Boredom Quotes
A person with friends need never be bored. There is always more to fathom and enjoy in the complexity of others, and always the possibility of finding a way to delight them.
As actors, the thing we have to fight, more than even the business part of making movies, is boredom.
By his very success in inventing labor-saving devices, modern man has manufactured an abyss of boredom that only the privileged classes in earlier civilizations have ever fathomed.
She was as sated with him as he was tired of her. Emma had rediscovered in adultery all the banality of marriage.
The days hardened with cold and boredom like last year's loaves of bread. One began to cut them with blunt knives without appetite, with a lazy indifference.
Anthropocentrism gave rise to boredom, and when anthropomorphism was replaced by technocentrism, boredom became even more profound.
Boredom is the inner conflict we suffer when we lose desire, when we lack a lacking.
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 fate’s immortal loom
Boredom is that awful state of inaction when the very medicine - that is, activity - which could solve it, is seen as odious.
Many people, especially women, never experience boredom because they have never learned to work properly.
We try to 'self-medicate' ourselves against boredom with mobile phones in any given moment of free time.
Nobody has any right to find life uninteresting or unrewarding who sees within the sphere of his own activity a wrong he can help to remedy, or within himself an evil he can hope to overcome.
The problem in public life is learning to overcome terror; the problem in married life is learning to overcome boredom.
People get tired of everything, and of nothing sooner than of what they most like.
Defeat is a thing of weariness, of incoherence, of boredom, and above all futility.
What's the use of talking? You can see for yourself that this is a barbarous country; the people have no morals; and the boredom!
It is fatal to know too much at the outcome: boredom comes as quickly to the traveler who knows his route as to the novelist who is over certain of his plot.
You are never tired of painting, because you have to set down not what you know already, but what you have just discovered.
Utopia was here at last: its novelty had not yet been assailed by the supreme enemy of a ll Utopias - boredom.
I am tired of clinging. Though I cannot see it with my eyes, I trust that the current knows where it is going. I shall let go, and let it take me where it will. Clinging, I shall die of boredom.
Life, friends, is boring. We must not say so. After all, the sky flashes, the great sea yearns, we ourselves flash and yearn
Want to snatch a day from the manacles of boredom? Do overgenerous deeds, acts beyond reimbursement. Kindness without compensation. Do a deed for which you cannot be repaid.
He regards boredom, I observe, as the One and Mighty Enemy of his soul. And will succeed in conquering it, I am sure—if he survives the experience.
Surely a long life must be somewhat tedious, since we are forced to call in so many trifling things to help rid us of our time, which will never return.
This is the treason of the artist: a refusal to admit the banality of evil and the terrible boredom of pain.
Art makes you reinvent the wheel with regularity. If you don't, art gets bored and slips away.
Boredom dismantles the mind, renders it superficial, out at the seams, saps it from within and dislocates it.
Boredom is the thing that regularly arrives between excitements and episodes of meaning: it is as natural as the tides, and in it an artist can drown.
