. Thus boredom… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
“Kumiko and I would visit their home and have dinner with them twice a month with mechanical regularity. This was a truly… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
The paradox: there can be no pilgrimage without a destination, but the destination is also not the real point of the endeavor.… — Patricia Hampl Copy Share Image
