Boredom Quotes

In marketing you must choose between boredom, shouting and seduction. Which do you want?

I'm something that I used to be. I'm never where I feel I am, and if I seek myself, I don't know who's seeking me. My boredom with everything has numbed me. I feel banished from my soul.

Americans don’t want drama, especially good drama, they just want their boredom killed.

The essence of boredom is to be found in the obsessive search for novelty. Satisfaction lies in mindful repetition, the discovery of endless richness in subtle variations on familiar themes.

The best way to be boring is to include everything.

The one sure means of dealing with boredom is to care for someone else, to do something kind and good.

You searched through all my poets, From Sappho through to Auden, I saw the book fall from your hands, As you slowly died of boredom.

A month passes by and brings another month. Easy to guess what lies ahead: all of yesterday's boredom. And tomorrow ends up no longer like tomorrow.

To do the same thing over and over again is not only boredom: it is to be controlled by rather than to control what you do.

Boredom between two people doesn't come from being together physically. It comes from being apart mentally and spiritually.

There is nothing frightening about an eternal dreamless sleep. Surely it is better than eternal torment in Hell and eternal boredom in Heaven.

Levity is the lubricant of a crisis. We resort to jokes, pranks and good natured kidding to relieve tension, stress and boredom.

The life of the creative man is lead, directed and controlled by boredom. Avoiding boredom is one of our most important purposes.

Death: Human beings make life so interesting. Do you know, that in a universe so full of wonders, they have managed to invent boredom.

Nature is unfair? So much the better, inequality is the only bearable thing, the monotony of equality can only lead us to boredom.

Without lies humanity would perish of despair and boredom.

Listen deeply. Meditate on that which is arising. Even if it's boredom or difficulty or maybe a feeling of being stuck, that in itself can be the work for your practice.

What is boredom? It is when there is simultaneously too much and not enough.

You'll find boredom where there is the absence of a good idea.

The first effect of adjusting to other people is that one becomes boring.

If you're afraid to take risks in anything in life, it's just boredom.

The sightless Milton, with his hair Around his placid temples curled; And Shakespeare at his side,-a freight, If clay could think and mind were weight, For him who bore the world!

monotony is not to be worshipped as a virtue; nor the marriage bed treated as a coffin for security rather than a couch from which to rise refreshed.

The truth is that everyone is bored, and devotes himself to cultivating habits.

The most total opposite of pleasure is not pain but boredom, for we are willing to risk pain to make a boring life interesting.

Some of the freckles I once loved are now closer to liver spots. But it’s still the eyes we look at, isn’t it? That’s where we found the other person, and find them still.

The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore.

A bore is a person who opens his mouth and puts his feats in it.

Boredom is a disease worse than cancer. Drugs cure it.

My marriage didn't make me sad, but it didn't make me happy either. My husband and I hardly spoke to each other. This wasn't because we were angry. We had nothing to say. I was dying of boredom.

I always say, 'Books beat boredom,' said Amanda wisely.

Boredom flourishes too, when you feel safe. It's a symptom of security.

Unless a man has been taught what to do with success after getting it, the achievement of it must inevitably leave him a prey to boredom.

Passion goes, Boredom remains.

Obesity is a mental state, a disease brought on by boredom and disappointment.

We're no longer bored - in fact we're petrified of being alone with ourselves getting bored. Yet boredom is the foundation for creativity - an asset slowly disappearing from our world.

The essence of life is the smile of round female bottoms, under the shadow of cosmic boredom.

Between Ennui and Ecstasy unwinds our whole experience of time.

Is boredom anything less than the sense of one's faculties slowly dying?

They say that adultery is the main thing that can damage a marriage, but it's not. It's boredom.

Freedom without any purpose feels a whole lot like boredom.

It is only a step from boredom to disillusionment, which leads naturally to self-pity, which in turn ends in chaos.

Ennui is the disease of hearts without feeling, and of minds without resources.

It is not the simple statement of facts that ushers in freedom; it is the constant repetition of them that has this liberating effect. Tolerance is the result not of enlightenment, but of boredom.

A subject for a great poet would be God's boredom after the seventh day of creation.

Papa's love did indeed have wondrous properties: it not only compensated for her boredom and anxiety, it was the cause of her boredom and anxiety.

Running through things because you are familiar with them, breeds routine and this is the seed of boredom.

How some of the writers I come across get through their books without dying of boredom is beyond me.

A great affliction of all Philistines is that idealities afford them no entertainment, but to escape from boredom they are always in need of realities.

Boredom rests upon the nothingness that winds its way through existence; its giddiness, like that which comes from gazing down into an infinite abyss, is infinite.