Depressed, anxious, sad, frightened? Yes. But I've never been bored. — Dustin Hoffman Copy Share Image
“Boredom is a kind reminder that we've shadowed our creativity” — Dr. Jacinta Mpalyenkana, Ph.D, MBA Copy Share Image
One must, in one's life, make a choice between boredom and suffering. — Madame de Stael Copy Share Image
“You hardly know how boredom feels when you wake up every day to live for something that you truly love.” — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
I am convinced that boredom is one of the greatest tortures. If I were to imagine Hell, it would be the place… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
I have come to believe that holy boredom is good and sufficient reason for the invention of free will. — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
Boredom is that awful state of inaction when the very medicine - that is, activity - which could solve it, is seen… — Margaret George Copy Share Image
So eager to die are you? (Zakar) Not particularly, but I’d rather go down clubbing Kessar than from boredom. (Kat) — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
Sometimes many publishers prefer that you write the same book every time, but I have a low boredom threshold so that isn't… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
Talk to me when you actually want to talk to me. Not when you're bored and want to be entertained. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We try to 'self-medicate' ourselves against boredom with mobile phones in any given moment of free time. — Alex Bogusky Copy Share Image
For the amoral herd that fears boredom above all else, everything becomes entertainment. Sex and sport, politics and the arts are transformed… — Merold Westphal Copy Share Image
Of course boredom may lead you to anything. It is boredom sets one sticking golden pins into people, but all that would… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
Our only competition in the theater is boredom, because if I'm bored with a play, if I'm revolted by a play on… — Jerome Lawrence Copy Share Image
“I deal with long blank stretches of empty boredom by laying on my bed, staring at the ceiling, imagining situations in which… — Eva Morgan Copy Share Image
“It may very well be that the frotteurist is a helpless victim in the clutches of his obsession, but it’s equally possible… — Jon Ronson Copy Share Image
Boredom is your window on the properties of time that one tends to ignore to the likely peril of one's mental equilibrium.… — Joseph Brodsky Copy Share Image
It is apparent that nations cannot exist for us. They are the playthings of children, such toys as children break from boredom… — Sherwood Anderson Copy Share Image
“Philip Yancey sees our blasé attitude toward the faithfulness of God in the waitstaff At Yellowstone. Even when they are finished their… — Philip Yancey Copy Share Image
“His hatred for all was so intense that it should extinguish the very love from which it was conceived. And thus, he… — Ashim Shanker Copy Share Image
It's not hard to understand why an accomplished director like Gus Van Sant (whose most recent success, Good Will Hunting, gave him… — James Berardinelli Copy Share Image
I stared into her eyes, wide under the thick fringe of lashes, and yearned for sleep. Not for oblivion, as I had… — Stephenie Meyer Copy Share Image
“In consequence, when the pleasures have been removed which busy people derive from their actual activities, the mind cannot endure the house,… — Seneca Copy Share Image
“That thing some people call boredom, in the correct if elusive dosage, can be a form of inoculation against itself. Once you… — Philip Connors Copy Share Image
“A zoologist who observed gorillas in their native habitat was amazed by the uniformity of their life and their vast idleness. Hours… — E. M. Cioran Copy Share Image
One source of frustration in the workplace is the frequent mismatch between what people must do and what people can do. When… — Daniel H. Pink Copy Share Image
“Espere" in Spanish, is the one word covering two meanings: "waiting" and "hoping". If life, however, offers no expectation or prospect, waiting… — Erik Pevernagie Copy Share Image
To the elitist hedonist, life is the avoidance of boredom and routine. — Timothy Leary Copy Share Image
Boredom, not the will, is the mother of change. Necessity is the father. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves? — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Is boredom anything less than the sense of one's faculties slowly dying? — Arthur Helps Copy Share Image
