Boredom Quotes - Page 10

Mid-grade readers don't have short attention spans, they just have low boredom tolerance.

For boredom speaks the language of time, and it is to teach you the most valuable lesson of your life - the lesson of your utter insignificance.

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

Every native of every place is a potential tourist, and every tourist is a native of somewhere. Every native everywhere lives a life of overwhelming and crushing banality and boredom and desperation and depression, and every deed, good and bad, is an attempt to forget this.

Happiness is fugitive; dissatisfaction and boredom are real.

I am fairly tired--bored beyond endurance--by the world we live in, and its ideals, and am ready to say so, not violently, but kindly, as one rubs salt into the back of a flogged sailor as though one loved him.

I can excuse everything but boredom. Boring people don't have to stay that way.

None will ever be a true Parisian who has not learned to wear a mask of gaiety over his sorrows and one of sadness, boredom, or indifference over his inward joy.

The so-called conscientiousness of the majority of painters is only perfection applied to the art of boring.

When a thing bores you, do not do it.

Three-quarters of a soldier's life is spent in aimlessly waiting about.

I’m very interested in sublimation. I love the way Francis Bacon talked about the grin without the cat, the sensation without the boredom of its conveyance… I’ve always wanted to be able to convey figurative imagery in a kind of shorthand, to get it across in as direct a way as possible. I want there to be a human presence without having to depict it in full.

Big book, a big bore.

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.

The effect of boredom on a large scale in history is underestimated. It is a main cause of revolutions.

A well-stocked mind is safe from boredom.

It is not enough to accept boredom, you must embrace it. It is only when you have completely embraced it that you can go beyond it.

I suspect that the peer-review system carries a good part of blame for the fact that something like sixty percent or more of journal articles are never quoted (which means leaving no trace on our joint scholarly pursuits), and (in my reception at any rate) the "learned journals" (with a few miraculous exceptions that entail, prominently, TCS) ooze monumental boredom.

The effect of boredom on a large scale in history is underestimated. It is a main cause of revolutions, and would soon bring to an end all the static Utopias and the farmyard civilization of the Fabians.

Boredom, after all, is a form of criticism.

When we hold back out of laziness, that is when we tie ourselves into knots of boredom.

Boredom is the legitimate kingdom of the philanthropic.

Sooner barbarity than boredom.

Fidgeting and boredom are the symptoms of fear of emptiness, which we try to fill up with whatever we can lay our hands on.

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.