Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jim Harrison

I have closely noted that people who watch a great deal of TV never again seem able to adjust to the actual pace of life. The speed of the passing images becomes the speed the aspire to and they seem to develop an impatience and boredom with anything else.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

i'm a slave to my emotions, to my likes, to my hatred of boredom, to most of my desires

Eugene Ionesco

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

Erin Wasson

I love heights. I love speed. Im on the verge of being a pyromaniac. Maybe my phobia is boredom.

Fernando Pessoa

My boredom with everything has numbed me.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

The problem in public life is learning to overcome terror; the problem in married life is learning to overcome boredom.

Friedrich Nietzsche

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

Jean-Paul Sartre

Good digestions, the gray monotony of provincial life, and the boredom-ah the soul-destroying boredom-of long days of mild content.

Jean-Paul Sartre

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

Friedrich Nietzsche

God created woman. And boredom did indeed cease from that moment-but many other things ceased as well!

Erich Fromm

Boredom is nothing but the experience of a paralysis of our productive powers and the sense of unaliveness. Among the evils of life, there are few which are as painful as boredom, and consequently every attempt is made to avoid it.

Erich Fromm

Chronic boredom compensated or uncompensated constitutes one of the major psychopathological phenomena in contemporary technotronic society, although it is only recently that it has found some recognition.

Erich Fromm

Boredom is nothing but the experience of a paralysis of our productive powers.

Erica Jong

Turning fifty ... is like flying: hours of boredom punctuated by moments of sheer terror.

Elsa Maxwell

Down with boredom. It has to go.

Gerald Brenan

Everyone is a bore to someone. That is unimportant. The thing to avoid is being a bore to oneself.

Isabelle Adjani

Before, for me, peace could have been synonymous with boredom.

B. F. Skinner

Something doing every minute' may be a gesture of despair-or the height of a battle against boredom.

Cecil Beaton

Perhaps the world's second worst crime is boredom. The first is being a bore.

Jason Isbell

I've never been someone who's very prone to boredom. I don't know, boredom seems like something you should grow out of at about 15 or 16. There's so much that needs to be done.

Christian Louboutin

Boredom is a concept that I don't understand.

Hal Sparks

Boredom is your mind and body's way of telling you you're not living up to your potential.

Iggy Pop

They say that death kills you, But death doesn't kill you. Boredom and indifference kill you.

Hugh Prather

Boredom or discontent is useful to me when I acknowledge it and see clearly my assumption that there's something else I would rather be doing. In this way boredom can act as an invitation to freedom by opening me to new options and thoughts. For example, if I can't change the activity, can I look at it more honestly?

Guy deBord

Boredom is always counter-revolutionary. Always.

Jacques Barzun

Boredom and fatigue are great historical forces.

Jackie Collins

I don't like being in one place too long. Five days just about does it for me because I have a very low threshold for boredom.

Jess Walter

He found himself in habiting the vast, empty plateau where most people live, between boredom and contentment.

George H. W. Bush

What's wrong with being a boring kind of guy?

James Gleick

We choose mania over boredom every time.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

The prospect of being pleased tomorrow will never console me for the boredom of today.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Boredom ... causes us to neglect more duties than does interest.

Francisco Costa

I have no tolerance for boredom. I spend so many hours in the office, and I still love it.