Boredom comes not from reality but from people who are only half alive. — Thomas Dubay Copy Share Image
The first effect of adjusting to other people is that one becomes boring. — Elias Canetti Copy Share Image
A typical day is full of anxiety and boredom. Flow experiences provide the flashes of intense living against this dull background. — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Copy Share Image
My heart swings back and forth between the need for routine and the urge to run. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“…Boredom [is] a moral failing, the mark of a mind insufficiently stocked to occupy itself.” — Nancy Kress Copy Share Image
Life, friends, is boring. We must not say so. After all, the sky flashes, the great sea yearns, we ourselves flash and… — John Berryman Copy Share Image
That awkward moment when silence fills the room, and the only thing you can hear is the sound of a clock ticking — Anne Dawn Copy Share Image
Although I did admire David Foster Wallace's final unfinished novel about boredom, I'm no DFW, and I want my books to be… — Chris Pavone Copy Share Image
Variety is more than a means of avoiding boredom, since art is more than an entertainment of the senses. — Rudolf Arnheim Copy Share Image
“The pleasure we found in working together made us exceptionally patient; it is much easier to strive for perfection when you are… — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share Image
Topographically the country is magnificent - and terrifying. Why terrifying? Because nowhere else in the world is the divorce between man and… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
“Court life for a queen of France at that time was, however, stultifyingly routine. Eleanor found that she was expected to be… — Alison Weir Copy Share Image
Boredom is not an end-product, is comparatively rather an early stage in life and art. You've got to go by or past… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
The leaf was darkish, and had prickles on it, But in another country, as he said, Bore a bright golden flow'r, but… — John Milton Copy Share Image
“She seems so depressed sometimes by the monotony and boredom of her city life, I thought maybe in this endless grass and… — Robert M. Pirsig Copy Share Image
Anxiety is essential to the human condition. The confrontation with anxiety can relieve us from boredom, sharpen the sensitivity and assure the… — Rollo May Copy Share Image
Only the dead are truly smart, truly cool. Nothing touches them. While I live, however, I side with bumbling suffering crooked life,… — Hakim Bey Copy Share Image
“And what is boredom? Perhaps the inability to find meaning, to complete a perception, to arrive at an understanding: partly grasped, but… — Kate Millett Copy Share Image
I realize this is blasphemy, but a few weeks ago I tried to watch a NASCAR race being run at Talladega. I… — Brock Yates 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
“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
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
Any country where I am not bored is a country that teaches me nothing. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
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