“The boring thing about being interesting is that you bore boring people.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
The chief product of an automated society is a widespread and deepening sense of boredom. — C. Northcote Parkinson Copy Share Image
Papa's love did indeed have wondrous properties: it not only compensated for her boredom and anxiety, it was the cause of her… — Vivian Gornick Copy Share Image
A great affliction of all Philistines is that idealities afford them no entertainment, but to escape from boredom they are always in… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
“Boredom is a lack of crazy. Its a lack of creativity. Invention. Innovation. If you're bored, blame yourself.” — Katelyn S. Irons Copy Share Image
No society ever seems to have succumbed to boredom. Man has developed an obvious capacity for surviving the pompous reiteration of the… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
“I became bored - that was all. Boredom, which is another name and a frequent disguise for vitality, became the unconscious motive… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“She was comfortable enough that she was beginning to suffer from the most chronic condition of slavery— boredom.” — Patricia Briggs Copy Share Image
I've written songs since I was like eight or nine, and that was purely out of boredom because I just loved music. — Ruel Copy Share Image
As I inched sluggishly along the treadmill of the Maycomb County school system, I could not help receiving the impression that I… — Harper Lee Copy Share Image
I've studied nutrition since I was 23 and I began to find that a lot of my eating habits were to do… — Toyah Willcox Copy Share Image
unless I can shake myself free of my dog, my flag, of my desk, my mind, I find life a bit of… — Anne Sexton Copy Share Image
“His eagerness had turned into a routine; he embraced her at the same time every day. It was a habit like any… — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
“Oh,you. The usual. With you gone and Easton Heights in reruns, my life is a black hole of boredom and despair." "So… — Kiersten White Copy Share Image
Discomfort is a pain. Boredom is a pain. A perfect piece of music can reduce us to tears. Every one of these… — Ruben Papian Copy Share Image
I think Hollywood sees so many parts of America through a very narrow prism. The South is no exception. And those stereotypes,… — Walton Goggins Copy Share Image
I always liked routine. I suppose I never found boredom very boring. I doubted I could explain it to someone like Margo… — John Green Copy Share Image
What we feel at prayer is God's business, not ours, and we must strive to be totally abandoned to the presence of… — Sheila Cassidy Copy Share Image
I think the fear of being seen as childish or crazy severely limits our enjoyment of the world around us, thus inducing… — D. Patrick Miller Copy Share Image
“Running keeps me at a physical peak and sharpens my senses. It makes me touch and see and hear as if for… — George Sheehan Copy Share Image
“This was very bitter to Gerald, who had never known what boredom was, who had gone from activity to activity, never at… — D.H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
What meaning has such meditation? There is no meaning; there is no utility. But in that meditation there is a movement of… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
“To me, at least in retrospect, the really interesting question is why dullness proves to be such a powerful impediment to attention.… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
Solitude is used to teach us how to live with other people. Rage is used to show us the infinite value of… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
“The worst pair of opposites is boredom and terror. Sometimes your life is a pendulum swing from one to the other. The… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
