408 quotes found
“I am stuck in traffic in a taxicabwhich is typicaland not just of modern life”
“What we colloquially call 'feeling bored' is just the mind, acting out of a self-preserving reflex, ejecting information it has despaired of knowing where to place.”
“and now i am back in the grey world where it tastes like plastic, the monotony is buzzing through my jaws and the boredom is pulling my hair.”
“I truly believe that the boredom of illness is parlous to one's health”
“It's the way a man chooses to limit himself that determines his character. A man without habits, consistency, redundancy - and hence boredom - is not human. He's insane.”
“Writing is a defence against boredom, but it's also a cure for melancholy.”
“You don't usually think of boredom as something similar to pain. That's because you've only been exposed to it in relatively small doses. You dont know its true colour. The difference between the b...”
“She, who was bored almost to agony, and who had nothing at all to do, she had not time to think even, seriously, of anything. Time being, after all, only the current of the soul in its flow.”
“Don't be afraid to let yourself get bored because some of the most amazing things are created through boredom.”
“Boredom is restlessness of the soul. It is an internal message reminding you that you're better than the stagnancy you've settled for.”
“Soon, what was tedious was everything. 'Beautiful things, they're so tedious! Paintings, they're enough to drive you mad...How right you are, it's so tedious, writing letters!' In the end it was li...”
“Where have I been? she wondered. Is a life that can now be considered an absence a life?For some time things had been going badly for her. She could cite nothing in particular as a problem; rather,...”
“I am terrified of being bored.”
“But her life was as cold as an attic facing north; and boredom, like a silent spider, was weaving its web in the shadows, in every corner of her heart.”
“It is not uncommon for fighters camps to be gloomy. In heavy training, fighters live in dimensions of boredom others do not begin to contemplate. Fighters are supposed to. The boredom creates an im...”
“Eternal Boredom Of The Strifeless Mind”
“His eagerness had turned into a routine; he embraced her at the same time every day. It was a habit like any other, a favourite pudding after the monotony of dinner.”
“Moderation is the key to old age and the doorway to boredom”
“I became bored - that was all. Boredom, which is another name and a frequent disguise for vitality, became the unconscious motive of all my acts.”
“Boredom is actually a sign of ambition. So act on it.”
