Boredom Quote by Helen DeWitt Download Open image “There are people who think death a fate worse than boredom.” — Helen DeWitt ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.6 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Boredom Death Fate People Thinking
Is boredom anything less than the sense of one's faculties slowly dying? — Arthur Helps Copy Share Image
I have often thought that when I do die it will be of sheer boredom... — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
There's nothing like impending death to rouse you from existential boredom. — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
Do you suppose the human race invented boredom to make the prospect of death more palatable? — C.D. Payne Copy Share Image
There is only one thing worse than boredom, and that is the fear of boredom. — Emile M. Cioran Copy Share Image
Boredom is the beginning of all destruction and everything that is negative. — Robert Plant Copy Share Image
Death: Human beings make life so interesting. Do you know, that in a universe so full of wonders, they have managed to invent boredom. — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
They say that death kills you, But death doesn't kill you. Boredom and indifference kill you. — Iggy Pop Copy Share Image
Boredom is an evil that is not to be estimated lightly. It can come in the end to real despair. The public authority takes… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
“When a human being develops an argument, when a human being attempts not only to think but to speak with precision, he or she… — Helen DeWitt Copy Share Image
There is a strange taboo in our society against ending something merely because it is not pleasant-- life, love, a conversation, you name it,… — Helen DeWitt Copy Share Image
“I wish you wouldn't say the first thing that comes into your head, Ludo. There is an obvious difference between someone who works within… — Helen DeWitt Copy Share Image
“So Lucille pressed the button, and a panel slid open in the wall, and the transporter came through, and sure enough here was the… — Helen DeWitt Copy Share Image
“In her excitement at the idea of just walking out the door she had walked out the door without stopping to practice and without… — Helen DeWitt Copy Share Image
“Sometimes I rode the Circle Line reading a book on organic chemistry and sometimes I read Leave It to Psmith for the 20th or… — Helen DeWitt Copy Share Image
The master swordsman isn't interested in killing people. He only wants to perfect his art. — Helen DeWitt Copy Share Image
“I thought suddenly Look. If Kambei had stopped recruiting when the first samurai didn’t work out a 205-minute masterpiece of modern cinema would have… — Helen DeWitt Copy Share Image
The typical review makes a Teletubby look like a sabre-toothed tiger. You can economize by reading online rather than squandering $4.95, yes, but all… — Helen DeWitt Copy Share Image
Perhaps this is the root of all evil, that gardeners are not put in charge of our schools. — Helen DeWitt Copy Share Image
“Yamamoto said he thought you had to be able to hear how something did not work as part of a bigger thing to hear… — Helen DeWitt Copy Share Image
“Something looked through my grandfather's eyes. It said Being an accountant, it's not the end of the world. Something looked at my Uncle Danny.… — Helen DeWitt 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
