Boredom Quotes - Page 16

I remember laughing with relief that the same old adolescent boredom goes on from generation to generation. ...the words took me back to my own years of stagnancy, and that terrible waiting for life to begin. [p. 68]

Don't try to 'fix' the child's boredom - rather, let the child find his or her inner resources.

There's too much down time making movies. That leads to boredom. And that leads to trouble.

Boredom and fatigue are great historical forces.

Maybe happiness too is a metaphor invented on a day of boredom

The only way to live a long life is in a state of constant boredom.

I guess that as life is speeded up and our capacity for concentration is being nibbled away at by all the obvious things, that leads us actually to be more susceptible to boredom.

Very often, I confess, the teller of dreams bores me. His dream could perhaps interest me if it were frankly worked on. But to hear a glorious tale of his insanity! I have not yet clarified, psychoanalytically, this boredom during the recital of other people's dreams. Perhaps I have retained the stiffness of a rationalist. I do not follow the tale of justified incoherence docilely. I always suspect that part of the stupidities being recounted are invented.

The saying, "The Magyar is much too lazy to be bored," is worth thinking about. Only the most subtle and active animals are capable of boredom.--A theme for a great poet would be God's boredom on the seventh day of creation.

I have come to believe that holy boredom is good and sufficient reason for the invention of free will.

I never go to where's a risk. I'm frightened of dangers down to boredom.

True will-power and courage are not on the battlefield, but in everyday conquests over our intertia, laziness, boredom.

Hard work never killed a man. Men die of boredom, psychological conflict, and disease. They do not die of hard work.

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.

Every brand builder will face a million temptations to obscure, dilute, or confuse his or her brand message. These temptations fall under two general headings: boredom and the desire for growth.

The laws that keep us safe, these same laws condemn us to boredom.

Do you suppose the human race invented boredom to make the prospect of death more palatable?

My despair is less despair than boredom and loneliness.

They were connoisseurs of boredom. They savoured the various bouquets of the subtly differentiated boredoms which rose from the long, wasted hours at the dead end of night.

The way to be a bore is to say everything.

Work is the law of life, and to reject it as boredom is to submit to it as torment.

Boredom is a blessing when it leads you to wisdom. And boredom is a curse when it leads you to frustration and depression.

But too often the goal of the planners is a universal gray state of health corresponding to absence of disease rather than to a positive attribute conducive to joyful and creative living. This kind of health will not rule out and may even generate another form of ill, the boredom which is the penalty of a formula of life where nothing is left unforeseen.

Boredom is what happens to people who have no control over their minds.

We have a world of pleasure to win, and nothing to lose but boredom.