Best 777 quotes in «boredom quotes» category

A dull ax never loves grindstones.

Adrenalin dispels boredom. Run, you sufferers from ennui! Run for your lives!

Against boredom even gods struggle in vain.

Aging has its own beauty. It is a beautiful stage for doing inner work. You have a chance to not be so dependent on social approval. You can be a little more eccentric. You can be more alone. And you can examine loneliness and boredom instead of being afraid of them. There is such an art and a possibility of aging.This is quotes copyright © By Pumpkin Limited

All illegal narcotics are medicinal. Boredom is a disease worse than cancer. Drugs cure it, with little or no side effects if used as directed. Life's temporary for a reason, it gets boring after awhile. You should be inventing new drugs is what you should be doing! Newer, crazier drugs... and more holes, that's what you ladies need!

All our life passes in this way: we seek rest by struggling against certain obstacles, and once they are overcome, rest proves intolerable because of the boredom it produces.

All sizes of film sets have the same level of excitement and friction and tension and then vast sections of boredom that define the process, so I love it all.

All things here appear to me to trudge on in one and the same round: we rise in the morning that we may eat breakfast, dinner andsupper and to bed again that we may get up the next morning and do the same: so that you never saw two peas more alike than our yesterday and to-day.

A man has got to keep his extrication. The important thing is not to get bogged down In what he has to do to earn a living.

As a reader, I have a very short attention span and a low tolerance for boredom, and I find that comes in handy with my writing. If I get bored writing something, I pity the people who will then try to read it.

A scholar knows no boredom.

As for boredom ... I notice that it leaves me as soon as I am doing something that has got to be done.

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

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.

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

Among the idle rich, boredom is one of the most common causes of unhappiness. People who have difficulty in earning their living may suffer greatly, but they are not bored. Wealthy men and women become bored when they depend upon the theater for their enjoyment instead of making their own lives interesting.

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.

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.

And there is a time, glorious too in its own way, when one scarcely exists, when one is a complete void. I mean, when boredom seems the very stuff of life.

An enthusiast may bore others, but he has never a dull moment himself.

An oasis of horror in a desert of boredom.

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.

A philistine is habitually bored and looks for things that won't bore him. An artist finds things boring, but is never bored.

Armed with a paint-box, one cannot be bored, one cannot be left at a loose end, one cannot 'have several days on one's hands.

Art makes you reinvent the wheel with regularity. If you don't, art gets bored and slips away.

Against boredom the gods themselves fight in vain.

A sure cure for boredom: fast until you are ravenous.

Audacious ribald: your laughter will finish in hideous boredom before morning.

Artists never seem to get bored with life.

A yawn is more disconcerting than a contradiction.

Being a [bank] director is like being a pilot of an aircraft - it's years of boredom and seconds of terror.

Back at the Chateau Windsor there was a rat-like scratching at the door of my room. Vinod, the youngest servant, came in with a soda water. He placed it next to the bag of toffees. Then he watched me read. I was used to being observed reading. Sometimes the room would fill like a railway station at rush hour and I would be expected to cure widespread boredom

Beneath a mask of selfish tranquility nothing exists except bitterness and boredom.

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.

Books - the best antidote against the marsh-gas of boredom and vacuity

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

A strange effect of marriage, such as the nineteenth century has made it! The boredom of married life inevitably destroys love, when love has preceded marriage. And yet, as a philosopher has observed, it speedily brings about, among people who are rich enough not to have to work, an intense boredom with all quiet forms of enjoyment. And it is only dried up hearts, among women, that it does not predispose to love.

Boredom and fatigue are great historical forces.

BOREDOM with established truths is a great enemy of free men.

boredom has a tendency to bring out the worst in people's faces.

Boredom comes not from reality but from people who are only half alive.

Boredom dismantles the mind, renders it superficial, out at the seams, saps it from within and dislocates it.

Boredom has an important function, because pushing through it can unleash creativity.

Boredom provides a stronger inclination to write than anything.

boredom was born on a day of uniformity.

Boredom, after all, is a form of criticism.

Boredom and restlessness are deeply related. Whenever you feel boredom, then you feel restlessness. Restlessness is a by-product of boredom.

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.

Boredom is just the reverse side of fascination: both depend on being outside rather than inside a situation, and one leads to the other.

Boredom is a mask frustration wears.