I never go to where's a risk. I'm frightened of dangers down to boredom. — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
“…Boredom [is] a moral failing, the mark of a mind insufficiently stocked to occupy itself.” — Nancy Kress Copy Share Image
Life, friends, is boring. We must not say so. After all, the sky flashes, the great sea yearns, we ourselves flash and… — John Berryman Copy Share Image
That awkward moment when silence fills the room, and the only thing you can hear is the sound of a clock ticking — Anne Dawn Copy Share Image
Life is what you make it¦If one refuses to use ones imagination..it will be boring. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Boredom and sexual desire are a potent and explosive combination, and people will certainly risk their lives to exit a grey and… — Lawrence Osborne Copy Share Image
When you consider how epidemic boredom is in our time, you have to concede that entertaining is a healing art. — Judith Martin Copy Share Image
Boredom is... a vital problem for the moralist, since half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Many books are longer than they seem. They have indeed no end. The boredom that they cause is truly absolute and infinite. — Novalis Copy Share Image
Economics is a subject profoundly conducive to cliche, resonant with boredom. On few topics is an American audience so practiced in turning… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
The most terrible thing about materialism, even more terrible than its proneness to violence, is its boredom, from which sex alcohol, drugs,… — Malcolm Muggeridge Copy Share Image
Doing anything when you're bored is very very boring. Anyway, doing nothing is the point of being bored. The pleasure of being… — Aidan Chambers Copy Share Image
“E poi quando si è con Tancredi ci si può forse irritare qualche volta, ma non ci si annoia mai; e questo… — Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa Copy Share Image
“Borkin: Ladies and gentlemen, why are you so glum? Sitting there like a jury after it's been sworn in! ... Let's think… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
“I think that the word bored does not get the attention it deserves. We speak of all sorts of terrible things that… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
When I started doing music, it was out of despair and boredom. I got passionate about it, and I felt that it… — Yasmine Hamdan Copy Share Image
“When Boredom comes, it is the time during which discovery is to be made. That is the time during which real effort… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
In the old days, people used to risk their lives in India or in the Americas in order to bring back products… — Claude Levi-Strauss Copy Share Image
I suspect that the peer-review system carries a good part of blame for the fact that something like sixty percent or more… — Zygmunt Bauman Copy Share Image
“This process of assimilation, which takes place in depth, requires a state of relaxation that is becoming rarer and rarer. If sleep… — Walter Benjamin Copy Share Image
“It's time, we're waiting for you. We're tired of your excuses, your complaining, your everything else. We need you now more than… — Osayi Osar-Emokpae Copy Share Image
“I went on writing reviews for the newspaper, and critical articles crying out for a different approach to culture, as even the… — Roberto Bolaño Copy Share Image
“If this turns to friendship, it only means That one of us will suffer. That when we meet after the worst of… — Cyril Wong Copy Share Image
For myself, I like a universe that, includes much that is unknown and, at the same time, much that is knowable. A… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
He was a volatile mixture of confidence and vulnerability. He could deliver extended monologues on professional matters, then promptly stop in his… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image