“I should think a dead language would be rather boring, socially speaking.” — Sol Luckman Copy Share Image
The presidency has many problems, but boredom is the least of them. — Richard M. Nixon Copy Share Image
Adrenalin dispels boredom. Run, you sufferers from ennui! Run for your lives! — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
Audience boredom is usually a content failure, not a decoration failure. — Edward Tufte Copy Share Image
We have a world of pleasure to win, and nothing to lose but boredom. — Raoul Vaneigem Copy Share Image
Sometimes I dread loneliness more than bores. Other times, the reverse. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
“The more we are willing to separate from distraction and step into the open arms of boredom, the more writing will get… — Ann Patchett Copy Share Image
The reason why lovers are never bored together is that they are always talking of themselves. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
As soon as you set foot on a yacht you belong to some man, not to yourself, and you die of boredom. — Coco Chanel Copy Share Image
“I am stuck in traffic in a taxicab which is typical and not just of modern life” — Frank O'Hara Copy Share Image
The prospect of being pleased tomorrow will never console me for the boredom of today. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Boredom has an important function, because pushing through it can unleash creativity. — Amy Dickinson Copy Share Image
“His boredom was like a nostalgia for the whole world. He was homesick for everywhere but here.” — Christopher Isherwood Copy Share Image
“Some people in orthodox churches in Africa take poverty as a path that leads to heaven, making christianity look unattractive.” — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
“I know so much pressure is on all of us to waste time and to just trivialize it. There is so much… — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
“...and I was reminded…of the everday boredom of a life in espionage. One is always waiting for someone who does not show… — Charles McCarry Copy Share Image
The capacity of human beings to bore one another seems to be vastly greater than that of any other animal. Some of… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
“Yeah,' said Al. 'I'm very prone to boredom. I gotta go do something. Yeah. That's a fair statement. I'm not the most… — Jon Ronson Copy Share Image
I have always regarded as a stroke of good fortune that I was not born or brought up in a small American… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
“Well," he said, "don't you know that there are souls forever in torment? They must have alternate dream and action, the purest… — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
We're no longer bored - in fact we're petrified of being alone with ourselves getting bored. Yet boredom is the foundation for… — Martin Lindstrom Copy Share Image
I have a very low tolerance for boredom and often think I would have missed out on books entirely if Id grown… — Rick Yancey Copy Share Image
Pop is everything art hasn't been for the last two decades...It springs newborn out of a boredom with the finality and over-saturation… — Robert Indiana Copy Share Image
“TV families and your own are hard to tell apart, except your isn't interrupted every six minutes by commercials and theirs don't… — John Updike 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
There is no such thing on earth as an uninteresting subject; the only thing that can exist is an uninterested person. Nothing… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“I’d say that the quantity of boredom, if boredom is measurable, is much greater today than it once was. Because the old… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
If the world were a paradise of luxury and ease, a land flowing with milk and honey, where every Jack obtained his… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
Boredom has been used as a technique, it is a device. In Zen, boredom is used as a device: you are bored… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
“Presence is the practice of fully inhabiting where you are, with openness and attention, rather than rushing past toward what comes next.… — Ajmal, from the book "Borders of the Inner World Copy Share Image
