Being boring is just wrong, isn't it? You wouldn't have got anywhere being boring. — Rachel Johnson Copy Share Image
“Tolstoy described boredom as “a desire for desires,” while the working-class Chekhov wrote about it primarily as a desire for escape.” — Mary Mann Copy Share Image
“The existential vacuum manifests itself mainly in a state of boredom. —VIKTOR FRANKL, Auschwitz survivor and founder of Logotherapy, Man’s Search for… — Timothy Ferriss Copy Share Image
Relish being an oddball: Well-behaved, well-adjusted people are hopeless storytellers and, honestly, terribly boring. — Twinkle Khanna Copy Share Image
“and now i am back in the grey world where it tastes like plastic, the monotony is buzzing through my jaws and… — Anna Jae Copy Share Image
Escape from boredom is one of the really powerful desires of almost all human beings. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
If whites bored me, it was because they bored themselves. They seemed to get little fun out of life and were desperately… — Ethel Waters Copy Share Image
Everyone is a bore to someone. That is unimportant. The thing to avoid is being a bore to oneself. — Gerald Brenan Copy Share Image
I rarely deal with boredom these days. I used to spend a lot of time saying I was bored until I realized… — Bethany Mota Copy Share Image
“Boredom doesn't come from lack of activities but rather from your own limitations and ideas of fun. Appropriate behavior, normalcy and perfection… — sofia 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
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
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
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
There's something about trying to know when you really need to protect yourself, or else you're not going to get anything done,… — Regina Spektor Copy Share Image
I am fairly tired--bored beyond endurance--by the world we live in, and its ideals, and am ready to say so, not violently,… — Henry Adams Copy Share Image
“Summer had a way of being full of fun and things to do and plenty of times of doing nothing and feeling… — Sofi Benitez Copy Share Image
In a world where thrushes sing and willow trees are golden in the spring, boredom should have been included among the seven… — Elizabeth Goudge Copy Share Image
The only time I open my books to do homework is when I can't think of anything else to do. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In order to live free and happily you must sacrifice boredom. It is not always an easy sacrifice. — Richard Bach Copy Share Image
No man ever dared to manifest his boredom so insolently as does a Siamese tomcat when he yawns in the face of… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
The concept of boredom entails an inability to use up present moments in a personally fulfilling way. — Wayne Dyer Copy Share Image
“I wanted to reject it all because I was sick of being perfect. I was so bored with normality and dreams of… — J. Merridew Copy Share Image
As actors, the thing we have to fight, more than even the business part of making movies, is boredom. — Linda Fiorentino Copy Share Image
“My heart almost died within me; miserable longings strained its chords. How long were the September days! How silent, how lifeless!” — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
There is nothing frightening about an eternal dreamless sleep. Surely it is better than eternal torment in Hell and eternal boredom in… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
That awkward moment when it's Spring Break and you're sitting at home on Twitter. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Boredom exists, as Frankl (1955) argued, so that “we will escape inactivity and do justice to the meaning of our life” (p. 87).” — Dr. Brian Ogawa Copy Share Image
Levity is the lubricant of a crisis. We resort to jokes, pranks and good natured kidding to relieve tension, stress and boredom. — Wally Schirra Copy Share Image
All sizes of film sets have the same level of excitement and friction and tension and then vast sections of boredom that… — David Hayter Copy Share Image
Americans don’t want drama, especially good drama, they just want their boredom killed. — Paddy Chayefsky Copy Share Image
My life is a black hole of boredom and despair." "So basically you've been doing homework." "Like I said, black hole. — Kiersten White Copy Share Image
I've only done a handful of things in my life that have stood out. The rest is just broth: mistakes and boredom. — Viv Albertine Copy Share Image
Flying to me isn't scary, it's just incredibly boring. And I guess I have a fear of boredom, so in that regard,… — Chuck Klosterman Copy Share Image
Much is forgiven anyone who relieves the desperate boredom of the working press. — William Weld Copy Share Image
The life of the creative man is lead, directed and controlled by boredom. Avoiding boredom is one of our most important purposes. — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
The pilot of the Galilean lake; Two massy keys he bore, of metals twain (The golden opes, the iron shuts amain). — John Milton Copy Share Image
A utopia cannot, by definition, include boredom, but the 'utopia' we are living in is boring. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A bore is someone who persists in holding his own views after we have enlightened him with ours. — Malcolm Forbes Copy Share Image
Net neutrality: The only two words that promise more boredom in the English language are 'featuring Sting,' — John Oliver Copy Share Image
