408 quotes found
“To the non-combatants and those on the periphery of action, the war meant only boredom or occasional excitement, but to those who entered the meat grinder itself the war was a netherworld of horror...”
“For Heidegger, boredom is a privileged fundamental mood because it leads us directly into the very problem complex of being and time.”
“Court life for a queen of France at that time was, however, stultifyingly routine. Eleanor found that she was expected to be no more than a decorative asset to her husband, the mother of his heirs ...”
“You are not told that while you try to eliminate your boredom by playing games and chatting on social media or watching movies and making unnecessary phone calls your life is diminishing into vanity. ”
“I know so much pressure is on all of us to waste time and to just trivialize it. There is so much pressure on us to try to overcome boredom by spending time on frivolities.”
“There is so much pressure on us to try to overcome boredom by spending time on frivolities.”
“People who understands how to convert their time into useful products do not complain of boredom.”
“Only boring people are bored in relationships.”
“...people can go to church every week of their lives and never go all in with Jesus Christ. I'm afraid we've cheapened the gospel by allowing people to buy in without selling out. We've made it too...”
“Boredom is the dream bird that hatches the egg of experience. A rustling in the leaves drives him away.”
“Restlessness is usually a sign of changes needing to be made, boredom, or loss of significance.”
“I should think a dead language would be rather boring, sociallyspeaking.”
“Any country where I am not bored is a country that teaches me nothing.”
“He was bored now when Emma suddenly began to sob on his breast; and his heart, like the people who can only stand a certain amount of music, became drowsy through indifference to the vibrations of ...”
“Going to see plays isn't what you people should do. Try looking at yourselves a little more often and see what gray lives you all lead. How much of what you say is unnecessary.”
“Because my life is empty window of nothingness punctuated by meaningless details of totally mundane non-events.”
“Dullness. Only humans could have invented it. What imaginations they had.”
“Our age has become so mechanical that this has also affected our recreation. People have gotten used to sitting down and watching a movie, a ball game, a television set. It may be good once in a wh...”
“...I also believe that introversion is my greatest strength. I have such a strong inner life that Im never bored and only occasionally lonely. No matter what mayhem is happening around me, I know I...”
“The price of being a sheep is boredom. The price of being a wolf is loneliness. Choose one or the other with great care.”
