Despair leads to boredom, electronic games, computer hacking, poetry and other bad habits. — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
Just watching tv here alone and you're scared what if someone knocks on the door and you feel like oh my..this will… — Shennon Fabiano Copy Share Image
Whenever Rod has four of five days off, he'll be bouncing off the walls with boredom. — Penny Lancaster Copy Share Image
It is fatal to know too much at the outcome: boredom comes as quickly to the traveler who knows his route as… — Paul Theroux Copy Share Image
Chances are that when someone is hating on you, its not about you at all. Its about them. Its their fear, their… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In marketing you must choose between boredom, shouting and seduction. Which do you want? — Roy H. Williams Copy Share Image
The absence of the will to live is, alas, not sufficient to make one want to die. — Michel Houellebecq Copy Share Image
Don't try to 'fix' the child's boredom - rather, let the child find his or her inner resources. — Julia Cameron Copy Share Image
Boredom is nothing but the experience of a paralysis of our productive powers and the sense of unaliveness. Among the evils of… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
The amount of satisfaction you get from life depends largely on your own ingenuity, self-sufficiency, and resourcefulness. People who wait around for… — William C. Menninger Copy Share Image
Many works of the past complete what they announce they are going to do, to our increasing boredom. Certain others plague me… — Philip Guston Copy Share Image
“I don't get it. Basketball is so supremely boring. I can't understand the point of watching ten giants running from one end… — Carter Quinn Copy Share Image
Every native of every place is a potential tourist, and every tourist is a native of somewhere. Every native everywhere lives a… — Jamaica Kincaid 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
“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
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
Good digestions, the gray monotony of provincial life, and the boredom-ah the soul-destroying boredom-of long days of mild content. — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
Man needs air, man needs water, man needs food and man needs adventure also! Adventure is a medicine for the infinite boredom. — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
“I think I was very often bored as a child, but boredom is not what I knew it as—what I knew was… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
They're a redefinition of boredom... the most important thing you need to know about an awards show is where is the nearest… — Stephen Daldry Copy Share Image
People say that jealousy is the greatest enemy of love. They’re wrong. The greatest enemy of love is boredom. — Nicole Kidman Copy Share Image
If at any moment Time stays his hand, it is only when we are delivered over to the miseries of boredom. — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
It is better to be happy for a moment and be burned up with beauty than to live a long time and… — Helen Keller Copy Share Image
Feeling bored is a childish attitude.You wouldn't feel so if you don't relyon somebody to change yourfeeling. — Hemantsmarty Copy Share Image
“This ignorance of what to do with time is the number one reason why people get bored so easily when alone with… — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
The boredom occasioned by too much restraint is always preferable to that produced by an uncontrolled enthusiasm for a pointless variety. — Osbert Lancaster Copy Share Image
Boredom is the thing that regularly arrives between excitements and episodes of meaning: it is as natural as the tides, and in… — Eric Maisel Copy Share Image
“I try to be interested in very nearly everything. I always think boredom is to some extent the fault of the bored.” — Kate Ross Copy Share Image
“Poems should be like pins which prick the skin of boredom and leave a glow equal in its pride to the gate… — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
“Because my life is empty window of nothingness punctuated by meaningless details of totally mundane non-events.” — M. Beth Bloom Copy Share Image
“He himself was almost never bored, and there was no man with whom it would have been a greater mistake to suppose… — Henry James Copy Share Image
The practicing psychotherapist is perhaps better qualified than other serious human beings to discuss boredom. — Psychology Copy Share Image
“Boredom might be construed as the impetus for achievement rather than as an obstacle to it.” — Susan Maushart Copy Share Image
How some of the writers I come across get through their books without dying of boredom is beyond me. — William Gaddis Copy Share Image
People get tired of everything, and of nothing sooner than of what they most like. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Without optimism & self-belief among teachers, classrooms become wastelands of boredom & routine and schools deserts of lost opportunity. — Andy Hargreaves Copy Share Image
I log off because I'm bored but then I log back on after 5 minutes because I'm bored! — Anonymous Copy Share Image
As bored as someone sitting in a weird pub watching the landlord's cat licking its knob. — Sparki Dee Copy Share Image
I've never known a Philadelphian who wasn't a downright 'character'; possibly a defense mechanism resulting from the dullness of their native habitat. — Anita Loos Copy Share Image
Boredom is the biggest problem. The same position. Same day of the week. It becomes boring when you don't bring any added… — Ruth Westheimer Copy Share Image
