Boredom Quotes

Boredom, anger, sadness, or fear are not 'yours,' not personal. They are conditions of the human mind. They come and go. Nothing that comes and goes is you.

I wanted to get that sense of peace and even boredom that comes with long familiarity.

Education must enable young people to effect what they have recognized to be right, despite hardships, despite dangers, despite inner skepticism, despite boredom, and despite mockery from the world. . . .

No man should go through life without once experiencing healthy, even bored solitude in the wilderness, finding himself depending solely on himself and thereby learning his true and hidden strength

Boredom: the desire for desires.

I've got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom.

Love alone is not enough. Without imagination, love stales into sentiment, duty, boredom. Relationships fail not because we have stopped loving but because we first stopped imagining.

She refused to be bored chiefly because she wasn't boring.

The great thing is the thing of being able to see things through many points of view. That's enlarging. I mean, it saves you from ultimately from the boredom of having one point of view, like being locked in a room with nothing but your own point of view, your own references.

As soon as you set foot on a yacht you belong to some man, not to yourself, and you die of boredom.

In the U.S., you have to be a deviant or die of boredom.

Nature is interested in only two things--to survive and to reproduce one like itself. Anything you superimpose on that, all the cultural input, is responsible for the boredom of man.

I'm afraid of NOTHING except being bored!

Boredom is a sign of satisfied ignorance, blunted apprehension, crass sympathies, dull understanding, feeble powers of attention, and irreclaimable weakness of character.

And I, stepping from this skin Of old bandages, boredoms, old faces Step to you from the black car of Lethe, Pure as a baby.

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

The Sage of Toronto... spent several decades marveling at the numerous freedoms created by a "global village" instantly and effortlessly accessible to all. Villages, unlike towns, have always been ruled by conformism, isolation, petty surveillance, boredom and repetitive malicious gossip about the same families. Which is a precise enough description of the global spectacle's present vulgarity.

If you're not part of the freaks, you're part of the boredom.

Boredom is the most sublime of all human emotions because it expresses the fact that the human spirit, in a certain sense, is greater than the entire universe. Boredom is an expression of a profound despair at not finding anything that can satisfy the soul's boundless needs.

You need to let little things that would ordinarily bore you suddenly thrill you.

Idle people are often bored and bored people, unless they sleep a lot, are cruel. It is not accident that boredom and cruelty are great preoccupations in our time.

He who seeks rest finds boredom. He who seeks work finds rest.

These days, when people are alone, or feel a moment of boredom, they tend to reach for a device. In a movie theater, at a stop sign, at the checkout line at a supermarket and, yes, at a memorial service, reaching for a device becomes so natural that we start to forget that there is a reason, a good reason, to sit still with our thoughts: It does honor to what we are thinking about. It does honor to ourselves.

A bore is a man who, when you ask him how he is, tells you.

Boredom is vastly underrated. Boredom means that nothing is trying to kill you every day.

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

When we learn to TOLERATE boredom, we find out who we really are.

Existence for eternity could get a little boring... especially towards the end.

A bore is someone who deprives you of solitude without providing you with company.

Who wants a world in which the guarantee that we shall not die of starvation entails the risk of dying of boredom?

The world, this palpable world, which we were wont to treat with the boredom and disrespect with which we habitually regard places with no sacred association for us, is in truth a holy place, and we did not know it. Venite, adoremus.

Jonathan Seagull discovered that boredom and fear and anger are the reasons that a gull's life is so short, and with those gone from his thought, he lived a long fine life indeed.

The paradox: there can be no pilgrimage without a destination, but the destination is also not the real point of the endeavor. Not the destination, but the willingness to wander in pursuit characterizes pilgrimage. Willingness: to hear the tales along the way, to make the casual choices of travel, to acquiesce even to boredom. That's pilgrimage -- a mind full of journey.

In love there are no vacations. No such thing. Love has to be lived fully with its boredom and all that.

Advertising doesn't cause addictions. But it does create a climate of denial and it contributes mightily to a belief in the quick fix, instant gratification, the dreamworld, and escape from all pain and boredom. All of this is part of what addicts believe and what we hope for when we reach for our particular substance.... Addiction begins with the hope that something "out there" can instantly fill up the emptiness inside. Advertising is all about this false hope.

Living, just by itself - what a dirge that is! Life is a classroom and Boredom's the usher, there all the time to spy on you; whatever happens, you've got to look as if you were awfully busy all the time doing something that's terribly exciting - or he'll come along and nibble your brain.

Modern man has left the realm of the unknown and the mysterious, and has settled down in the realm of the functional. He is turned is back to the world of the foreboding and the exulting and has welcomed the world of boredom.

Boredom is always counter-revolutionary. Always.

Most people can't handle boredom. That means they can't stay on one thing until they get good at it. And they wonder why they're unhappy.

Symmetry is tedious, and tedium is the very basis of mourning. Despair yawns.

My chronic feelings of emptiness and boredom came from the fact that I was living a life based on my incapacities, which were numerous.

The most terrible thing about materialism, even more terrible than its proneness to violence, is its boredom, from which sex alcohol, drugs, all devices for putting out the accusing light of reason and suppressing the unrealizable aspirations of love, offer a prospect of deliverance.

I did not love you out or boredom or loneliness or caprice. I loved you because the desire for you was stronger than any happiness.

When you pay attention to boredom it gets unbelievably interesting.

Learning lines is hard for me because I have the attention span of a six year old. That's why being on planes all the time is so useful - I'm forced to learn out of boredom.

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

We have seen the best minds of our generation destroyed by boredom at poetry readings.

Boredom is a disease, too.

The secret of being a bore... is to tell everything.

Boredom is a great motivator.