Boredom Quotes - Page 21

One eventually has enough even of oneself.

A sure cure for boredom: fast until you are ravenous.

Ennui, the demon, waited at the threshold of his noiseless refuge, and drove away the stirring hopes and enlivening expectations, which form the better part of life.

[On Senator Everett Dirksen:] His great enemy was boredom and he won every engagement.

When you were a child, where boredom could actually get to be painful. Sociopaths experience that kind of pain in boredom. And so to be alone, to have nobody to play the game with, can be painful. It's not exactly fear, it's a kind of pain.

My biggest concern during a race is getting bored. The biggest thing I have to combat is falling asleep while going around and around.

But maybe boredom is erotic, when women do it, for men.

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.

You ought not to be ashamed of being bored. What you ought to be ashamed of is being boring.

Boredom is desire seeking desire.

I love to work in all sorts of different situations. I think you learn a lot, which is why I try not to approach something the same way, because it might not be appropriate, and then you can get lazy just out of boredom. So I love any approach.

A utopia cannot, by definition, include boredom, but the 'utopia' we are living in is boring.

Boredom is a terrible affliction of the soulless.

I am bored with gabbers and their gab; my soul abhors them. . . . Is there any place where there is no traffic in empty talk? Is there on this earth one who does not worship himself talking?

People sometimes tell me that they prefer barbarism to civilisation. I doubt if they have given it a long enough trial. Like the people of Alexandria, they are bored by civilisation; but all the evidence suggests that the boredom of barbarism is infinitely greater.

I always think boredom is to some extent the fault of the bored.

German writings attain popularity through a great name, or through personalities, or through good connections, or through effort,or through moderate immorality, or through accomplished incomprehensibility, or through harmonious platitude, or through versatile boredom, or through constant striving after the absolute.

...boredom was as exhausting as backbreaking labor.

Boredom is why God invented books.

It was Schopenhauer who made me a philosopher. Real philosophy, I told my appalled colleagues at Auckland, is about sex, death, and boredom. Since then I have expanded my horizons, but I have always retained an affection for the sage of Frankfurt.

Only now do I understand the war against boredom, the lost cause of empty hours, of empty days and nights.

As a reader, I have a very short attention span and a low tolerance for boredom, and I find that comes in handy with my writing. If I get bored writing something, I pity the people who will then try to read it.

Net neutrality: The only two words that promise more boredom in the English language are 'featuring Sting,'

The leaf was darkish, and had prickles on it, But in another country, as he said, Bore a bright golden flow'r, but not in this soil; Unknown, and like esteem'd, and the dull swain Treads on it daily with his clouted shoon.

Without a job all there is to life is boredom and insecurity.