Boredom Quote by Bertrand Russell

A generation of men is like a generation of leaves; the wind scatters some leaves upon the ground, while others the burgeoning wood brings…

— Homer

The generation of men is like that of leaves. The wind scatters one year's leaves on the ground, but the forest burgeons and and…

— The Iliad

Generations of men are like the leaves. In winter, winds blow them down to earth, but then, when spring season comes again, the budding…

— Anonymous

So generation after generation of men in love with pain and passivity serve out their time in the Zone, silent, redolent of faded sperm,…

— Thomas Pynchon

Generations are as the days of toilsome mankind; death and birth are the vesper and the matin bells that summon mankind to sleep and…

— Thomas Carlyle

There are in every generation those who shrink from the ultimate sacrifice, but there are in every generation those who make it with joy…

— Patrick Pearse

One wonders whether a generation that demands instant satisfaction of all its needs and instant solution of the world's problems will produce anything of…

— Eric Hoffer

My generation is under-entertained.

— Dave Chappelle

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

— Lawrence Ferlinghetti

The generations of men run on in the tide of time, but leave their destined lineaments permanent for ever and ever.

— William Blake

“Each generation stamps itself onto the next one. The impression is indelible. Like the flowers in my mother's gardens that come and go with…

— Lurlene McDaniel

“We need in this generation, as we have had them in the past, men of conscience, driven, even against their wills, certainly against their…

— Sir James Darling