408 quotes found
“Of course boredom may lead you to anything. It is boredom sets one sticking golden pins into people, but all that would not matter. What is bad (this is my comment again) is that I dare say people ...”
“My despair is less despair than boredom and loneliness.”
“We did everything possible to keep up the spirits of the men, but it was exceedingly difficult because there was nothing for them to do.”
“Never underestimate the determination of a kid who is time-rich and cash-poor.”
“- What do you expect? Think we were sent into the world to have a soft time and what is it? Float on flowery beds of ease? Think Man was just made to be happy?- Why not? Though I've never discovere...”
“Everyone is a bore to someone. That is unimportant. The thing to avoid is being a bore to oneself.”
“Every day is important for us because it is a day ordained by God. If we are bored with life there is something wrong with our concept of God and His involvement in our daily lives. Even the most d...”
“Martin in particular concluded that man was born to live either in the convulsions of misery, or in the lethargy of boredom.”
“Sir Leicester is generally in a complacent state, and rarely bored. When he has nothing else to do, he can always contemplate his own greatness. It is a considerable advantage to a man to have so i...”
“What keeps all living things busy and in motion is the striving to exist. But when existence is secured, they do not know what to do: that is why the second thing that sets them in motion is a stri...”
“Boredom slays more of existence than war.”
“In one terrible instant, that terrible thing happened, the single most tragic experience of my, and just about any, childhood: boredom.”
“There are no uninteresting things, only uninterested people.”
“Suicide" Kissshot said disappointedly .Her eyes were downcast , facing the town spread out below her ."A common reason , one accounting for nine-tenths of vampire deaths"."....."."Incidentally , th...”
“I'm just not having a very good time and I don't have any reason to think it'll get anything but worse. I'm tired. I'm hurt. I'm sad. I feel used.”
“Mama, I know you used to ride the bus. Riding the bus and its hot and bumpy and crowded and too noisy and more than anything in the world you want to get off and the only reason in the world you do...”
“No. You can't. And I can't do anything either, about my life, to change it, make it better, make me feel better about it. Like it better, make it work. But I can stop it. Shut it down, turn it off ...”
“Boring is the right thought at the wrong time.”
“What if there was something essentially wrong with Claude Sylvanshine that wasn't wrong with other people? What if he was simple ill-suited, the way some people are born without limbs or certain or...”
“Boredom is the inner conflict we suffer when we lose desire, when we lack a lacking.”
