408 quotes found
“Boredom is essentially a thwarted desire for events, not necessarily pleasant ones, but just occurrences such as will enable the victim of ennui to know one day from another. The opposite of boredo...”
“Boredom is the root of all evil. It is very curious that boredom, which itself has such a calm and sedate nature, can have such a capacity to initiate motion. The effect that boredom brings about i...”
“No more Guernicas, no more Auschwitzes, no more Hiroshimas, no more Setifs. Hooray! But what about the impossibility of living, what about this stifling mediocrity and this absence of passion? What...”
“Life has been reduced to a series of long periods of boredom in the office punctuated by high-octane experiences which you can rack up on your list of things to do before you die. Thats not really ...”
“What a difference! Under the esthetic sky, everything is buoyant, beautiful, transient! when ethics arrives on the scene, everything becomes harsh, angular and infinitely boring”
“My greatest discovery has been my love of boredom and to get fun out of it.”
“Whosoever possesses a camera should never know boredom.”
“Worry is like a rocking chair-it keeps you busy but gets you nowhere.”
“Boredom is for the selfish.”
“Feeling bored is a childish attitude.You wouldn't feel so if you don't relyon somebody to change your feeling.”
“Lazy people live lonely lives.”
“He who seeks rest finds boredom. He who seeks work finds rest.”
“There's nothing like impending death to rouse you from existential boredom.”
“You'll find boredom where there is the absence of a good idea.”
“Boredom is a fearsome prospect. There's a limit to the number of cars and microwaves you can buy. What do you do then?”
“The chief product of an automated society is a widespread and deepening sense of boredom.”
“Your true traveller finds boredom rather agreeable than painful. It is the symbol of his liberty - his excessive freedom. He accepts his boredom, when it comes, not merely philosophically, but almo...”
“Nothing is as tedious as the limping days,When snowdrifts yearly cover all the ways,And ennui, sour fruit of incurious gloom,Assumes control of fates immortal loom”
“Boredom was my bedmate and it was hogging the sheets.”
“I don't get it. Basketball is so supremely boring. I can't understand the point of watching ten giants running from one end of the field--court--to the other throwing an orange ball through a hoop ...”
