408 quotes found
“Suppose boredom is a backstairs to liberation insignificant, and so often overlooked. No one who has not known its higher degrees can claim to have lived. Not the Relative Boredom of long waiting ...”
“Boredom is that agitated space between relaxation and action; dialed down, it can become a pleasant kind of inertia or a meditative stillness, where it feels good to sit quietly with your own thoug...”
“And I'm going to let you in on a little secret about life. You think it's boring now? Well, it only gets more boring. The sooner you learn it's on you to make life interesting, the better off you'l...”
“And besides, I couldn't stay at the party. It was too dangerous. I nearly died.""From what?""Boredom.”
“Boredom the psychological state that we experience whenever we are uninterested in what we are currently doing is one of the defining traits of humanity. Time is the psychological nemesis of huma...”
“Before I shall have become a man again I shall probably exist as a park, a sort of natural park in which people come to rest, to while away the time. What they say or do will be of little matter, f...”
“Make a plan & Use the time when you're thinking about "what to do when your bored”
“There is another way to think about conversation, one that is less about information and more about creating a space to be explored. You are interested in hearing about how another person approache...”
“Boredom is a form of evil; perhaps one of Kierkegaard's characters was more correct when he said, "Boredom is the root of all evil." Boredom is a preview of death, if not itself a form of death, an...”
“This is what a place like this does to you. It makes you put words in the beaks of chickens.”
“I always like routine. I suppose I never found boredom very boring.”
“Socrates tried to soothe us, true enough. He said there were only two possibilities. Either the soul is immortal or, after death, things would be again as blank as they were before we were born. Th...”
“Lady Dedlock is always the same exhausted deity, surrounded by worshippers, and terribly liable to be bored to death, even while presiding at her own shrine.”
“How dreadful boredom is how dreadfully boring; I know no stronger expression, no truer one, for like is recognized only by like I lie prostrate, inert; the only thing I see is emptiness, the only ...”
“When people say they're unemployed, bored, or have nothing to do, I sigh and think, "If only time were transferable.”
“fear comes only when you dont have faith in the outcome. And boredom comes only when you believe theres nothing new worth learning. I simply cant understand how any of that will occur today.”
“Boredom is certainly not an evil to be taken lightly: it will ultimately etch lines of true despair onto a face. It makes beings with as little love for each other as humans nonetheless seek each o...”
“We're dying of boredom, Corporal, that's the problem.' [Blend] 'If boredom was fatal there wouldn't be a soldier alive on this whole world, Blend.' [Picker]”
“But even those five-and-forty minutes were too long, the bored me --and boredom is the coldest thing in the world.”
“To grow interested in any piece of information, we need somewhere to 'put' it, which means some way of connecting it to an issue we already now how to care about.”
