“I don't want a well-ordered life… I would die from boredom in a fortnight.” — Suzanne Enoch Copy Share Image
Perhaps the world's second worst crime is boredom. The first is being a bore. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I suppose kids probably know less boredom these days - or at least a different kind of boredom. — Charlie Brooker Copy Share Image
You searched through all my poets, From Sappho through to Auden, I saw the book fall from your hands, As you slowly… — Nick Cave Copy Share Image
Just read 66 pages of PerezHilton.com. If I didn't have anal sex on camera for a living, I'd be a total waste… — Asa Akira Copy Share Image
The one sure means of dealing with boredom is to care for someone else, to do something kind and good. — Theodor Haecker Copy Share Image
While my insides may be rotten, I still like a good reason to kill someone. It has to be either business, personal,… — Derek Landy Copy Share Image
And one's wandering proved as sterile and pointless as the excitement produced by a close study of pornographic albums. — Bruno Schulz Copy Share Image
Who wants a world in which the guarantee that we shall not die of starvation entails the risk of dying of boredom? — Raoul Vaneigem Copy Share Image
I am unpacking my library. Yes I am. The books are not yet on the shelves, not yet touched by the mild… — Walter Benjamin Copy Share Image
It's the boredom that kills you. You read until you're tired of that. You do crossword puzzles until you're tired of that.… — Jack Kevorkian Copy Share Image
The amount of satisfaction you get from life depends largely on your own ingenuity, self-sufficiency, and resourcefulness. People who wait around for… — William C. Menninger Copy Share Image
Many works of the past complete what they announce they are going to do, to our increasing boredom. Certain others plague me… — Philip Guston Copy Share Image
“I don't get it. Basketball is so supremely boring. I can't understand the point of watching ten giants running from one end… — Carter Quinn Copy Share Image
Boredom is what you fight. Constant, ever-present boredom. So you learn to look forward to small things. Sunlight glimpsed through a cloud,… — Valerie Wilson Wesley Copy Share Image
“Everyone is alone. Everyone is empty. People no longer have need of others. You can always find a spare for any talent.… — Urobuchi Gen Copy Share Image
Boredom is nothing but the experience of a paralysis of our productive powers and the sense of unaliveness. Among the evils of… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
Every native of every place is a potential tourist, and every tourist is a native of somewhere. Every native everywhere lives a… — Jamaica Kincaid Copy Share Image
For, when you are approaching poverty, you make one discovery which outweighs some of the others. You discover boredom and mean complications… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Marriage has for women many equivalents of joining a mass movement. It offers them a new purpose in life, a new future… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
“Those diversions sparked her life with momentary excitement. Without them, Charis felt she would be driven mad by the unrelenting sameness of… — Stephen R. Lawhead Copy Share Image
Awareness of time as flying has some advantages; it precludes boredom, for one thing. It matters little that younger people find older… — Germaine Greer Copy Share Image
My CIA colleagues were smart, dedicated, funny, and creative. Yes, there was sometimes stifling bureaucracy, boredom, colleagues who never should have been… — Valerie Plame Copy Share Image
It is remarkable, in cats, that the outer life they reveal to their master is one of perpetual confident boredom. All they… — Robley Wilson Copy Share Image
“The joy of life comes from our encounters with new experiences, and hence there is no greater joy than to have an… — Kate Anderson Copy Share Image
Novels are forged in passion, demand fidelity and commitment, often drive you to boredom or rage, sleep with you at night. They… — David Leavitt Copy Share Image
“Boredom is often a useful instrument in politics. Never underestimate it.” — Harold Wilson Copy Share Image
