Boredom Quote by Thomas Szasz Download Open image “Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time; serenity, that nothing is.” — Thomas Szasz ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.3 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Boredom Serenity Time Waste of time
Boredom is not a thing. It's not a feeling or a condition. It is the absence of feelings, things and conditions. — A. A. Gill Copy Share Image
Boredom is the thing that regularly arrives between excitements and episodes of meaning: it is as natural as the tides, and in it an… — Eric Maisel Copy Share Image
Boredom is your mind and body's way of telling you you're not living up to your potential. — Hal Sparks Copy Share Image
Boredom is nothing but the experience of a paralysis of our productive powers and the sense of unaliveness. Among the evils of life, there… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
Boredom is the beginning of all destruction and everything that is negative. — Robert Plant Copy Share Image
What is boredom? It is when there is simultaneously too much and not enough. — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
Boredom is a sign of satisfied ignorance, blunted apprehension, crass sympathies, dull understanding, feeble powers of attention, and irreclaimable weakness of character. — James Bridie Copy Share Image
“Boredom is a flight from what is important. Like workaholism and perfectionism, it is a way of distracting yourself from inner experiences. It occurs… — Gary Zukav Copy Share Image
Boredom is a disease of the mind and psyche, an insidious disease. It not only takes the joy out of life, but the creativity… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Institutional psychiatry is a continuation of the Inquisition. All that has really changed is the vocabulary and the social style. The vocabulary conforms to… — Thomas Szasz Copy Share Image
By pretending that convention is Nature, that disobeying a personal prohibition is a medical illness, they establish themselves as agents of social control and… — Thomas Szasz Copy Share Image
We shall therefore compare the concept of homosexuality as heresy, prevalent in the days of the witch-hunts, with the concept of homosexuality as mental… — Thomas Szasz Copy Share Image
The basic ingredients of psychotherapy are religion, rhetoric, and repression, which are themselves mutually overlapping categories. — Thomas Szasz Copy Share Image
For Jews, the Messiah has never come; for Christians, He has come but once; for modern man, He appears and disappears with increasing rapidity.… — Thomas Szasz Copy Share Image
I submit that the traditional definition of psychiatry, which is still vogue, places it alongside such things as alchemy and astrology, and commits it… — Thomas Szasz Copy Share Image
I believe the time has come to acknowledge that the practice of routine circumcision rests on the absurd premise that the only mammal in… — Thomas Szasz Copy Share Image
He who does not accept and respect those who want to reject life does not truly accept and respect life itself. — Thomas Szasz Copy Share Image
The passion to interpret as madness that with which we disagree seems to have infected the best of contemporary minds. — Thomas Szasz Copy Share Image
We should pledge ourselves to the proposition that the irresponsible life is not worth living. — Thomas Szasz Copy Share Image
A child becomes an adult when he realizes that he has a right not only to be right but also to be wrong. — Thomas Szasz Copy Share Image
We have, in our day, witnessed the birth of the Therapeutic State. This is perhaps the major implication of psychiatry as an institution of… — Thomas Szasz 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
