The existential vacuum manifests itself mainly in a state of boredom. — Viktor E. Frankl Copy Share Image
Airline travel is hours of boredom interrupted by moments of stark terror. — Al Boliska Copy Share Image
God could cause us considerable embarrassment by revealing all the secrets of nature to us: we should not know what to do… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Amusement is a way of boredom-avoidance through external stimulation that fails to exercise our minds. It's mere diversion. — John Ortberg Copy Share Image
Closing your left and right eye to see how an object changes places when you're extremely bored. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Life is what you make it¦If one refuses to use ones imagination..it will be boring. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Boredom and sexual desire are a potent and explosive combination, and people will certainly risk their lives to exit a grey and… — Lawrence Osborne 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
Boredom is... a vital problem for the moralist, since half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“A car is one of the most interesting inventions, but driving is one of the most boring activities.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
“When Boredom comes, it is the time during which discovery is to be made. That is the time during which real effort… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
“Boredom is a symptom of a conditioned and closed mind. If you are bored, you’re doing yourself a tremendous disservice. Open your… — Steve Maraboli Copy Share Image
The pendulum oscillates between these two terms: Suffering-that opens a window on the real and is the main condition of the artistic… — Samuel Beckett Copy Share Image
“Life is just so interesting and complicated and beautiful. Every day, every interaction is different. There’s so much floating around that I… — Alejandro Escovedo Copy Share Image
Fiddle-dee-dee. War, war, war. This war talk's spoiling all the fun at every party this spring. I get so bored I could… — Vivien Leigh Copy Share Image
“Essentially, boredom is centered upon time, on the horror of time, on the fear of time, the disclosure of time, the awareness… — Emil Cioran Copy Share Image
Humor can make a serious difference. In the workplace, at home, in all areas of life - looking for a reason to… — Steve Goodier Copy Share Image
Everyone rushes his life on, and suffers from a yearning for the future and a boredom with the present. But that man… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
“And, you know, I hope you have some fun with this book. Nosh and nibble at the corners or read the mother… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“Nature is interested in only two things—to survive and to reproduce one like itself. Anything you superimpose on that, all the cultural… — U.G. Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
In Madame Bovary Flaubert never allows anything to go on too long; he can suggest years of boredom in a paragraph, capture… — Michael Dirda Copy Share Image
“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
A very elementary exercise in psychology, not to be dignified by the name of psycho-analysis, showed me, on looking at my notebook,… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
There's physical adversity, that if you are someone that likes exercise like I do, I exercise everyday. When you exercise, there's pain… — Robert Greene Copy Share Image
Boredom forces you to ring people you haven’t seen for eighteen years and halfway through the conversation you remember why you left… — Jeremy Clarkson Copy Share Image
“Work and boredom.- Looking for work in order to be paid: in civilized countries today almost all men are at one in… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
I don't think anyone wants to do the same thing over and over again. — Eric Bachmann Copy Share Image
Life swings like a pendulum backward and forward between pain and boredom. — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
I'm pretty disciplined. But your brain needs boredom. It needs routine. — Harris Faulkner Copy Share Image
The function of music is to release us from the boredom of existence. — Sebastian Horsley Copy Share Image
