It's precisely in those moments when I don't know what to do, boredom drives one to try a host of possibilities to… — Anish Kapoor Copy Share Image
No one who appreciates the shortness of this life and the eternality of the next can ever say, 'I'm bored' — Abu Ammaar Yasir Qadhi Copy Share Image
“It was boredom with a twist, the kind of boredom that caused stomach disorders.” — Tim O'Brien Copy Share Image
“Was it boredom or sadism that made the shirt service people do up every single button?” — Ian McEwan Copy Share Image
We're not big on irony in Jamaica, sarcasm and double-talk. We tend to say things plainly, sometimes to the point of boredom. — Marlon James Copy Share Image
Being a [bank] director is like being a pilot of an aircraft - it's years of boredom and seconds of terror. — Moira Johnston Copy Share Image
I'm bored' is a useless thing to say. You live in a great, big, vast world that you've seen none percent of. — Louis C. K Copy Share Image
The only way to stave off boredom, in a complex domesticated primate like humankind, is to increase one's intelligence. This is not… — Robert Anton Wilson Copy Share Image
By his very success in inventing labor-saving devices, modern man has manufactured an abyss of boredom that only the privileged classes in… — Lewis Mumford Copy Share Image
Everyone will recognize that each sound carries with it a tangle of sensations, already well-known and exhausted, which predispose the listener to… — Luigi Russolo Copy Share Image
“Boredom is just “What’s the use?” in disguise. And “What’s the use?” is fear, and fear means you are secretly in despair.… — Julia Cameron Copy Share Image
“Do you not hear the constant victory, in the human footrace of time, slow as fire, sure, and thick and Herculean accumulating… — Pablo Neruda Copy Share Image
Sex is the most natural thing in the world. When I'm in a relationship, I like lots of it. I like to… — Kylie Minogue Copy Share Image
They were connoisseurs of boredom. They savoured the various bouquets of the subtly differentiated boredoms which rose from the long, wasted hours… — Angela Carter Copy Share Image
“What an odd creature you are, Bernard, with your constant fear of death! Do you never have a feeling, as I do,… — François Mauriac Copy Share Image
My marriage didn't make me sad, but it didn't make me happy either. My husband and I hardly spoke to each other.… — Marilyn Monroe Copy Share Image
“Sitting to think of what to write will only set your ass on fire, give you headache, twist your face to look… — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
If you love music and it requires hours of practice that can be boring, you can survive the boredom, you're not going… — Robert Greene Copy Share Image
“Just lay down on the beach, with nothing intellectual or constructive to do , other than soaking in the sun, and listening… — Tina Sequeira Copy Share Image
“Rather than thinking, “I’m feeling bored and impatient,” realize “Here’s boredom and impatience,” and explore your experience. Or say to yourself, “Isn’t… — Julie T. Lusk Copy Share Image
I love to work in all sorts of different situations. I think you learn a lot, which is why I try not… — Laura Linney Copy Share Image
My drive to put myself on the line comes from boredom. From that feeling when you go to bed and think, 'What… — Dylan Moran Copy Share Image
“Fight the Boredom To be, in a word, unborable. … It is the key to modern life. If you are immune to… — Sophia Amoruso Copy Share Image
I did 50 takes on Robert Shaw assembling the Greener Gun on 'Jaws.' The shark wasn't working, so I just kept shooting… — Steven Spielberg Copy Share Image
“A rune for the very bored: when very bored say to yourself: "It was during the next twenty minutes that there occurred… — Cyril Connolly Copy Share Image
And for all the richest and most successful merchants life inevitably became rather dull and niggly, and they began to imagine that… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
Writing is a deeply immersive experience. When the words are flying, the house could be burgled and I wouldn’t notice. I have… — Monica Ali Copy Share Image
“Have you any idea how boring it is living here?” “Probably not,” said Mort, adding with genuine longing, “I’ve heard about boredom… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
I didn't leave physics because of boredom. I left it because other issues compelled me in a bigger way. And I always… — Vandana Shiva Copy Share Image
I wish to speak with all respect of persons, but sometimes I must pinch myself to keep awake, and preserve the due… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Both in their origins and effects, boredom and stuffy air resemble each other. They are usually generated whenever a large number of… — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Copy Share Image
Learn from the mistakes of others. You can't live long enough to make them all yourself. Boredom sets into boring minds. The… — Arthur Koestler Copy Share Image
“I wanted her to stretch her mind and her self-confidence, but I also wanted her to play with friends, read books, listen… — Quinn Cummings Copy Share Image
“I’m bored’ is a useless thing to say. You live in a great, big, vast world that you’ve seen none percent of.… — LOUIS C.K Copy Share Image
“She, who was bored almost to agony, and who had nothing at all to do, she had not time to think even,… — D.H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
A man who experiences no genuine satisfaction in life does not want peace. Men court war to escape meaninglessness and boredom, to… — Nels Fredrick Solomon Ferre Copy Share Image
Listen deeply. Meditate on that which is arising. Even if it's boredom or difficulty or maybe a feeling of being stuck, that… — Rodney Yee Copy Share Image
All our life passes in this way: we seek rest by struggling against certain obstacles, and once they are overcome, rest proves… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Aging has its own beauty. It is a beautiful stage for doing inner work. You have a chance to not be so… — Ram Dass Copy Share Image
Being bored isn't so boring because being bored brings quiet moments, quiet moments make you think and quiet moments can be the… — Darell Davis Copy Share Image