“If you want to get away with wielding true, malevolent power, be boring.” — Jon Ronson Copy Share Image
All man's troubles come from not knowing how to sit still in one room. — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
This is the curse of our age, even the strangest aberrations are no cure for boredom. — Stendhal Copy Share Image
Boredom between two people doesn't come from being together physically. It comes from being apart mentally and spiritually. — Richard Bach Copy Share Image
“Be VERY careful of who or what you entertain when you’re bored. Boredom can get you caught up in some foul stuff.… — Stephanie Lahart Copy Share Image
“Never believe a friend who offered you his friendship just because he was getting bored.” — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
The effect of boredom on a large scale in history is underestimated. It is a main cause of revolutions. — Bill Vaughan Copy Share Image
Who does not recall school at least in part as endless dreary hours of boredom punctuated by moments of high anxiety? — Daniel Goleman Copy Share Image
“Restaurants always seemed to be full of bored couples who enjoyed eavesdropping.” — Jean-Pierre Alaux Copy Share Image
One would expect boredom to be a great yawning emotion, but it isn't, of course. It's a small niggling thing. — Josephine Tey Copy Share Image
Many people try to avoid pressure, yet the absence of any tension or pressure usually creates a sense of boredom and the… — Tony Robbins Copy Share Image
I wanted to make good records. But my problem is I've got a low boredom threshold, so I wanted it to look… — Adam Ant Copy Share Image
Thanks to Twitter, iPads, BlackBerrys, voice-activated in-dash navigation systems, and a hundred other technologies that offer distraction anywhere, anytime, boredom has loosened… — Walter Kirn Copy Share Image
“Katerina Lvovna lived a boring life in the rich house of her father-in-law during the five years of marriage to her unaffectionate… — Nikolai Leskov Copy Share Image
People who have at least three or four very close friendships are healthier, have higher wellbeing, and are more engaged in their… — Tom Rath Copy Share Image
Nothing is so intolerable to man as being fully at rest, without passion, without business, without entertainment, without care. It is then… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
I’m bored’ is a useless thing to say. I mean, you live in a great, big, vast world that you’ve seen none… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We shop out of boredom, for release, for excitement, for a sense of achievement, for a sense of control over our unruly… — Tim Gunn Copy Share Image
What if we choose not to do the things we are supposed to do? The principal gain is a sense of an… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“In a lifeworld, where we can be what we are, and not what people expect us to be, we can escape a… — Erik Pevernagie Copy Share Image
Very often, I confess, the teller of dreams bores me. His dream could perhaps interest me if it were frankly worked on.… — Gaston Bachelard Copy Share Image
“She would not tell him the truth for some weeks, but she would eventually confess that she had left with him because… — Josiah Bancroft Copy Share Image
... except in the eyes of a few fanatics (untrustworthy as all lovers) an unmitigated expanse of water is dull even when… — Freya Stark Copy Share Image
“Consumption can be a remedy against boredom and may convey a sense of fictitious power and supremacy, by standing out from the… — Erik Pevernagie Copy Share Image
“He was never once bored. He wasn’t sure, he said, that he even understood the concept of boredom. It applied only to… — Michael Finkel Copy Share Image
We define boredom as the pain a person feels when he's doing nothing or something irrelevant, instead of something he wants to… — Paul Goodman Copy Share Image
Audacious ribald: your laughter will finish in hideous boredom before morning. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
