Boredom Quotes - Page 24

He managed to convey indifference, contempt, and boredom in the one word.

Training and learning a new skill is all about repetition. With this in mind be careful not to get repetitive to the point of boredom. A coach's challenge is to find ways of doing similar skills differently

one sank into the ancient sin of anomie when challenges failed.

Humans struggle to remain attuned to one another - they want to turn away because of fear, or ambition, or boredom, or some lure of the ego. It's difficult. It requires radical vulnerability, radical risk.

It's boredom. No other reason than that.

Condition de l'homme: inconstance, ennui, inquie tude. Man's condition. Inconstancy, boredom, anxiety.

I see the children with their boredom and their vacant stares.

I used, when I was younger, to take my holidays walking. I would cover 25 miles a day, and when the evening came I had no need of anything to keep me from boredom, since the delight of sitting amply sufficed.

BOREDOM with established truths is a great enemy of free men.

It's all there-the boredom, the devotion, the horror and even the humor in an industrial war fought on a global scale that we'll never see again. Unit histories just do not get any better.

Many persons lead lives of crushing boredom.

Boredom is an evil that is not to be estimated lightly. It can come in the end to real despair. The public authority takes precautions against it everywhere, as against other universal calamities.

If at any moment Time stays his hand, it is only when we are delivered over to the miseries of boredom.

Norman Mailer described the desire to be cool as a "decision to encourage the psychopath in oneself, to explore that domain of experience where security is boredom and therefore sickness and one exists in the present, in that enormous present which is without past or future, memory or planned intention.

unless I can shake myself free of my dog, my flag, of my desk, my mind, I find life a bit of a drag. Not always, mind you. Usually I'm like my frying pan useful, graceful, sturdy and with no caper, no plan.

Clarice has a curious chemical reaction to boredom and the result can be similar to dynamite in the hands of a lunatic.

Boredom is usually what spurs either bad decisions or any decision at all.

Boredom is actually the most plentiful substance in the universe.

Boredom is the specter that haunts children from kindergarten to graduation on every continent.

There are 6 reasons that a person does anything: Love, faith, greed, boredom, fear... revenge.

Something must happen; that is the reason for most human relationships. Something must happen; even servitude in love, in war, ordeath.

Any country where I am not bored is a country that teaches me nothing.

It is to our lack of proper content ("notre manque de contenu propre:;», Fr.), of our inner emptiness that we need occupations and distractions, otherwise ("faute de quoi", Fr.) we experience boredom, which is nothing elses than the feeling of unease that take hold of us when our spirit is not absorbed by the mirages of life.