Quotes about boredom
boredom desire seeking
Boredom is desire seeking desire. Leo Tolstoy
boredom desire enthusiasm
Boredom: the desire for desires.
boredom insult being-bored
Being bored is an insult to oneself. Jules Renard
boredom tolerance attention
Mid-grade readers don't have short attention spans, they just have low boredom tolerance. Judith Viorst
boredom boring ashamed
You ought not to be ashamed of being bored. What you ought to be ashamed of is being boring. Lord Hailsham
boredom bed coffins
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. Freya Stark
boredom metaphor
Maybe happiness too is a metaphor invented on a day of boredom Gustave Flaubert
boredom goal principal
Isn’t ‘not to be bored’ one of the principal goals of life?
boredom
Boredom is a great motivator. Uma Thurman
boredom mourning despair
Symmetry is tedious, and tedium is the very basis of mourning. Despair yawns. Victor Hugo
boredom suffering hell
There is something more terrible than a hell of suffering--a hell of boredom.
boredom painting habit
Painting bores me like everything else. Unfortunately, painting is one of the activities - it is bound up in the series of activities - that seems to change almost nothing in life, the same habits are always recurring. Rene Magritte
boredom routine life-is
To the elitist hedonist, life is the avoidance of boredom and routine. Timothy Leary
boredom flying training
I finally overcame my phobia, and now I approach flying with a sort of studied boredom - a learned habit, thanks to my learn-to-fly-calmly training - but like all former flying phobics, I retain a weird and feverish fascination with aviation news, especially bad news. Susan Orlean
boredom evil stupidity
Boredom and stupidity and patriotism, especially when combined, are three of the greatest evils of the world we live in. Robertson Davies
boredom vacuums existential
The existential vacuum manifests itself mainly in a state of boredom. Viktor E. Frankl
boredom despair emptiness
Emptiness and boredom: what a complete understatement. What I felt was complete desolation. Desolation, despair and boredom. Susanna Kaysen
boredom feelings facts
My chronic feelings of emptiness and boredom came from the fact that I was living a life based on my incapacities, which were numerous.
boredom needs delight
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. Stephanie Mills
boredom married inevitable
The boredom of married life inevitable destroys love, when love has preceded marriage. Stendhal
boredom unhappiness
The only unhappiness is a life of boredom.
boredom equal
Rules equal boredom, and I don't like that. Simon Cowell
boredom annoyed important
There's something about trying to know when you really need to protect yourself, or else you're not going to get anything done, and sometimes to be really uncomfortable or agitated or annoyed or bored. Boredom is so important. Regina Spektor
boredom choices suffering
One must, in one's life, make a choice between boredom and suffering. Madame de Stael
boredom disease syphilis
Morality is a venereal disease. Its primary stage is called virtue; its secondary stage, boredom; its tertiary stage, syphilis. Karl Kraus
boredom people want
Be politically correct, but please don't bother other people with conversation about being politically correct, because that's the end of everything. You want to create boredom? Be politically correct in your conversation. Karl Lagerfeld
boredom labor exhausting
...boredom was as exhausting as backbreaking labor. Jung Chang
boredom gusto should
Even boredom should be described with gusto. How many things are happening on a day when nothing happens? Wislawa Szymborska
boredom long return
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. Samuel Johnson
boredom scholar known
It is the unknown that excites the ardor of scholars, who, in the known alone, would shrivel up with boredom. Wallace Stevens
boredom way inability
The concept of boredom entails an inability to use up present moments in a personally fulfilling way. Wayne Dyer
boredom way boring
The best way to be boring is to include everything. Voltaire
boredom way bores
The way to be a bore is to say everything.