408 quotes found
“I am near fourteen and have never yet seen a hanging. My life is barren.”
“Didn't you tell me smoking ruined your stamina as a boxer? ...Ruined is a strong word, I'd say....It helps fight boredom. It gives you more to do and less time to do it in.”
“The boring thing about being interesting is that you bore boring people.”
“Boredom is vastly underrated. Boredom means that nothing is trying to kill you every day.”
“What an odd creature you are, Bernard, with your constant fear of death! Do you never have a feeling, as I do, of utter futility? No? Doesn't it occur to you that the sort of life people like us le...”
“Boredom is a symptom of a conditioned and closed mind. If you are bored, youre doing yourself a tremendous disservice. Open your mind, break-free from your conditioned routine, and reignite the fla...”
“Tedium is a dangerous thing, potentially lethal.”
“People these days cant seem to tolerate one moment without entertainment!”
“I confess I found it somewhat insipid when I last went....it was all so prosy - so bonnety - so whisty and teacuppy - you see, the adjectives for it do not even exist, and I must invent them.”
“Kumiko and I would visit their home and have dinner with them twice a month with mechanical regularity. This was a truly loathsome experience, situated at the precise midpoint between a meaningless...”
“Boredom is merely a symptom of an apathetic soul.”
“In the years since, I've discovered there's a lot to be said for boredom.”
“One would expect boredom to be a great yawning emotion, but it isn't, of course. It's a small niggling thing.”
“Boredom or discontent is useful to me when I acknowledge it and see clearly my assumption that there's something else I would rather be doing. In this way boredom can act as an invitation to freedo...”
“A bouquet yellow like remorse Hurts my view The cage The wheel The vile ennui of all mankind And no one no one to break my chains!("Outcries")”
“Boredom is peace misunderstood.”
“Many books are longer than they seem. They have indeed no end. The boredom that they cause is truly absolute and infinite.”
“And we were in our thirties. Well into the Age of Boredom, when nothing is new. Now, Im not being self-pitying; its simply true. Newness, or whatever you want to call it, becomes a very scarce comm...”
“So life isn't exciting?" continued Gary. "Great. Give me boredom. At least I know where I'm going to eat and sleep tonight. I'll still have a job on Monday. Yeah?" He turned and looked at Richard.R...”
“She pauses several treads from the bottom, listening, waiting; she is again possessed (it seems to be getting worse) by a dream-like feeling, as if she is standing in the wings, about to go onstage...”
