Boredom Quote by Anais Nin Download Open image “The way to recognize a dead word is that it exudes boredom.” — Anais Nin ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.3 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Boredom Language Way
A word is dead when it is said, some say. I say it just begins to live that day. — Emily Dickinson Copy Share Image
A word is dead when it's been said, some say. I say it just begins to live that day. — Ritu Ghatourey Copy Share Image
That for which we find words is something already dead in our hearts — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
If the word is not dead when it reaches the hearer, he murders it at once by a contradiction, a stipulation, a condition, a… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
The etymologist finds the deadest word to have been once a brilliant picture. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Words are like money; there is nothing so useless, unless when in actual use. — Samuel Butler Copy Share Image
A dead language is not only one no longer spoken or written, it is unyielding language content to admire its own paralysis. Like statist… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
that is not the last word; it is not even an apt word; it is a dead word from ten years back. — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
“…For love it is never the same. What goes on inside is never the same just like this music which changes every instant. For… — Anaïs Nin Copy Share Image
Jazz is the music of the body. The breath comes through brass. It is the body's breath, and the strings' wails and moans are… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
I have so strong a sense of creation, of tomorrow, that I cannot get drunk, knowing I will be less alive, less well, less… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
We don't have a language for the senses. Feelings are images, sensations are like musical sounds. — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
Strange, isn't it, that no chemical will give a human being the iridescence that illusions have given them? Give me your hat. — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
The personal, if it is deep enough, becomes universal, mythical, symbolic. — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
Introspection is a devouring monster. You have to feed it with much material, much experience, many people, many places, many loves, many creations, and… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
In each studio there is a human being dressed in the full regalia of his myth fearing to expore a vulnerable opening, spreading not… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
I don't mind working, holding my ground intellectually, artistically; but as a woman, oh, God, as a woman I want to be dominated — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
“Laughter and tears are not separate experiences, with intervals of rest: they rush out together and it is like walking with a sword between… — Anaïs Nin Copy Share Image
The basis of insincerity is the idealized image we hold of ourselves and wish to impose on others. — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
I am fairly tired--bored beyond endurance--by the world we live in, and its ideals, and am ready to say so, not violently, but kindly,… — Henry Adams Copy Share Image
Life is what you make it¦If one refuses to use ones imagination..it will be boring. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Boredom is vastly underrated. Boredom means that nothing is trying to kill you every day. — Robin Hobb Copy Share Image
When people look in the mirror, sometimes they see are their shells in the mirror, nothing else. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I don't think anyone wants to do the same thing over and over again. — Eric Bachmann Copy Share Image
“A car is one of the most interesting inventions, but driving is one of the most boring activities.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
The most total opposite of pleasure is not pain but boredom, for we are willing to risk pain to make a boring life interesting. — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
We shop out of boredom, for release, for excitement, for a sense of achievement, for a sense of control over our unruly existences. And… — Tim Gunn Copy Share Image
That human life must be some kind of mistake is sufficiently proved by the simple observation that man is a compound of needs which… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image