Boredom Quotes - Page 14

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

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

People get tired of everything, and of nothing sooner than of what they most like.

The problem in public life is learning to overcome terror; the problem in married life is learning to overcome boredom.

The prospect of being pleased tomorrow will never console me for the boredom of today.

Boredom is the thing that regularly arrives between excitements and episodes of meaning: it is as natural as the tides, and in it an artist can drown.

I don't think anyone wants to do the same thing over and over again.

Boredom dismantles the mind, renders it superficial, out at the seams, saps it from within and dislocates it.

One of the deep fundamentals of poetry is the recurrence of sounds, syllables, words, phrases, lines, and stanzas. Repetition can be one of the most intoxicating features of poetry. It creates expectations, which can be fulfilled or frustrated. It can create a sense of boredom and complacency, but it can also incite enchantment and inspire bliss.

She had been bored all afternoon by Percy Gryce... but she could not ignore him on the morrow, she must follow up her success, must submit to more boredom, must be ready with fresh compliances and adaptibilities, and all on the bare chance that he might ultimately decide to do her the honour of boring her for life.

Over-excitement and boredom are states of mind which I equally shun.

My drive to put myself on the line comes from boredom. From that feeling when you go to bed and think, 'What did I do today?' It doesn't have to be something monumental, just a feeling that you really tried to look at something, or look into something.

If I drive myself to the brink of my ability, then I don't get stale or bored.

Boredom is a pleasing antidote for fear

The Postmodernists' tyranny wears people down by boredom and semi-literate prose.

Nobody has any right to find life uninteresting or unrewarding who sees within the sphere of his own activity a wrong he can help to remedy, or within himself an evil he can hope to overcome.

Ennui has made more gamblers than avarice.

An oasis of horror in a desert of boredom.

In small towns, news travels at the speed of boredom.

I have the impression that if he didn't complicate his life so needlessly, he would die of boredom.

Utopia was here at last: its novelty had not yet been assailed by the supreme enemy of a ll Utopias - boredom.

Defeat is a thing of weariness, of incoherence, of boredom, and above all futility.

The merely well-informed man is the most useless bore on God's earth.

We try to 'self-medicate' ourselves against boredom with mobile phones in any given moment of free time.

To 'know your place' is a good idea in politics. That is not to say 'stay in your place' or 'hang on to your place', because ambition or boredom may dictate upward or downward mobility, but a sense of place - a feel for one's own position in the control room-is useful in gauging what you should try to do.