Boredom Quote by Mason Cooley Download Open image “A yawn is more disconcerting than a contradiction.” — Mason Cooley ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.9 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Boredom Contradiction
Ambiguity is our permanent state, isn't it? We don't like it being so. Most of us crave order and routine, and yet yawning before… — Paul G. Tremblay Copy Share Image
Contradiction itself, far from always being a criterion of error, is sometimes a sign of truth. — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
Contradictions make people feel off. They'll say, "Hey, you just said this and now this person is doing that, how is that possible?" — Paul Beatty Copy Share Image
You can't take contradiction away. Part of the fun of it is that the contradiction never really quite goes away. — Paul Schrader Copy Share Image
Being able to embrace contradictions is a sign of intelligence. Or insanity. — Richard Kadrey Copy Share Image
Nostalgia keeps dissolving the ironic narratives in which I have contained my past. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
Even the most abject have a sense of superiority based on powerful though undefined merits. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
Literary tradition is full of lies about poverty-the jolly beggar, the poor but happy milkmaid, the wholesome diet of porridge, etc. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
My intentions go one way, my desires another. Thus I feel both self-indulgent and deprived. — Mason Cooley 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
