Bird Quote by Walter Benjamin

“This process of assimilation, which takes place in depth, requires a state of relaxation that is becoming rarer and rarer. If sleep is the…

— Walter Benjamin

If sleep is the apogee of physical relaxation, boredom is the apogee of mental relaxation. Boredom is the dream bird that hatches the egg…

— Walter Benjamin

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

...my boredom might be described as a malady affecting external objects and consisting of a withering process; an almost instantaneous loss of vitality--just as…

— Alberto Moravia

Boredom turns to panic if my beloved leaves before the usual time.

— Mason Cooley

Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time; serenity, that nothing is.

— Thomas Szasz

Boredom strives to detach, but finds itself stuck.

— Mason Cooley

Boredom rests upon the nothingness that winds its way through existence; its giddiness, like that which comes from gazing down into an infinite abyss,…

— Soren Kierkegaard

Boredom is your window on the properties of time that one tends to ignore to the likely peril of one's mental equilibrium. It is…

— Joseph Brodsky

“Boredom is restlessness of the soul. It is an internal message reminding you that you're better than the stagnancy you've settled for.”

— Steve Maraboli

We know what boredom is: it is a dull Impatience or a fierce velleity, A champing wish, stalled by our lassitude, To make or…

— Richard Wilbur

Boredom is a concept that I don't understand.

— Christian Louboutin