“Writing is a defence against boredom, but it's also a cure for melancholy.” — Bohumil Hrabal Copy Share Image
People with a high tolerance for boredom can get a lot of thinking done. — Stephen King Copy Share Image
What is boredom? It is when there is simultaneously too much and not enough. — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
“...the very, very old fae tended to go through an unhealthy stage of boredom that was often followed by a period of… — E.J. Stevens Copy Share Image
Boredom or discontent is useful to me when I acknowledge it and see clearly my assumption that there's something else I would… — Hugh Prather Copy Share Image
We often brag that we are never bored with ourselves, and are so vain as never to think ourselves bad company. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Most people can't handle boredom. That means they can't stay on one thing until they get good at it. And they wonder… — Curtis Jackson Copy Share Image
You are never tired of painting, because you have to set down not what you know already, but what you have just… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
How was your two-day cruise-to-nowhere? If this had been my honeymoon, I would have come back a virgin. — Sherry Akmar Copy Share Image
There's too much down time making movies. That leads to boredom. And that leads to trouble. — Jeremy Renner Copy Share Image
“There is absolutely no worse death curse than the humdrum daily existence of the living dead.” — Anthon St. Maarten Copy Share Image
Life has been reduced to a series of long periods of boredom in the office punctuated by high-octane "experiences" which you can… — Tom Hodgkinson Copy Share Image
“She pauses several treads from the bottom, listening, waiting; she is again possessed (it seems to be getting worse) by a dream-like… — Michael Cunningham Copy Share Image
Banality is like boredom: bored people are boring people, people who think that things are banal are themselves banal. Interesting people can… — Idries Shah Copy Share Image
Music is a place to take refuge. It's a sanctuary from mediocrity and boredom. It's innocent and it's a place you can… — Lisa Gerrard Copy Share Image
“Going to see plays isn't what you people should do. Try looking at yourselves a little more often and see what gray… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
It's all there-the boredom, the devotion, the horror and even the humor in an industrial war fought on a global scale that… — Barrett Tillman Copy Share Image
The beauty of facing life unprepared is tremendous. Then life has a newness, a youth; then life has a flow and freshness.… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
“Unhappy people often insist on trying to uncover the full magnitude of their unhappiness, or choose to investigate other people's lives as… — Javier Marías Copy Share Image
We are raising a generation that has a woefully small stock of ideas and interests and emotions. It must be amused at… — Robert McCracken Copy Share Image
Interruption, incoherence, surprise are the ordinary conditions of our life. They have even become real needs for many people, whose minds are… — Paul Valery Copy Share Image
The reason we'd stopped was that the buffet car was on fire, that was the reason we stopped. One of the giant… — Bill Bailey Copy Share Image
Right now religion has the romantic aura of the forbidden - Christ is cool. We need to bring it into the schools,… — Katha Pollitt 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
There is no one who has no leisure time at all. The office is not a permanent sanctuary, and Sundays are an… — Siegfried Kracauer Copy Share Image
I am convinced that the human heart hungers for constancy. In forfeiting the sanctity of sex by casual, nondiscriminato ry "making out"… — Elisabeth Elliot Copy Share Image
“The vacancy left by absence of worship is filled by mere killing of time and by boredom, which is directly related to… — Josef Pieper Copy Share Image
“Boredom is the laboratory where new enthusiasms prepare themselves,” — Steven Heighton Copy Share Image
