Best 777 quotes in «boredom quotes» category

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

An oasis of horror in a desert of boredom.

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.

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.

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.

Artists never seem to get bored with life.

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

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.

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

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

A scholar knows no boredom.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

Boredom, after all, is a form of criticism.

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

Boredom and fatigue are great historical forces.

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

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

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 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 like a pitiless zooming in on the epidermis of time. Every instant is dilated and magnified like the pores of the face.

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 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.

Boredom is actually the most plentiful substance in the universe.

Boredom is the biggest problem. The same position. Same day of the week. It becomes boring when you don't bring any added flowers home.

Boredom is the keynote of poverty — of all its indignities, it is perhaps the hardest of all to live with — for where there is no money there is no change of any kind, not of scene or of routine. To be able to break out of its dark brown sameness.

Boredom is a horrible thing.

Boredom makes you do crazy things

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.