Habits Quote by W. Somerset Maugham

“Boredom was at the root of Lazare's unhappiness, an oppressive, unremitting boredom, exuding from everything like the muddy water of a poisoned spring. He…

— Émile Zola

“Mr Harrington was a bore. He exasperated Ashenden, and enraged him; he got on his nerves, and drove him to frenzy. But Ashenden did…

— W. Somerset Maugham

“He was a master in the art of spreading boredom and playing the clumsy fool-though never so egregiously that people might enjoy making fun…

— Patrick Süskind

“A man must assume the moral burden of his own boredom.”

— Samuel Johnson

“I became bored - that was all. Boredom, which is another name and a frequent disguise for vitality, became the unconscious motive of all…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

“He had grown fat on solitude, he thought, and had learned to expect nothing from the day but at best a dull contentment. Sometimes…

— Colm Tóibín

“He was one of those people whose ideas are too lively to be confined in their brains and spill out into the world to…

— Susanna Clarke

“It's the way a man chooses to limit himself that determines his character. A man without habits, consistency, redundancy - and hence boredom -…

— Luke Rhinehart

“Of course, nobody likes to be bored. But by abolishing any chance of being bored we have also lost the times we used to…

— Greg McKeown

“Boredom, that traitorous devil that posseses us to do things sometimes useless, and often stupid.”

— Apol Lejano-Massebieau

“A world without boredom would be dull.”

— Susan Maushart

“Boredom is merely a symptom of an apathetic soul.”

— Tim