Boredom Quotes - Page 2

Boredom is vastly underrated. Boredom means that nothing is trying to kill you every day.

A bore is someone who deprives you of solitude without providing you with company.

When we learn to TOLERATE boredom, we find out who we really are.

Existence for eternity could get a little boring... especially towards the end.

Who wants a world in which the guarantee that we shall not die of starvation entails the risk of dying of boredom?

The world, this palpable world, which we were wont to treat with the boredom and disrespect with which we habitually regard places with no sacred association for us, is in truth a holy place, and we did not know it. Venite, adoremus.

Jonathan Seagull discovered that boredom and fear and anger are the reasons that a gull's life is so short, and with those gone from his thought, he lived a long fine life indeed.

In love there are no vacations. No such thing. Love has to be lived fully with its boredom and all that.

The paradox: there can be no pilgrimage without a destination, but the destination is also not the real point of the endeavor. Not the destination, but the willingness to wander in pursuit characterizes pilgrimage. Willingness: to hear the tales along the way, to make the casual choices of travel, to acquiesce even to boredom. That's pilgrimage -- a mind full of journey.

Advertising doesn't cause addictions. But it does create a climate of denial and it contributes mightily to a belief in the quick fix, instant gratification, the dreamworld, and escape from all pain and boredom. All of this is part of what addicts believe and what we hope for when we reach for our particular substance.... Addiction begins with the hope that something "out there" can instantly fill up the emptiness inside. Advertising is all about this false hope.

Boredom is always counter-revolutionary. Always.

Living, just by itself - what a dirge that is! Life is a classroom and Boredom's the usher, there all the time to spy on you; whatever happens, you've got to look as if you were awfully busy all the time doing something that's terribly exciting - or he'll come along and nibble your brain.

Modern man has left the realm of the unknown and the mysterious, and has settled down in the realm of the functional. He is turned is back to the world of the foreboding and the exulting and has welcomed the world of boredom.

Most people can't handle boredom. That means they can't stay on one thing until they get good at it. And they wonder why they're unhappy.

Symmetry is tedious, and tedium is the very basis of mourning. Despair yawns.

My chronic feelings of emptiness and boredom came from the fact that I was living a life based on my incapacities, which were numerous.

The most terrible thing about materialism, even more terrible than its proneness to violence, is its boredom, from which sex alcohol, drugs, all devices for putting out the accusing light of reason and suppressing the unrealizable aspirations of love, offer a prospect of deliverance.

When you pay attention to boredom it gets unbelievably interesting.

I did not love you out or boredom or loneliness or caprice. I loved you because the desire for you was stronger than any happiness.

The secret of being a bore... is to tell everything.

We have seen the best minds of our generation destroyed by boredom at poetry readings.

Perhaps the world's second worst crime is boredom. The first is being a bore.

Boredom is a disease, too.

My life is a black hole of boredom and despair." "So basically you've been doing homework." "Like I said, black hole.

Against boredom even gods struggle in vain.