Boredom Quotes · Page 35

The war between being and nothingness is the underlying illness of the twentieth century. Boredom slays more of existence than war.

— Norman Mailer

Life is first boredom, then fear. Whether or not we use it, it goes, And leaves what something hidden from us chose,…

— Philip Larkin

“Boredom is therefore a vital problem for the moralist, since at least half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear…

— Bertrand Russell

The awkward moment when you can't tell the difference between hunger and boredom.

— Anonymous

Boredom is not black licorice, Snicket," she said. "There's no reason to share it with me.

— Anonymous

“The more controlling the parent,” Caldwell explained, “the more likely a child is to experience boredom.”

— Po Bronson & Ashley Merryman

The technical phase can be boring because there is little opportunity for creavivity, for art. Boredom leads to complacency and mistakes.

— Garry Kasparov

Art makes you reinvent the wheel with regularity. If you don't, art gets bored and slips away.

— Walter Darby Bannard

Our only competition in the theater is boredom, because if I'm bored with a play, if I'm revolted by a play on…

— Jerome Lawrence

“I deal with long blank stretches of empty boredom by laying on my bed, staring at the ceiling, imagining situations in which…

— Eva Morgan

“So life isn't exciting?" continued Gary. "Great. Give me boredom. At least I know where I'm going to eat and sleep tonight.…

— Neil Gaiman

I'm something that I used to be. I'm never where I feel I am, and if I seek myself, I don't know…

— Fernando Pessoa

Boredom is your window on the properties of time that one tends to ignore to the likely peril of one's mental equilibrium.…

— Joseph Brodsky

It is apparent that nations cannot exist for us. They are the playthings of children, such toys as children break from boredom…

— Sherwood Anderson

No man should go through life without once experiencing healthy, even bored solitude in the wilderness, finding himself depending solely on himself…

— Jack Kerouac

“Philip Yancey sees our blasé attitude toward the faithfulness of God in the waitstaff At Yellowstone. Even when they are finished their…

— Philip Yancey

Another day at work...I'm having as much fun as a colorblind person playing twister.

— Anonymous

When each day is the same as the next it's because people fail to recognize the good things that happen in their…

— Paulo Coelho

I smell something burning. Oh...wait…nevermind, It's just my brain cells frying.

— Raea

The 11th Commandment: Thou Shalt Not Bore God. The 12th Commandment: Thou Shalt Not Bore Thyself.

— Rob Brezsny

Someone has somewhere commented on the fact that millions long for immortality who don't know what to do with themselves on a…

— Susan Ertz

the calm of a place like Bellwood is the peace of death without the hope of resurrection.

— Mary Roberts Rinehart

Boredom is vastly underrated. Boredom means that nothing is trying to kill you every day.

— Robin Hobb

Filming is like a long air journey: there's so much hanging around and boredom that they keep giving you food.

— John Cleese

We have seen the best minds of our generation destroyed by boredom at poetry readings.

— Lawrence Ferlinghetti

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— donald

For most people, everyday is the same shit. They just have to decide when to flush.

— Prince Shawn

If you really want a life which has no boredom in it, drop all masks, be true. Sometimes it will be difficult,…

— Rajneesh

Many people, especially women, never experience boredom because they have never learned to work properly.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

I'm rather bored by the subject - meaning me. It's a sort of a yoke, but at times you know, a yoke…

— Laurence Olivier

The main thing I got from growing up in a suburb is the boredom you have as a child.

— Alia Shawkat

They all went down in droves because just scenes of palm trees and beaches can get pretty boring.

— James MacArthur

Boredom typically covers up anger. If you feel bored with anyone, ask yourself what you're angry about.

— Kemmy Nola

monotony is not to be worshipped as a virtue; nor the marriage bed treated as a coffin for security rather than a…

— Freya Stark

“... crowding together to see something which would ease the boredom of perfection and time.”

— Cordwainer Smith

A lot of newspapers say, Terence Stamp is playing himself and we're as bored as he is.

— Terence Stamp

Boredom is just the reverse side of fascination: both depend on being outside rather than inside a situation, and one leads to…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

“Mundane, boring stories--not interesting ones--are the ideal in an operating room.”

— Wolf Pascoe

I looked out the window for other passengers in love with their drivers, but we were well disguised, we pretended boredom and…

— Miranda July

Boredom and restlessness are deeply related. Whenever you feel boredom, then you feel restlessness. Restlessness is a by-product of boredom.

— Rajneesh