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Worry is like a rocking chair-it keeps you busy but gets you nowhere.

Wouldn't it help you to realize that you really do live in an epic if your life had a soundtrack?

Writing just to kill time is as good a reason as any.

Writing is a defence against boredom, but it's also a cure for melancholy.

Yet, even the nicest places on earth become boring in due course. The greatest moments become dull and tedious once the flame of excitement ceases to burn.

You are not told that while you try to eliminate your boredom by playing games and chatting on social media or watching movies and making unnecessary phone calls; your life is diminishing into vanity.

You are not walking slow enough, when taking a walk, if you do not come across as bored or depressed (to the average sane person).

You can’t have boredom and happiness living under the same roof. If we are able to manage our boredom, we can easily manage our happiness.

You have to be the right type for calm waters. For some, dead calm is inner peace, for others it's the doldrums.

You know a man is interesting when you forget to notice how expensive — or cheap — his clothes are.

You know why the gods made people in different colors?" "No, why" Kate asked. "Too boring, everybody looking the same. The gods didn't want us to get bored.

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

You see, I'm not mad, I suffer from depression. It's not like ordinary misery. It's like dying of boredom. It's black.

You've already said you were going to kill me," Alex said, "but I didn't think that meant you were going to bore me to death.

A bore is someone who persists in holding his own views after we have enlightened him with ours.

A bit of theory as we settle down for lunch: the waiter's treatment of Kitty is actually a kind of sandwich, with the bottom bread being the bored and slightly effete way he normally acts with customers, the middle being the crazed and abnormal way he feels around this famous nineteen-year-old girl, and the top bread being his attempt to contain and conceal this alien middle layer with some mode of behavior that at least approximates the bottom layer of boredom and effeteness that is his norm.

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

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

According to Gur's theory of boredom, everything that happens in the world today is because of boredom: love, war, inventions, fake fireplaces - ninety-five percent of all that is pure boredom.

Acting offers me an outlet. Here is the perfect opportunity to spend fleeting moments becoming an entirely different person; to experience a character entirely unlike myself, but to also make such a character a part of me. There is no routine here; there is no boredom. How does one get bored of life?

A dull ax never loves grindstones.

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

You don't usually think of boredom as something similar to pain. That's because you've only been exposed to it in relatively small doses. You don’t know its true colour. The difference between the boredom you know and the boredom I know is like the difference between touching snow and putting your hand in a vat of liquid nitrogen.

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

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.

Against boredom even gods struggle in vain.

Against boredom the gods themselves fight in vain.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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 oasis of horror in a desert of boredom.

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

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.

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.

Artists never seem to get bored with life.

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 sure cure for boredom: fast until you are ravenous.

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