I seriously need to learn the difference between being bored, and being hungry. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Only incredibly boring people have lives that go the way they expect.” — Catherine Lacey Copy Share Image
Boredom is the root of all evil - the despairing refusal to be oneself. — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
“Today was so pointless that when I tried to write about it a moment ago, my pen ran out because it couldn't… — Tim Collins Copy Share Image
“Something more terrible than a hell where one suffers may be imagined, and that is a hell where one is bored.” — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
One wonders what would happen in a society in which there were no rules to break. Doubtless everyone would quickly die of… — Susan Howatch Copy Share Image
Vanity, revenge, loneliness, boredom, all apply: lust is one of the least of the reasons for promiscuity. — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share Image
“I need anything, anything that will stop me from living in the kind of death the bourgeois eat, the death called comfort.” — Kathy Acker Copy Share Image
The Ancient Mariner seizes the guest at the wedding feast and will not let go until he has told all his story:… — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
Boredom, anger, sadness, or fear are not 'yours,' not personal. They are conditions of the human mind. They come and go. Nothing… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Boredom does get you into trouble and we footballers have a lot of time on our hands, and sometimes we fill up… — Adebayo Akinfenwa Copy Share Image
Painting bores me like everything else. Unfortunately, painting is one of the activities - it is bound up in the series of… — Rene Magritte Copy Share Image
I sat there for three hours and did not feel the time or the boredom of our talk and its foolish disconnection.… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
Why do long marriages occasionally endow their inhabitants with a rare kind of equilibrium otherwise almost unknown in human relations? My guess… — Carolyn Heilbrun Copy Share Image
“And what is the most terrible thing about boredom? Why do we rush to dispel it? Because it is a distraction-free state… — Irvin Yalom Copy Share Image
I am bored with gabbers and their gab; my soul abhors them. . . . Is there any place where there is… — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
“If all the eccentricities and all the strangenesses in this world suddenly disappear, people will fall asleep from the boredom! Every kind… — Mehmet Murat ildan Copy Share Image
Education must enable young people to effect what they have recognized to be right, despite hardships, despite dangers, despite inner skepticism, despite… — Kurt Hahn Copy Share Image
But I know too that if we ever make a world without shadow, if the chemists and scientists and psychologists succeed in… — MacDonald Harris Copy Share Image
“This is the kind of paradox, I think, of what it is to be a halfway intelligent American right now, and probably… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
“While they were dancing, the buoyancy that the champagne had given her left her all at once, and she slumped and felt… — Monica Dickens Copy Share Image
But some natives--most natives in the world--cannot go anywhere. They are too poor. They are too poor to go anywhere. They are… — Jamaica Kincaid Copy Share Image
Build pockets of stillness into your life. Meditate. Go for walks. Ride your bike going nowhere in particular. There is a creative… — Maria Popova Copy Share Image
In some ways, the great danger for this commodified universe is our boredom with it ... There is this sort of dialectic… — McKenzie Wark Copy Share Image
If I've learned anything in twenty-nine years, it's that every human being you see in the course of a day has a… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
It is to our lack of proper content ("notre manque de contenu propre:;», Fr.), of our inner emptiness that we need occupations… — African Spir Copy Share Image
“In freedom, every non-nomenklatura citizen knew perpetual hunger – the involuntary slurp and gulp of the esophagus. In camp, your hunger kicked… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image