Boredom Quote by Mason Cooley Download Open image “Boredom and fear keep us working and obeying the laws.” — Mason Cooley ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.0 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Boredom Fear Law Obeying Work
People had been working for so many years to make the world a safe, organized place. Nobody realized how boring it would become. With… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
Boredom is... a vital problem for the moralist, since half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Boredom has an important function, because pushing through it can unleash creativity. — Amy Dickinson Copy Share Image
Boredom is nothing but the experience of a paralysis of our productive powers. — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
Boredom is a vital problem for the moralist, since at least half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Boredom ... causes us to neglect more duties than does interest. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
As for boredom ... I notice that it leaves me as soon as I am doing something that has got to be done. — John Jay Chapman 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
