Boredom Quotes - Page 11

The human soul has need of security and also of risk. The fear of violence or of hunger or of any other extreme evil is a sickness of the soul. The boredom produced by a complete absence of risk is also a sickness of the soul.

Boredom is simply romanticism with a morning-after thirst.

Discussing how old you are is the temple of boredom.

The devil's name is dullness.

The presidency has many problems, but boredom is the least of them.

I am tired of clinging. Though I cannot see it with my eyes, I trust that the current knows where it is going. I shall let go, and let it take me where it will. Clinging, I shall die of boredom.

The boredom occasioned by too much restraint is always preferable to that produced by an uncontrolled enthusiasm for a pointless variety.

Long-term boredom can't lead to anything good.

Even boredom has its crises.

Faith of the bore: everything is worth saying.

Sexual boredom is ousting sexual deviance as the problem.

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

One must choose in life between boredom and suffering.

As actors, the thing we have to fight, more than even the business part of making movies, is boredom.

Boredom is the effort used in suppressing something negative.

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.

Passions are less mischievous than boredom, for passions tend to diminish and boredom increase.

One would expect boredom to be a great yawning emotion, but it isn't, of course. It's a small niggling thing.

Boredom is your window on the properties of time that one tends to ignore to the likely peril of one's mental equilibrium. It is your window on time's infinity. Once this window opens, don't try to shut it; on the contrary, throw it wide open.

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

I've never been someone who's very prone to boredom. I don't know, boredom seems like something you should grow out of at about 15 or 16. There's so much that needs to be done.

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

What's wrong with being a boring kind of guy?

Many people, especially women, never experience boredom because they have never learned to work properly.

We often bore others when we think we cannot possibly bore them.