Best 777 quotes in «boredom quotes» category

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 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.

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

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

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

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

A yawn is more disconcerting than a contradiction.

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

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

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

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

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 and booze--cause and effect.

Boredom is actually the most plentiful substance in the universe.

Boredom is a horrible thing.

Boredom is always counter-revolutionary. Always.

Boredom is my worst enemy. It's killed a lot of my friends, but it won't get me. When I get bored, I go risk my life somewhere.

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

Boredom is simply romanticism with a morning-after thirst.

Boredom is the consciousness of repetition. Because animals cannot remember the past, they cannot feel bored. They cannot remember the past, so they cannot feel bored. They cannot remember the past, so they cannot feel the repetition. The buffalo goes on eating the same grass every day with the same delight. You cannot. How can you eat the same grass with the same delight? You get fed up.

Boredom is the legitimate kingdom of the philanthropic.

Boredom turns to panic if my beloved leaves before the usual time.

Boredom is a certain sign that we are allowing our faculties to rust in idleness.

Boredom is a disease worse than cancer. Drugs cure it.

Boredom is... a vital problem for the moralist, since half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it.

Boredom is the most horrible of wolves.

Boredom is the only sure cure for neurosis.

Boredom is the specter that haunts children from kindergarten to graduation on every continent.

Boredom or being sick of what you've done before is a big part of being in a band.

Boredom strives to detach, but finds itself stuck.

Boredom, that silent spider, was spinning its web in the darkness in every corner of her heart.

Boredom turns a man to sex, a woman to shopping, and it drives newscasters berserk.

Bore, n. A person who talks when you wish him to listen.

Boring people are a reflection of boring people.

Boredom and fatigue are great historical forces.

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 is a mask frustration wears.

Boredom is an instrument of social control. Power is the power to impose boredom, to command stasis, to combine this stasis with anguish. The real tedium, deep tedium, is seasoned with terror and with death.

Boredom is just the reverse side of fascination.

Boredom is often the cause of promiscuity, and always its result.