Quotes about Boredom

Boredom: the desire for desires. Votes: 6

Passion goes, Boredom remains. Votes: 5

The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom. Votes: 4

I've got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom. Votes: 4

You'll find boredom where there is the absence of a good idea. Votes: 4

Virtuous people often revenge themselves for the constraints to which they submit by the boredom which they inspire. Votes: 4

There's no excuse to be bored. Sad, yes. Angry, yes. Depressed, yes. Crazy, yes. But there's no excuse for boredom, ever. Votes: 4

Something opens our wings. Something makes boredom and hurt disappear. Someone fills the cup in front of us: We taste only sacredness. Votes: 4

Boredom is the deadliest poison. Votes: 3

Boredom and booze--cause and effect. Votes: 3

Boredom is desire seeking desire. Votes: 3

Boredom is always counter-revolutionary. Always. Votes: 3

Boredom is a disease, too. Votes: 3

Boredom is a horrible thing. Votes: 3

Boredom is rage spread thin. Votes: 3

Boredom is a great motivator. Votes: 3

Boredom is why God invented books. Votes: 3

Boredom makes you do crazy things Votes: 3

Boredom has always been a problem. Votes: 3

Conclusion 1: Boredom= Flared tempers= hard words Votes: 3

Boredom makes me sleepy or restless. Votes: 3

Boredom is a mask frustration wears. Votes: 3

Boredom and fatigue are great historical forces. Votes: 3

Down with boredom. It has to go. Votes: 3

Boredom slays more of existence than war. Votes: 3

The Beatles saved the world from boredom. Votes: 3

Boredom is a pleasing antidote for fear Votes: 3

Boredom is the most horrible of wolves. Votes: 3

There are no uninteresting things, only uninterested people. Votes: 3

Boredom is simply romanticism with a morning-after thirst. Votes: 3

Boredom is the legitimate kingdom of the philanthropic. Votes: 3

Boredom always precedes a period of great creativity. Votes: 3

Boredom strives to detach, but finds itself stuck. Votes: 3

Boredom is the self being stuffed with itself. Votes: 3

Boredom is a terrible affliction of the soulless. Votes: 3

Boredom is a concept that I don't understand. Votes: 3

Boredom is the only sure cure for neurosis. Votes: 3

Boredom, after all, is a form of criticism. Votes: 3

Boredom is just the reverse side of fascination. Votes: 3

Boredom is the effort used in suppressing something negative. Votes: 3

Boredom soon overcomes me when I am contemplating nature. Votes: 3

Boredom provides a stronger inclination to write than anything. Votes: 3

Boredom comes simply from ignorance and lack of imagination. Votes: 3

Boredom is only for boring people with no imagination. Votes: 3

Boredom is actually the most plentiful substance in the universe. Votes: 3

Boredom ... causes us to neglect more duties than does interest. Votes: 3

Boredom is the keynote of poverty ... it's dark brown sameness. Votes: 3

Boredom and fear keep us working and obeying the laws. Votes: 3

Boredom can be a lethal thing on a small island. Votes: 3

Boredom is a disease worse than cancer. Drugs cure it. Votes: 3

She refused to be bored chiefly because she wasn't boring. Votes: 3

Boredom is often the cause of promiscuity, and always its result. Votes: 3

Boredom, Timothy Duane assured me, is nothing more than anger without passion. Votes: 3

Boredom flourishes too, when you feel safe. It's a symptom of security. Votes: 3

Boredom is the beginning of all destruction and everything that is negative. Votes: 3

Boredom has an important function, because pushing through it can unleash creativity. Votes: 3

Boredom turns to panic if my beloved leaves before the usual time. Votes: 3

The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity. Votes: 3

Boredom is the conviction that you can't change ... the shriek of unused capacities. Votes: 3

Boredom is what happens to people who have no control over their minds. Votes: 3

Boredom comes not from reality but from people who are only half alive. Votes: 3

Boredom, not the will, is the mother of change. Necessity is the father. Votes: 3

Boredom is usually what spurs either bad decisions or any decision at all. Votes: 3

Boredom is nothing but the experience of a paralysis of our productive powers. Votes: 3

Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves? Votes: 3

Boredom is the root of all evil - the despairing refusal to be oneself Votes: 3

Boredom is the root of all evil - the despairing refusal to be oneself." Votes: 3

Boredom is the root of all evil - the despairing refusal to be oneself. Votes: 3

Boredom is the specter that haunts children from kindergarten to graduation on every continent. Votes: 3

Boredom is not in the world, but in the way we see the world. Votes: 3

Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time; serenity, that nothing is. Votes: 3

Boredom is vastly underrated. Boredom means that nothing is trying to kill you every day. Votes: 3

Boredom turns a man to sex, a woman to shopping, and it drives newscasters berserk. Votes: 3

Boredom is a certain sign that we are allowing our faculties to rust in idleness. Votes: 3

Boredom is the inner conflict we suffer when we lose desire, when we lack a lacking. Votes: 3

My greatest discovery has been my love of boredom and to get fun out of it. Votes: 3

Boredom is not black licorice, Snicket," she said. "There's no reason to share it with me. Votes: 3

They say that death kills you, But death doesn't kill you. Boredom and indifference kill you. Votes: 3

Boredom is your mind and body's way of telling you you're not living up to your potential. Votes: 3

Boredom, that silent spider, was spinning its web in the darkness in every corner of her heart. Votes: 3

The Devil may take the reckless, but the good will surely die of boredom. Boredom and frustration. Votes: 3

Boredom between two people doesn't come from being together physically. It comes from being apart mentally and spiritually. Votes: 3

Boredom dismantles the mind, renders it superficial, out at the seams, saps it from within and dislocates it. Votes: 3

Boredom is a lack of crazy. Its a lack of creativity. Invention. Innovation. If you're bored, blame yourself. Votes: 3

Boredom or being sick of what you've done before is a big part of being in a band. Votes: 3

Boredom is the dream bird that hatches the egg of experience. A rustling in the leaves drives him away. Votes: 3

How some of the writers I come across get through their books without dying of boredom is beyond me. Votes: 3

Everyone is a bore to someone. That is unimportant. The thing to avoid is being a bore to oneself. Votes: 3

Morality is a venereal disease. Its primary stage is called virtue; its secondary stage, boredom; its tertiary stage, syphilis. Votes: 3

Boredom and restlessness are deeply related. Whenever you feel boredom, then you feel restlessness. Restlessness is a by-product of boredom. Votes: 3

It is the unknown that excites the ardor of scholars, who, in the known alone, would shrivel up with boredom. Votes: 3

Boredom and stupidity and patriotism, especially when combined, are three of the greatest evils of the world we live in. Votes: 3

The technical phase can be boring because there is little opportunity for creavivity, for art. Boredom leads to complacency and mistakes. Votes: 3

The war between being and nothingness is the underlying illness of the twentieth century. Boredom slays more of existence than war. Votes: 3

Teens think listening to music helps them concentrate. It doesn't. It relieves them of the boredom that concentration on homework induces. Votes: 3

The boredom occasioned by too much restraint is always preferable to that produced by an uncontrolled enthusiasm for a pointless variety. Votes: 3

Boredom is... a vital problem for the moralist, since half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it. Votes: 3

Boredom is a sign of satisfied ignorance, blunted apprehension, crass sympathies, dull understanding, feeble powers of attention, and irreclaimable weakness of character. Votes: 3

Boredom lies only with the traveler's limited perception and his failure to explore deeply enough. After a while, I found my perception limited. Votes: 3

Boredom is a blessing when it leads you to wisdom. And boredom is a curse when it leads you to frustration and depression. Votes: 3

Boredom is a fearsome prospect. There's a limit to the number of cars and microwaves you can buy. What do you do then? Votes: 3

What annoys a person who suicides? The life itself. Boredom. Tiredness that descends on every morning when you look at yourself at the mirror. Votes: 3

Boredom is just the reverse side of fascination: both depend on being outside rather than inside a situation, and one leads to the other. Votes: 3

Boredom is the biggest problem. The same position. Same day of the week. It becomes boring when you don't bring any added flowers home. Votes: 3

Boredom is that awful state of inaction when the very medicine - that is, activity - which could solve it, is seen as odious. Votes: 3

Boredom is like a pitiless zooming in on the epidermis of time. Every instant is dilated and magnified like the pores of the face Votes: 3

Boredom is like a pitiless zooming in on the epidermis of time. Every instant is dilated and magnified like the pores of the face. Votes: 3

Living, just by itself --what a dirge that is! Life is a classroom and Boredom's the usher, there all the time to spy on you... Votes: 3

I know when I'm working I seldom get into trouble. My educated guess is that boredom has caused most of the problems with Hollywood celebrities. Votes: 3

Boredom rests upon the nothingness that winds its way through existence; its giddiness, like that which comes from gazing down into an infinite abyss, is infinite. Votes: 3

If sleep is the apogee of physical relaxation, boredom is the apogee of mental relaxation. Boredom is the dream bird that hatches the egg of experience. Votes: 3

Boredom is my worst enemy. It's killed a lot of my friends, but it won't get me. When I get bored, I go risk my life somewhere. Votes: 3

Boredom is the thing that regularly arrives between excitements and episodes of meaning: it is as natural as the tides, and in it an artist can drown. Votes: 3

Boredom, anger, sadness, or fear are not 'yours,' not personal. They are conditions of the human mind. They come and go. Nothing that comes and goes is you. Votes: 3

The amount of satisfaction you get from life depends largely on your own ingenuity, self-sufficiency, and resourcefulness. People who wait around for life to supply their satisfaction usually find boredom instead. Votes: 3

Learn from the mistakes of others. You can't live long enough to make them all yourself. Boredom sets into boring minds. The more original a discovery, the more obvious it seems afterwards. Votes: 3

Boredom is an evil that is not to be estimated lightly. It can come in the end to real despair. The public authority takes precautions against it everywhere, as against other universal calamities. Votes: 3

Boredom is not an end-product, is comparatively rather an early stage in life and art. You've got to go by or past or through boredom, as through a filter, before the clear product emerges. Votes: 3

There are six reasons anyone does anything: Love. Faith. Greed. Boredom. Fear..." he said, ticking them off on his fingers; but he lingered on the last, drawing a deep breath before he said, "Revenge. Votes: 3

Boredom is the keynote of poverty - of all its indignities, it is perhaps the hardest of all to live with - for where there is no money there is no change of any kind. Votes: 3

Boredom is an instrument of social control. Power is the power to impose boredom, to command stasis, to combine this stasis with anguish. The real tedium, deep tedium, is seasoned with terror and with death. Votes: 3

Discomfort is a pain. Boredom is a pain. A perfect piece of music can reduce us to tears. Every one of these pains is essential to the growth of the soul. Pain is part of the beauty of life. It enriches us. Votes: 3

Listen to your life. See it for the fathomless mystery it is. In the boredom and pain of it, no less than in the excitement and gladness: touch, taste, smell your way to the holy and hidden heart of it, because in the last analysis all moments are key moments, and life itself is grace. Votes: 3

The afternoon passed more slowly than a walnut-sized kidney stone Votes: 1

When you pay attention to boredom it gets unbelievably interesting. Votes: 1

Repose is a good thing, but boredom is its brother Votes: 1

Bore a person who talks when you wish him to listen Votes: 1

The presidency has many problems, but boredom is the least of them Votes: 1

He who seeks rest finds boredom. He who seeks work finds rest. Votes: 1

Perhaps the world's second-worst crime is boredom; the first is being a bore. Votes: 1

In the U.S., you have to be a deviant or die of boredom. Votes: 1

Perhaps the world's second worst crime is boredom. The first is being a bore. Votes: 1

As you change so does your definition of fun. You're not lame, you're growing up. Votes: 1

When we hold back out of laziness, that is when we tie ourselves into knots of boredom. Votes: 1

In order to live free and happily you must sacrifice boredom. It is not always an easy sacrifice. Votes: 1

I love heights. I love speed. I'm on the verge of being a pyromaniac. Maybe my phobia is boredom. Votes: 1

It is only a step from boredom to disillusionment, which leads naturally to self-pity, which in turn ends in chaos. Votes: 1

Jump out the window if you are the object of passion. Flee it if you feel it. Passion goes, boredom remains. Votes: 1

No man ever dared to manifest his boredom so insolently as does a Siamese tomcat when he yawns in the face of his amorously importunate wife Votes: 1

When a management team with a reputation for brilliance tackles a business with a reputation for bad economics, it is the reputation of the business that remains intact Votes: 1

Idle people are often bored and bored people, unless they sleep a lot, are cruel. It is not accident that boredom and cruelty are great preoccupations in our time. Votes: 1

Listen deeply. Meditate on that which is arising. Even if it's boredom or difficulty or maybe a feeling of being stuck, that in itself can be the work for your practice. Votes: 1

And there is a time, glorious too in its own way, when one scarcely exists, when one is a complete void. I mean, when boredom seems the very stuff of life. Votes: 1

I don't believe in an afterlife, so I don't have to spend my whole life fearing hell, or fearing heaven even more. For whatever the tortures of hell, I think the boredom of heaven would be even worse. Votes: 1

Patience and boredom are closely related. Boredom, a certain kind of boredom, is really impatience. You don't like the way things are, they aren't interesting enough for you, so you deccide- and boredom is a decision-that you are bored. Votes: 1

Boredom is nothing but the experience of a paralysis of our productive powers and the sense of unaliveness. Among the evils of life, there are few which are as painful as boredom, and consequently every attempt is made to avoid it. Votes: 1

Since boredom advances and boredom is the root of all evil, no wonder, then, that the world goes backwards, that evil spreads. This can be traced back to the very beginning of the world. The gods were bored; therefore they created human beings. Votes: 1

After I dropped out of college at the age of 19, I became a mortgage broker, and when I went back to school I thought about going into real estate law. I probably would have made a lot more money and died of boredom by now. Votes: 1

Fortunately, our audiences are used to a kind of boredom in the theatre, and if the writer is skillful, he will flatter them into thinking: 'Why, that's us up there, and aren't we - for all our little foibles - pretty nice guys and gals?' Votes: 1

Sooner barbarity than boredom. Votes: 0

A scholar knows no boredom. Votes: 0

Even boredom has its crises. Votes: 0

Clarity keeps you from boredom. Votes: 0

What are the politics of boredom? Votes: 0

Life is first boredom, then fear, Votes: 0

Passion always goes, and boredom stays. Votes: 0

Extreme boredom provides its own antidote. Votes: 0

Against boredom even gods struggle in vain. Votes: 0

Deceit dispels the boredom of the Absolute. Votes: 0

Long-term boredom can't lead to anything good. Votes: 0

Man's worst enemies are boredom and discontent. Votes: 0

Nothing prevents boredom like a good book. Votes: 0

...boredom was as exhausting as backbreaking labor. Votes: 0

My boredom with everything has numbed me. Votes: 0

A well-stocked mind is safe from boredom. Votes: 0

Many persons lead lives of crushing boredom. Votes: 0

It's boredom. No other reason than that. Votes: 0

We choose mania over boredom every time. Votes: 0

I have a really low boredom threshold. Votes: 0

I have a very low boredom threshold. Votes: 0

Love fed fat soon turns to boredom. Votes: 0

Against boredom the gods themselves fight in vain. Votes: 0

Happiness is fugitive; dissatisfaction and boredom are real. Votes: 0

The complete recipe for imagination is absolute boredom. Votes: 0

I'm dying of boredom. Or maybe just dying. Votes: 0

Rules equal boredom, and I don't like that. Votes: 0

The only unhappiness is a life of boredom. Votes: 0

I'm willing to die, but... not of boredom. Votes: 0

boredom was born on a day of uniformity. Votes: 0

There's something dangerous about the boredom of teenage girls. Votes: 0

The enemy of good television is boredom and predictability. Votes: 0

One must choose in life between boredom and suffering. Votes: 0

Remember—boredom is the enemy, not some abstract "failure. Votes: 0

Without lies humanity would perish of despair and boredom. Votes: 0

Sexual boredom is ousting sexual deviance as the problem. Votes: 0

Miss Searle had always considered boredom an intellectual defeat. Votes: 0

The opposite of happiness is not sadness- it's boredom Votes: 0

My despair is less despair than boredom and loneliness. Votes: 0

One should only see a psychiatrist out of boredom. Votes: 0

If I were well behaved, I'd die of boredom. Votes: 0

Worrying is as futile as boredom, but harder work. Votes: 0

An oasis of horror in a desert of boredom. Votes: 0

I would rather die of passion than of boredom. Votes: 0

I would rather die of passion than of boredom. Votes: 0

What people will do to get away from boredom! Votes: 0

One must chose in life between boredom and suffering Votes: 0

Neutrality and boredom are the weapons of the state. Votes: 0

We pay for security with boredom, for adventure with bother. Votes: 0

Patience is the ability to enjoy the calm of boredom. Votes: 0

People are reluctant to cite boredom as grounds for divorce. Votes: 0

The projectors in the theater practically shut down with boredom Votes: 0

Freedom without any purpose feels a whole lot like boredom. Votes: 0

One can be bored until boredom becomes a mystical experience. Votes: 0

Before, for me, peace could have been synonymous with boredom. Votes: 0

In man, at least, satisfaction is commonly followed by boredom. Votes: 0

Discussing how old you are is the temple of boredom. Votes: 0

Work spares us from three evils: boredom, vice, and need. Votes: 0

Violence is spiritual junk food, and boredom is spiritual anorexia. Votes: 0

The inexorable boredom that is at the core of life. Votes: 0

The two real problems in life are boredom and death. Votes: 0

I always say, 'Books beat boredom,' said Amanda wisely. Votes: 0

A sure cure for boredom: fast until you are ravenous. Votes: 0

In small towns, news travels at the speed of boredom. Votes: 0

Idleness allows you to turn a situation from boredom to pleasure. Votes: 0

London is a huge, stony desert: even boredom feels endless there. Votes: 0

I've seen excitement, and I've seen boredom. And boredom was best. Votes: 0

Audience boredom is usually a content failure, not a decoration failure. Votes: 0

Over-excitement and boredom are states of mind which I equally shun. Votes: 0

No-limit hold'em- Hours of boredom followed by moments of sheer terror. Votes: 0

I see the children with their boredom and their vacant stares. Votes: 0

There's nothing like impending death to rouse you from existential boredom. Votes: 0

Only the most acute and active animals are capable of boredom. Votes: 0

There are people who think death a fate worse than boredom. Votes: 0

But maybe boredom is erotic, when women do it, for men. Votes: 0

Want and boredom are indeed the twin poles of human life. Votes: 0

Not a single person has died of boredom reading this book. Votes: 0

There are only two emotions in a plane: boredom and terror. Votes: 0

The Postmodernists' tyranny wears people down by boredom and semi-literate prose. Votes: 0

If I planned everything out in advance, I'd expire of boredom. Votes: 0

The existential vacuum manifests itself mainly in a state of boredom. Votes: 0

Audacious ribald: your laughter will finish in hideous boredom before morning. Votes: 0

BOREDOM with established truths is a great enemy of free men. Votes: 0

You've eased my boredom for quite a while, haven't you? -Ryuk Votes: 0

Airline travel is hours of boredom interrupted by moments of stark terror. Votes: 0

The most costly disease is boredom costly for both individual and society. Votes: 0

Adrenalin dispels boredom. Run, you sufferers from ennui! Run for your lives! Votes: 0

The life of pleasure breeds boredom. The life of duty breeds resentment. Votes: 0

Life swings like a pendulum backward and forward between pain and boredom. Votes: 0

Condition de l'homme: inconstance, ennui, inquie tude. Man's condition. Inconstancy, boredom, anxiety. Votes: 0

Is boredom anything less than the sense of one's faculties slowly dying? Votes: 0

Books - the best antidote against the marsh-gas of boredom and vacuity Votes: 0

Beneath a mask of selfish tranquility nothing exists except bitterness and boredom. Votes: 0

To the elitist hedonist, life is the avoidance of boredom and routine. Votes: 0

He managed to convey indifference, contempt, and boredom in the one word. Votes: 0

Maybe happiness too is a metaphor invented on a day of boredom Votes: 0

I did nine episodes of 'John Doe.' I died of boredom. Votes: 0

If you're not part of the freaks, you're part of the boredom. Votes: 0

Without a job all there is to life is boredom and insecurity. Votes: 0

boredom has a tendency to bring out the worst in people's faces. Votes: 0

The way to recognize a dead word is that it exudes boredom. Votes: 0

One must, in one's life, make a choice between boredom and suffering. Votes: 0

Idleness or boredom has no place in the life of a Christian. Votes: 0

For all the boredom the straight life brings, it's not too bad. Votes: 0

The presidency has many problems, but boredom is the least of them. Votes: 0

I always liked routine. I suppose I never found boredom very boring. Votes: 0

I write at high speed because boredom is bad for my health. Votes: 0

Much is forgiven anyone who relieves the desperate boredom of the working press. Votes: 0

Obesity is a mental state, a disease brought on by boredom and disappointment. Votes: 0

The emptiness of our boredom met with the emptiness of these supposed signs. Votes: 0

My definition of what makes a journey wholly or partially horrible is boredom. Votes: 0

The opposite of love is indifference, and the opposite of happiness is boredom. Votes: 0

There is something more terrible than a hell of suffering--a hell of boredom. Votes: 0

The function of music is to release us from the boredom of existence. Votes: 0

Despair leads to boredom, electronic games, computer hacking, poetry and other bad habits. Votes: 0

I always think boredom is to some extent the fault of the bored. Votes: 0

Mid-grade readers don't have short attention spans, they just have low boredom tolerance. Votes: 0

When we learn to TOLERATE boredom, we find out who we really are. Votes: 0

The laws that keep us safe, these same laws condemn us to boredom. Votes: 0

Americans don't want drama, especially good drama, they just want their boredom killed. Votes: 0

I fear the boredom that comes with not learning and not taking chances. Votes: 0

If you're afraid to take risks in anything in life, it's just boredom. Votes: 0

The boredom of married life inevitable destroys love, when love has preceded marriage. Votes: 0

From every Englishman emanates a kind of gas, the deadly choke-damp of boredom. Votes: 0

Defeat is a thing of weariness, of incoherence, of boredom, and above all futility. Votes: 0

Turning fifty ... is like flying: hours of boredom punctuated by moments of sheer terror. Votes: 0

Despite the boredom of the infinity, we want life not shorter than the eternity! Votes: 0

In marketing you must choose between boredom, shouting and seduction. Which do you want? Votes: 0

To fool a judge, feign fascination, but to bamboozle the whole court, feign boredom. Votes: 0

[On Senator Everett Dirksen:] His great enemy was boredom and he won every engagement. Votes: 0

What is boredom? It is when there is simultaneously too much and not enough. Votes: 0

I can excuse everything but boredom. Boring people don't have to stay that way. Votes: 0

Perhaps the world's second worst crime is boredom. The first is being a bore. Votes: 0

There are 6 reasons that a person does anything: Love, faith, greed, boredom, fear... revenge. Votes: 0

People of Wealth and the so called upper class suffer the most from boredom. Votes: 0

People of Wealth and the so called upper class suffer the most from boredom. Votes: 0

Passions are less mischievous than boredom, for passions tend to diminish and boredom increase. Votes: 0

The essence of boredom is to be found in the obsessive search for novelty. Votes: 0

In the years since, I've discovered there's a lot to be said for boredom. Votes: 0

People with a high tolerance for boredom can get a lot of thinking done. Votes: 0

I never go to where's a risk. I'm frightened of dangers down to boredom. Votes: 0

We have a world of pleasure to win, and nothing to lose but boredom. Votes: 0

The chief product of an automated society is a widespread and deepening sense of boredom. Votes: 0

Many people, especially women, never experience boredom because they have never learned to work properly. Votes: 0

The prospect of being pleased tomorrow will never console me for the boredom of today. Votes: 0

We have seen the best minds of our generation destroyed by boredom at poetry readings. Votes: 0

I have often thought that when I do die it will be of sheer boredom... Votes: 0

The only way to live a long life is in a state of constant boredom. Votes: 0

Escape from boredom is one of the really powerful desires of almost all human beings. Votes: 0

Work is the world's easiest escape from boredom and the only surefire road to success. Votes: 0

Give me boredom. At least I know where I'm going to eat and sleep tonight. Votes: 0

I have to start my real life soon, before I die of boredom and frustration. Votes: 0

There is only one thing worse than boredom, and that is the fear of boredom. Votes: 0

Flying is hours and hours of boredom sprinkled with a few seconds of sheer terror. Votes: 0

There's too much down time making movies. That leads to boredom. And that leads to trouble. Votes: 0

They had not yet attained the stupefying boredom of omnipotence; their experiments did not always succeed. Votes: 0

Do you suppose the human race invented boredom to make the prospect of death more palatable? Votes: 0

I wanted to get that sense of peace and even boredom that comes with long familiarity. Votes: 0

Never in the history of boredom has anyone been more bored than I am right now. Votes: 0

This is the curse of our age, even the strangest aberrations are no cure for boredom. Votes: 0

A subject for a great poet would be God's boredom after the seventh day of creation. Votes: 0

Without optimism & self-belief among teachers, classrooms become wastelands of boredom & routine and schools deserts of lost opportunity. Votes: 0

The concept of boredom entails an inability to use up present moments in a personally fulfilling way. Votes: 0

Grasp your opportunities, no matter how poor your health; nothing is worse for your health than boredom. Votes: 0

Something doing every minute' may be a gesture of despair-or the height of a battle against boredom. Votes: 0

Vanity, revenge, loneliness, boredom, all apply: lust is one of the least of the reasons for promiscuity. Votes: 0

He found himself in habiting the vast, empty plateau where most people live, between boredom and contentment. Votes: 0

A utopia cannot, by definition, include boredom, but the 'utopia' we are living in is boring. Votes: 0

We try to 'self-medicate' ourselves against boredom with mobile phones in any given moment of free time. Votes: 0

God created woman. And boredom did indeed cease from that moment-but many other things ceased as well! Votes: 0

Anthropocentrism gave rise to boredom, and when anthropomorphism was replaced by technocentrism, boredom became even more profound. Votes: 0

His boredom was like a nostalgia for the whole world. He was homesick for everywhere but here. Votes: 0

Think of new ways to do old things. You must protect against boredom in a practice situation. Votes: 0

The essence of life is the smile of round female bottoms, under the shadow of cosmic boredom. Votes: 0

Emptiness and boredom: what a complete understatement. What I felt was complete desolation. Desolation, despair and boredom. Votes: 0

True will-power and courage are not on the battlefield, but in everyday conquests over our intertia, laziness, boredom. Votes: 0

Amusement is a way of boredom-avoidance through external stimulation that fails to exercise our minds. It's mere diversion. Votes: 0

Running through things because you are familiar with them, breeds routine and this is the seed of boredom. Votes: 0

Even boredom should be described with gusto. How many things are happening on a day when nothing happens? Votes: 0

I can't keep myself from playing roles. The emotionless decadent, looking for diversion from boredom, is a favorite. Votes: 0

Net neutrality: The only two words that promise more boredom in the English language are 'featuring Sting,' Votes: 0

I have the impression that if he didn't complicate his life so needlessly, he would die of boredom. Votes: 0

They say that adultery is the main thing that can damage a marriage, but it's not. It's boredom. Votes: 0

Don't try to 'fix' the child's boredom - rather, let the child find his or her inner resources. Votes: 0

I mean, evil and boredom. Evil and ennui. Evil and the lack of stimulation. Evil and sluggish blood. Votes: 0

I suppose kids probably know less boredom these days - or at least a different kind of boredom. Votes: 0

I have come to believe that holy boredom is good and sufficient reason for the invention of free will. Votes: 0

Alcohol and marijuana, if used in moderation, plus loud, usually low-class music, make stress and boredom infinitely more bearable. Votes: 0

Good digestions, the gray monotony of provincial life, and the boredom-ah the soul-destroying boredom-of long days of mild content. Votes: 0

This Marxian sentence, repeated to the point of boredom, is misinterpreted. In reality [Karl] Marx was a "religious" man. Votes: 0

I love heights. I love speed. Im on the verge of being a pyromaniac. Maybe my phobia is boredom. Votes: 0

Don't be afraid to let yourself get bored because some of the most amazing things are created through boredom. Votes: 0

People say that jealousy is the greatest enemy of love. They're wrong. The greatest enemy of love is boredom. Votes: 0

Work is the law of life, and to reject it as boredom is to submit to it as torment. Votes: 0

I have no tolerance for boredom. I spend so many hours in the office, and I still love it. Votes: 0

Hell is more like boredom, or not having enough to do, and too much time to contemplate one's deficiencies. Votes: 0

I fell asleep reading a dull book and dreamed I kept on reading, so I awoke from sheer boredom. Votes: 0

i'm a slave to my emotions, to my likes, to my hatred of boredom, to most of my desires Votes: 0

The main thing I got from growing up in a suburb is the boredom you have as a child. Votes: 0

Every time I think I've touched bottom as far as boredom is concerned, new vistas of ennui open up. Votes: 0

The effect of boredom on a large scale in history is underestimated. It is a main cause of revolutions. Votes: 0

To die for the sake of dying - I prefer to die of passion than to die of boredom! Votes: 0

Variety is more than a means of avoiding boredom, since art is more than an entertainment of the senses. Votes: 0

It is remarkable, in cats, that the outer life they reveal to their masters is one of perpetual boredom. Votes: 0

As actors, the thing we have to fight, more than even the business part of making movies, is boredom. Votes: 0

...boredom is all about perception. It's a self-diagnosis, plain and simple. If you don't realize you're bored, you're not. Votes: 0

The one sure means of dealing with boredom is to care for someone else, to do something kind and good. Votes: 0

So eager to die are you? (Zakar) Not particularly, but I'd rather go down clubbing Kessar than from boredom. (Kat) Votes: 0

Men become utilitarian out of fear of the alternative the chaos of tangled or tepid desires, of rootlessness and boredom. Votes: 0

It is only a step from boredom to disillusionment, which leads naturally to self-pity, which in turn ends in chaos Votes: 0

The average man gets his living by such depressing devices that boredom becomes a sort of natural state to him. Votes: 0

Only now do I understand the war against boredom, the lost cause of empty hours, of empty days and nights. Votes: 0

When you consider how epidemic boredom is in our time, you have to concede that entertaining is a healing art. Votes: 0

Filming is like a long air journey: there's so much hanging around and boredom that they keep giving you food. Votes: 0

One would expect boredom to be a great yawning emotion, but it isn't, of course. It's a small niggling thing. Votes: 0

The problem in public life is learning to overcome terror; the problem in married life is learning to overcome boredom. Votes: 0

A typical day is full of anxiety and boredom. Flow experiences provide the flashes of intense living against this dull background. Votes: 0

My girlfriend's packed her bags and moved out to another town, she couldn't stand the boredom when the video broke down. Votes: 0

our triumphant age of plenty is riddled with darker feelings of doubt, cynicism, distrust, boredom and a strange kind of emptiness Votes: 0

Probably the difference between man and the monkeys is that the monkeys are merely bored, while man has boredom plus imagination. Votes: 0

The worst thing in life is boredom. When people don't know what to do with themselves, they are very, very poor. Votes: 0

In love there are no vacations. No such thing. Love has to be lived fully with its boredom and all that. Votes: 0

Who does not recall school at least in part as endless dreary hours of boredom punctuated by moments of high anxiety? Votes: 0

Hard work never killed a man. Men die of boredom, psychological conflict, and disease. They do not die of hard work. Votes: 0

In one terrible instant, that terrible thing happened, the single most tragic experience of my, and just about any, childhood: boredom. Votes: 0

Enjoyment appears at the boundary between boredom and anxiety, when the challenges are just balanced with the person's capacity to act. Votes: 0

The worst pair of opposites is boredom and terror. Sometimes your life is a pendulum swing from one to the other. Votes: 0

My life is a black hole of boredom and despair." "So basically you've been doing homework." "Like I said, black hole. Votes: 0

If at any moment Time stays his hand, it is only when we are delivered over to the miseries of boredom. Votes: 0

This is the treason of the artist: a refusal to admit the banality of evil and the terrible boredom of pain. Votes: 0

Being a [bank] director is like being a pilot of an aircraft - it's years of boredom and seconds of terror. Votes: 0

For Heidegger, boredom is a privileged fundamental mood because it leads us directly into the very problem complex of being and time. Votes: 0

One wonders what would happen in a society where there were no rules to break. Doubtlessly everyone would quickly die of boredom. Votes: 0

War is sometimes described as long periods of boredom punctuated by short moments of excitement. History is often similar, if rather safer. Votes: 0

Levity is the lubricant of a crisis. We resort to jokes, pranks and good natured kidding to relieve tension, stress and boredom. Votes: 0

The temptation to quit and start over infects every creative process I've ever been in. Frustration and boredom always fuel this self-doubt. Votes: 0

The word aerobics comes from two Greek words: aero, meaning “ability to,” and bics, meaning “withstand tremendous boredom. Votes: 0

The life of the creative man is lead, directed and controlled by boredom. Avoiding boredom is one of our most important purposes. Votes: 0

Desire is always followed by boredom. And only love can defeat boredom. Love with a capital L; we all dream of it. Votes: 0

Man needs air, man needs water, man needs food and man needs adventure also! Adventure is a medicine for the infinite boredom. Votes: 0

Retiring and discovering that you no longer have enough energy to enjoy life and dying a few years out of sheer boredom. Votes: 0

As soon as you set foot on a yacht you belong to some man, not to yourself, and you die of boredom. Votes: 0

Squeeze marriage as much as you like, you will never extract anything from it but fun for bachelors and boredom for husbands. Votes: 0

Martin in particular concluded that man was born to live either in the convulsions of misery, or in the lethargy of boredom. Votes: 0

As for boredom ... I notice that it leaves me as soon as I am doing something that has got to be done. Votes: 0

Utopia was here at last: its novelty had not yet been assailed by the supreme enemy of a ll Utopias - boredom. Votes: 0

Who wants a world in which the guarantee that we shall not die of starvation entails the risk of dying of boredom? Votes: 0

Unless one is taught what to do with success after getting it, achievement of it must inevitably leave him prey to boredom. Votes: 0

Desire is always followed by boredom. And only love can defeat boredom. Love with a capital L; we all dream of it. Votes: 0

Many books are longer than they seem. They have indeed no end. The boredom that they cause is truly absolute and infinite. Votes: 0

Clarice has a curious chemical reaction to boredom and the result can be similar to dynamite in the hands of a lunatic ... Votes: 0

No society ever seems to have succumbed to boredom. Man has developed an obvious capacity for surviving the pompous reiteration of the commonplace. Votes: 0

When I write love songs, people think they're really soppy - but I see love as a consolation for the boredom of life. Votes: 0

There is nothing frightening about an eternal dreamless sleep. Surely it is better than eternal torment in Hell and eternal boredom in Heaven. Votes: 0

One wonders what would happen in a society in which there were no rules to break. Doubtless everyone would quickly die of boredom. Votes: 0

Nature is unfair? So much the better, inequality is the only bearable thing, the monotony of equality can only lead us to boredom. Votes: 0

HUMAN BEINGS MAKE LIFE SO INTERESTING. DO YOU KNOW, THAT IN A UNIVERSE SO FULL OF WONDERS, THEY HAVE MANAGED TO INVENT BOREDOM. (Death) Votes: 0

Greedhas no satiation point, since its consummation does not fill the inner emptiness, boredom, loneliness, and depression it is meant to overcome. Votes: 0

They're a redefinition of boredom... the most important thing you need to know about an awards show is where is the nearest smoking opportunity. Votes: 0

The most total opposite of pleasure is not pain but boredom, for we are willing to risk pain to make a boring life interesting. Votes: 0

Death: Human beings make life so interesting. Do you know, that in a universe so full of wonders, they have managed to invent boredom. Votes: 0

My chronic feelings of emptiness and boredom came from the fact that I was living a life based on my incapacities, which were numerous. Votes: 0

Fidgeting and boredom are the symptoms of fear of emptiness, which we try to fill up with whatever we can lay our hands on. Votes: 0

What's the use of talking? You can see for yourself that this is a barbarous country; the people have no morals; and the boredom! Votes: 0

In a world where thrushes sing and willow trees are golden in the spring, boredom should have been included among the seven deadly sins. Votes: 0

Most people can't handle boredom. That means they can't stay on one thing until they get good at it. And they wonder why they're unhappy. Votes: 0

Sometimes many publishers prefer that you write the same book every time, but I have a low boredom threshold so that isn't going to happen. Votes: 0

I looked out the window for other passengers in love with their drivers, but we were well disguised, we pretended boredom and prayed for traffic. Votes: 0

Papa's love did indeed have wondrous properties: it not only compensated for her boredom and anxiety, it was the cause of her boredom and anxiety. Votes: 0

I did not love you out or boredom or loneliness or caprice. I loved you because the desire for you was stronger than any happiness. Votes: 0

Do you realise that people die of boredom in London suburbs? It's the second biggest cause of death amongs the English in general. Sheer boredom... Votes: 0

A great affliction of all Philistines is that idealities afford them no entertainment, but to escape from boredom they are always in need of realities. Votes: 0

You searched through all my poets, From Sappho through to Auden, I saw the book fall from your hands, As you slowly died of boredom. Votes: 0

I am unpacking my library. Yes I am. The books are not yet on the shelves, not yet touched by the mild boredom of order. Votes: 0

These are the Seven Deadly Sins: Avarice, Envy, Pride, Gluttony, Lust, Anger, Sloth. These are the seven deadly sins: venality, paranoia, insecurity, excess, carnality, contempt, boredom. Votes: 0

No man ever dared to manifest his boredom so insolently as does a Siamese tomcat when he yawns in the face of his amorously importunate wife. Votes: 0

A month passes by and brings another month. Easy to guess what lies ahead: all of yesterday's boredom. And tomorrow ends up no longer like tomorrow. Votes: 0

Down time is where we become ourselves... a hiatus that passes for boredom but is really the quiet moving of the wheels inside that fuel creativity. Votes: 0

Of course, true love is exceptional - two or three times a century, more or less. The rest of the time there is vanity or boredom. Votes: 0

To be, in a word, unborable.... It is the key to modern life. If you are immune to boredom, there is literally nothing you cannot accomplish Votes: 0

I don't like being in one place too long. Five days just about does it for me because I have a very low threshold for boredom. Votes: 0

To do the same thing over and over again is not only boredom: it is to be controlled by rather than to control what you do. Votes: 0

Flying to me isn't scary, it's just incredibly boring. And I guess I have a fear of boredom, so in that regard, I'm afraid to fly. Votes: 0

It seems that boredom is one of the greatest discoveries of our time. If so, there's no question but that he must be considered a pioneer. Votes: 0

It is not enough to accept boredom, you must embrace it. It is only when you have completely embraced it that you can go beyond it. Votes: 0

While my insides may be rotten, I still like a good reason to kill someone. It has to be either business, personal, or out of sheer boredom. Votes: 0

What strange impulse is it which induces otherwise truthful people to say they like music when they do not, and thus expose themselves to hours of boredom? Votes: 0

God could cause us considerable embarrassment by revealing all the secrets of nature to us: we should not know what to do for sheer apathy and boredom. Votes: 0

There happen to be whole large parts of adult American life that nobody talks about in commencement speeches. One such part involves boredom, routine, and petty frustration. Votes: 0

By his very success in inventing labor-saving devices, modern man has manufactured an abyss of boredom that only the privileged classes in earlier civilizations have ever fathomed. Votes: 0

The days hardened with cold and boredom like last year's loaves of bread. One began to cut them with blunt knives without appetite, with a lazy indifference. Votes: 0

Love alone is not enough. Without imagination, love stales into sentiment, duty, boredom. Relationships fail not because we have stopped loving but because we first stopped imagining. Votes: 0

If there was no New Orleans, America would just be a bunch of free people dying of boredom." -Judy Deck in an e-mail sent to Chris Rose Votes: 0

Chronic boredom compensated or uncompensated constitutes one of the major psychopathological phenomena in contemporary technotronic society, although it is only recently that it has found some recognition. Votes: 0

For boredom speaks the language of time, and it is to teach you the most valuable lesson of your life - the lesson of your utter insignificance. Votes: 0

I am convinced that boredom is one of the greatest tortures. If I were to imagine Hell, it would be the place where you were continually bored. Votes: 0

My attitude toward progress has passed from antagonism to boredom. I have long ceased to argue with people who prefer Thursday to Wednesday because it is Thursday. Votes: 0

Banality is like boredom: bored people are boring people, people who think that things are banal are themselves banal. Interesting people can find something interesting in all things. Votes: 0

They were connoisseurs of boredom. They savoured the various bouquets of the subtly differentiated boredoms which rose from the long, wasted hours at the dead end of night. Votes: 0

A man who experiences no genuine satisfaction in life does not want peace. Men court war to escape meaninglessness and boredom, to be relieved of fear and frustration. Votes: 0

Want to snatch a day from the manacles of boredom? Do overgenerous deeds, acts beyond reimbursement. Kindness without compensation. Do a deed for which you cannot be repaid. Votes: 0

We come from a long line of people who live to read boring texts "“ I think it may be why we all die young. Complete boredom. (Geary) Votes: 0

Only the most acute and active animals are capable of boredom. - A theme for a great poet would be God's boredom on the seventh day of creation. Votes: 0

He regards boredom, I observe, as the One and Mighty Enemy of his soul. And will succeed in conquering it, I am sure—if he survives the experience. Votes: 0

If I have to spend prolonged periods of time in a trailer, I go mad. Stuck in a metal box doing nothing, I lie there paralysed with boredom. Votes: 0

I trust that the current knows where it is going. I shall let go, and let it take me where it will. Clinging, I shall die of boredom. Votes: 0

It's the boredom that kills you. You read until you're tired of that. You do crossword puzzles until you're tired of that. This is torture. This is mental torture. Votes: 0

Education must enable young people to effect what they have recognized to be right, despite hardships, despite dangers, despite inner skepticism, despite boredom, and despite mockery from the world. . . . Votes: 0

It's precisely in those moments when I don't know what to do, boredom drives one to try a host of possibilities to either get somewhere or not get anywhere. Votes: 0

Music is a place to take refuge. It's a sanctuary from mediocrity and boredom. It's innocent and it's a place you can lose yourself in thoughts, memories and intricacies. Votes: 0

No other species flees from boredom with as much urgency as we do. We are far more eager to do brain work than we are to do physical labor. Votes: 0

Both in their origins and effects, boredom and stuffy air resemble each other. They are usually generated whenever a large number of people gather together in a closed room. Votes: 0

All our life passes in this way: we seek rest by struggling against certain obstacles, and once they are overcome, rest proves intolerable because of the boredom it produces. Votes: 0

Nothing is so stifling as symmetry. Symmetry is boredom, the quintessence of mourning. Despair yawns. There is something more terrible than a hell of suffering - a hell of boredom. Votes: 0

The essence of boredom is to be found in the obsessive search for novelty. Satisfaction lies in mindful repetition, the discovery of endless richness in subtle variations on familiar themes. Votes: 0

Nature is interested in only two things--to survive and to reproduce one like itself. Anything you superimpose on that, all the cultural input, is responsible for the boredom of man. Votes: 0

All sizes of film sets have the same level of excitement and friction and tension and then vast sections of boredom that define the process, so I love it all. Votes: 0

People can insert thoughts into your mind. This is more dangerous for psychic people. Use concentration exercises and read to combat this; boredom is an easy way to be drained. Votes: 0

One mood can be replaced by another, but it is impossible to leave attunement altogether. However, profound boredom brings us as close to a state of un-attunement as we can come. Votes: 0

The glance embroiders in joy, knits in pain, and sews in boredom.When indifferent, the eye takes stills, when interested, movies.Laughter is regional: a smile extends over the whole face. Votes: 0

None will ever be a true Parisian who has not learned to wear a mask of gaiety over his sorrows and one of sadness, boredom, or indifference over his inward joy. Votes: 0

If you really want a life which has no boredom in it, drop all masks, be true. Sometimes it will be difficult, I know, but it is worth it. Be true. Votes: 0

Life is first boredom, then fear. Whether or not we use it, it goes, And leaves what something hidden from us chose, And age, and then the only end of age. Votes: 0

Every brand builder will face a million temptations to obscure, dilute, or confuse his or her brand message. These temptations fall under two general headings: boredom and the desire for growth. Votes: 0

Man's need for art is absolutely primordial, as strong as, and perhaps stronger than, our need for bread. Without bread, we die of hunger, but without art we die of boredom. Votes: 0

We're no longer bored - in fact we're petrified of being alone with ourselves getting bored. Yet boredom is the foundation for creativity - an asset slowly disappearing from our world. Votes: 0

According to Gur's theory of boredom, everything that happens in the world today is because of boredom: love, war, inventions, fake fireplaces - ninety-five percent of all that is pure boredom. Votes: 0

My boredom threshold is low at the best of times but I have spent more time being slowly and excruciatingly bored by children than any other section of the human race. Votes: 0

You couldn't get a decent drink in either of them, for a start. And the boredom you got in Heaven was almost as bad as the excitement you got in Hell. Votes: 0

Everyone will recognize that each sound carries with it a tangle of sensations, already well-known and exhausted, which predispose the listener to boredom, in spite of the efforts of all musical innovators. Votes: 0

It is fatal to know too much at the outcome: boredom comes as quickly to the traveler who knows his route as to the novelist who is over certain of his plot. Votes: 0

Anxiety is essential to the human condition. The confrontation with anxiety can relieve us from boredom, sharpen the sensitivity and assure the presence of tension that is necessary to preserve human existence. Votes: 0

I've never been someone who's very prone to boredom. I don't know, boredom seems like something you should grow out of at about 15 or 16. There's so much that needs to be done. Votes: 0

Many people try to avoid pressure, yet the absence of any tension or pressure usually creates a sense of boredom and the lackluster experience of life that so many people complain about. Votes: 0

If you want to cure boredom, be curious. If you're curious, nothing is a chore; it's automatic - you want to study. Cultivate curiosity, and life becomes an unending study of joy. Votes: 0

Jonathan Seagull discovered that boredom and fear and anger are the reasons that a gull's life is so short, and with those gone from his thought, he lived a long fine life indeed. Votes: 0

It seems to me that all of the evil in life comes from idleness, boredom, and psychic emptiness, but all of that is inevitable when you become accustomed to living at others' expense. Votes: 0

I guess that as life is speeded up and our capacity for concentration is being nibbled away at by all the obvious things, that leads us actually to be more susceptible to boredom. Votes: 0

Humor and laughter - not necessarily derogatory derision - are my pet tools. This may come from my general philosophy of never taking the world too seriously - for fear of dying of boredom. Votes: 0

We all know how important love is, yet how often is it really emoted or exhibited? What so many sick people in this world suffer from-loneliness, boredom and fear-can't be cured with a pill. Votes: 0

Punk was a protest against work and against boredom. It was a sign of life, a rant, a scream, a rejection of bourgeois morals. But have things improved since then? Arguably, they've got worse. Votes: 0

To escape boredom, man works either beyond what his usual needs require, or else he invents play, that is, work that is designed to quiet no need other than that for working in general. Votes: 0

It is not the simple statement of facts that ushers in freedom; it is the constant repetition of them that has this liberating effect. Tolerance is the result not of enlightenment, but of boredom. Votes: 0

It's all there-the boredom, the devotion, the horror and even the humor in an industrial war fought on a global scale that we'll never see again. Unit histories just do not get any better. Votes: 0

Maybe you reach a certain point in evolution where boredom is the greatest threat to your survival. Maybe this isn't a planetary takeover at all, but a game. Like a kid pulling wings off flies. Votes: 0

We shop out of boredom, for release, for excitement, for a sense of achievement, for a sense of control over our unruly existences. And every so often, we shop because we need something to wear. Votes: 0

I always liked routine. I suppose I never found boredom very boring. I doubted I could explain it to someone like Margo but drawing circles through life struck me as a kind of reasonable insanity. Votes: 0

There's a rebirth that goes on with us continuously as human beings. I don't understand, personally, how you can be bored. I can understand how you can be depressed, but I just don't understand boredom. Votes: 0