Attics Quote by Gaston Bachelard

My boredom threshold is low at the best of times but I have spent more time being slowly and excruciatingly bored by children than…

— Jill Tweedie

The inexorable boredom that is at the core of life.

— Jacques-Benigne Bossuet

“Boredom exists, as Frankl (1955) argued, so that “we will escape inactivity and do justice to the meaning of our life” (p. 87).”

— Dr. Brian Ogawa

I always wanted to live alone for a month in a lakeside cabin. In my fantasy, I enter a state of perfect peace and…

— Kate McKinnon

Boredom sets into the boring mind. (The Struggle Within)

— Metallica

Boredom is the keynote of poverty — of all its indignities, it is perhaps the hardest of all to live with — for where…

— Moss Hart

Escape from boredom is one of the really powerful desires of almost all human beings.

— Bertrand Russell

“...childhood boredom is a special kind of boredom. It is a boredom full of dreams, a sort of projection into another place, into another…

— Italo Calvino

“a certain amount of boredom is...essential to a happy life”

— Bertrand Russell

In a world which furnishes so many employments which are useful, and so many which are amusing, it is our own fault if we…

— Thomas Jefferson

I suppose kids probably know less boredom these days - or at least a different kind of boredom.

— Charlie Brooker

Boredom is the keynote of poverty - of all its indignities, it is perhaps the hardest of all to live with - for where…

— Moss Hart