408 quotes found
“He wondered why he wasn't as in love with her as he was with...Hector had only shared enjoyment with (her)...he shared everything, enjoyment and sorrow...but for some time now they'd shared too muc...”
“Most people cant stand spending a few minutes by themself. Yet they expect others to spend an hour, a day, or, even a lifetime, with them.”
“I suppose, like most young people nowadays, boredom is what you dread most in the world, and yet, I can assure you, there are worse things.”
“We must help men and women see the epic in the ordinary details of life.”
“It seems ironic, expecting the unexpected, like she had fabricated pieces of her story to make it more interesting. Considering my boredom with the current version, I can't imagine the first draft.”
“Poems should be like pins which prick the skin of boredom and leave a glow equal in its pride to the gate of the sadist who stuck the pin and walked away”
“I think I must have invented you on one of those days I was really bored.”
“Everything is boring, boredom is the other epidemic which is making Europe ripe for decline. Boredom is the end product of each and every civilization. It is the arteriosclerosis of the great think...”
“If it weren't for problems, life would be perfect and boring.”
“The nature of the mind is to acquire, to absorb, is it not? Or rather the pattern it has created for itself is one of gathering in, and in that very activity the mind is preparing its own weariness...”
“The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity.”
“I just wish Mary Elizabeth would ask me questions other than What's up?”
“Time is quixotic because it can torment us. When we have insufficient stimulus to fill our lives, we resent the relentless quality of time, and we engage in activities designed to kill time. Time t...”
“I abhor the idea of a perfect world. It would bore me to tears.”
“Sometimes I think evil is a tangible thing - with wave lengths, just as sound and light have.”
“I wanted to reject it all because I was sick of being perfect. I was so bored with normality and dreams of poster boys and tabloid covers.”
“Then he looked up, despite all best prior intentions. In four minutes, it would be another hour; a half hour after that was the ten-minute break. Lane Dean imagined himself running around on the br...”
“Oh, come on. Drama is just life with the dull bits cut out.Well, Im ready for a long patch of boredom.”
“Every instant of every day we are bombarded by information. In fact, all complex organisms, especially those with brains, suffer from information overload. Our eyes and ears receive lights and soun...”
“I went on writing reviews for the newspaper, and critical articles crying out for a different approach to culture, as even the most inattentive reader could hardly fail to notice if he scratched th...”
