408 quotes found
“My heart almost died within me; miserable longings strained its chords. How long were the September days! How silent, how lifeless!”
“He himself was almost never bored, and there was no man with whom it would have been a greater mistake to suppose that silence meant displeasure.”
“Some people are so boring that you are more bored when you are with them than when you are alone.”
“It was hard to listen to her all the time without getting to say anything back”
“Patience is the ability to enjoy the calm of boredom.”
“A lot of impulsive mistakes are made by people who simply arent willing to stay bored a little longer.”
“Philip Yancey sees our blas attitude toward the faithfulness of God in the waitstaff At Yellowstone. Even when they are finished their chores, they don't look up and marvel at the geiser going off....”
“The vacancy left by absence of worship is filled by mere killing of time and by boredom, which is directly related to inability to enjoy leisure; for one can only be bored if the spiritual power to...”
“When compared side by side, my days can barely be distinguished from one another. The only difference is what I do after work and with whom I do it.”
“But I know too that if we ever make a world without shadow, if the chemists and scientists and psychologists succeed in abolishing fear, pain, loneliness, death, some of us will find life so intole...”
“The garden is an unemployed township-based man's cubicle.”
“[] without much ardor but quite unmistakably, she was writhing her hips as if she were dancing. When he was very close, he saw' her gaping mouth: she was yawning lengthily, insatiably: the great op...”
“To drive a woman away, tell her that you are unemployed. To bore her, tell her that you are single.”
“If life the craving for which is the very essence of our being were possessed of any positive intrinsic value, there would be no such thing as boredom at all: mere existence would satisfy us in i...”
“The man who begins to go to bed forty minutes before he opens his bedroom door is bored; that is to say, he is not living.”
“Did perpetual happiness in the Garden of Eden maybe get so boring that eating the apple was justified?”
“This process of assimilation, which takes place in depth, requires a state of relaxation that is becoming rarer and rarer. If sleep is the apogee of physical relaxation, boredom is the apogee of me...”
“But the answer isn't just to intimidate people into consuming more 'serious' news; it is to push so-called serious outlets into learning to present important information in ways that can properly e...”
“Boredom is a powerful reason, and the prospect of fun is a powerful draw - especially when you are young.”
“Tedium and boredom are related, but not identical. Tedium comes from a person lacking an ideology to live by; the dulling fear fomented in the soul after confronting the paucity of life.”
