Boredom Quotes - Page 17

Miss the present and you live in boredom. BE in the present and you will be surprised that there is no boredom at all. Start by looking around a little more like a child. Be a child again! That's what meditation is all about: being a child again - a rebirth, being innocent again, not-knowing.

If you really want a life which has no boredom in it, drop all masks, be true. Sometimes it will be difficult, I know, but it is worth it. Be true.

We pay for security with boredom, for adventure with bother.

I was sailing from tedium to apathy with a side trip to torpor.

Acting offers me an outlet. Here is the perfect opportunity to spend fleeting moments becoming an entirely different person; to experience a character entirely unlike myself, but to also make such a character a part of me. There is no routine here; there is no boredom. How does one get bored of life?

I am still amazed at the amount of Christian charity [Wellesley] stuck us all with, a kind of glazed politeness in the face of boredom and stupidity. Tolerance, in the worst sense of the word. How marvelous it would have been to go to a women's college that encouraged impoliteness, that rewarded aggression, that encouraged argument.

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.

What people will do to get away from boredom!

Sometimes I dread loneliness more than bores. Other times, the reverse.

When I am bored with myself, I try to find someone to listen to me.

People are reluctant to cite boredom as grounds for divorce.

The Ancient Mariner seizes the guest at the wedding feast and will not let go until he has told all his story: the prototype of the bore.

Eagerness to please attracts bullies and bores.

the calm of a place like Bellwood is the peace of death without the hope of resurrection.

My greatest discovery has been my love of boredom and to get fun out of it.

He found himself in habiting the vast, empty plateau where most people live, between boredom and contentment.

It's not hard to understand why an accomplished director like Gus Van Sant (whose most recent success, Good Will Hunting, gave him mainstream clout) would be interested in making this film. The lure of an exact remake presents a tremendous challenge. Unfortunately, it was undoubtedly a lot more stimulating for Van Sant and his crew to make Psycho than it is for an audience to watch it. Curiosity is going to be one of the primary reasons why people pay money to see this movie; boredom will be the predominant result.

But some natives--most natives in the world--cannot go anywhere. They are too poor. They are too poor to go anywhere. They are too poor to escape the reality of their lives; and they are too poor to live properly in the place where they live, which is the very place you, the tourist, want to go--so when the natives see you, the tourist, they envy you, they envy your ability to leave your own banality and boredom, they enjoy your ability to turn their own banality and boredom into a source of pleasure for yourself.

Isn’t ‘not to be bored’ one of the principal goals of life?

I have always regarded as a stroke of good fortune that I was not born or brought up in a small American town; they may be the backbone of the nation, but they are also the backbone of ignorance, bigotry, and boredom, all in vast quantities.

God created woman. And boredom did indeed cease from that moment-but many other things ceased as well!

Extreme boredom provides its own antidote.

Boredom ... causes us to neglect more duties than does interest.

I love heights. I love speed. Im on the verge of being a pyromaniac. Maybe my phobia is boredom.

Turning fifty ... is like flying: hours of boredom punctuated by moments of sheer terror.