“I am near fourteen and have never yet seen a hanging. My life is barren.” — Karen Cushman Copy Share Image
If it's got to be boring, it will be boring. Hit and run. I'll take that. — James DeGale Copy Share Image
My greatest discovery has been my love of boredom and to get fun out of it. — Julien Torma Copy Share Image
Boredom is nothing but the experience of a paralysis of our productive powers. — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
Books - the best antidote against the marsh-gas of boredom and vacuity — George Steiner Copy Share Image
“Real life is full of boring transition moments. Weed out those moments and settings for your reader.” — Denise Jaden Copy Share Image
“Faith gives you a concept of the dignity and worth of all work, even simple work, without which work could bore you.” — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
“miles an hour. You and your beakers, your clipboards, your briefcase. You and your boring stories” — Matthew Thomas Copy Share Image
The Postmodernists' tyranny wears people down by boredom and semi-literate prose. — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“Bored because you have nothing to do? Try to find something that is not there, it will keep you busy for a… — Mehmet Murat ildan Copy Share Image
My way of thinking is that if you plan everything your life will be boring and who wants a boring life. Live… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Condition de l'homme: inconstance, ennui, inquie tude. Man's condition. Inconstancy, boredom, anxiety. — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Down time is where we become ourselves... a hiatus that passes for boredom but is really the quiet moving of the wheels… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
Listen to your life. See it for the fathomless mystery it is. In the boredom and pain of it, no less than… — Frederick Buechner Copy Share Image
You discover that a bored person is not who you are.Boredom is simply a conditioned energy movement within you.Neither are you an… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The key is the ability, whether innate or conditioned, to find the other side of the rote, the picayune, the meaningless, the… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
As for America, it is the ideal fruit of all your youthful hopes and reforms. Everybody is fairly decent, respectable, domestic, bourgeois,… — Henry Adams Copy Share Image
“All men, reaching back to Adam in the Garden, plead Ignorance as their defence; when, if we were but honest, we would… — K.W. Jeter Copy Share Image
“If you are filled with your own ways and bored with life, check your relationship with God - your boredom could be… — ANIKOR Daniel Copy Share Image
My men have suffered greatly (from boredom), much blood has been shed (by mosquitoes), and I have swung my ax mightily (chopping… — Seth Grahame-Smith Copy Share Image
The stimulation I get from my phone does not feel like the opposite of boredom to me. It actually feels like a… — Robin Sloan Copy Share Image
Boredom!!! Shooting!!! Shelling!!! People being killed!!! Despair!!! Hunger!!! Misery!!! Fear!!! That's my life! The life of an innocent eleven-year-old schoolgirl!! A schoolgirl… — Zlata Filipović Copy Share Image
People had been working for so many years to make the world a safe, organized place. Nobody realized how boring it would… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
The danger of the past was that men became slaves. The danger of the future is that men may become robots. True… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
A Strange melancholy pervades me to which I hesitate to give the grave and beautiful name of sorrow. The idea of sorrow… — Francoise Sagan Copy Share Image
“Doing nothing is the hardest torture that a person can put himself through. For he is always brought face to face with… — Iwan Goll Copy Share Image
“Work, worry, toil and trouble are certainly the lot of almost all throughout their lives. But if all desires were fulfilled as… — Irvin D. Yalom Copy Share Image
“Everything, except boredom, bores me. I’d like, without being calm, to calm down, To take life every day Like a medicine— One… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
Sometimes, though, I feel that pushing books is a whole lot like pushing medicine. Think of books as pills. I have pills… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
Symmetry is tedious, and tedium is the very basis of mourning. Despair yawns. — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
I’ve seen excitement, and I’ve seen boredom. And boredom was best. — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Boredom is usually what spurs either bad decisions or any decision at all. — Amy Seimetz Copy Share Image
