Boredom Quotes - Page 4

Even boredom should be described with gusto. How many things are happening on a day when nothing happens?

People with a high tolerance for boredom can get a lot of thinking done.

A strange effect of marriage, such as the nineteenth century has made it! The boredom of married life inevitably destroys love, when love has preceded marriage. And yet, as a philosopher has observed, it speedily brings about, among people who are rich enough not to have to work, an intense boredom with all quiet forms of enjoyment. And it is only dried up hearts, among women, that it does not predispose to love.

I have closely noted that people who watch a great deal of TV never again seem able to adjust to the actual pace of life. The speed of the passing images becomes the speed the aspire to and they seem to develop an impatience and boredom with anything else.

The chief product of an automated society is a widespread and deepening sense of boredom.

If the world is a progressively realized community of interpretation, then either quadruplictity will drink procrastination or, provided that the nothing negates, boredom will ensue seldom more often than frequently.

Life is never boring, but some people choose to be bored.

I hate small towns because once you've seen the cannon in the park there's nothing else to do.

Never in the history of boredom has anyone been more bored than I am right now.

London is a huge, stony desert: even boredom feels endless there.

This ennui, for which we Saxons had no name,--this word of France, has got a terrific significance. It shortens life, and bereaves the day of its light.

Life is first boredom, then fear.

Be politically correct, but please don't bother other people with conversation about being politically correct, because that's the end of everything. You want to create boredom? Be politically correct in your conversation.

Boredom is the self being stuffed with itself.

Nothing is so stifling as symmetry. Symmetry is boredom, the quintessence of mourning. Despair yawns. There is something more terrible than a hell of suffering - a hell of boredom.

This is the curse of our age, even the strangest aberrations are no cure for boredom.

Boredom between two people doesn't come from being together physically. It comes from being apart mentally and spiritually.

Boredom is often the cause of promiscuity, and always its result.

Work is the world's easiest escape from boredom and the only surefire road to success.

I'm rather bored by the subject - meaning me. It's a sort of a yoke, but at times you know, a yoke is a kind of comfort. And it's always there.

To do the same thing over and over again is not only boredom: it is to be controlled by rather than to control what you do.

According to Gur's theory of boredom, everything that happens in the world today is because of boredom: love, war, inventions, fake fireplaces - ninety-five percent of all that is pure boredom.

Boredom has always been a problem.

If you're afraid to take risks in anything in life, it's just boredom.

What we feel at prayer is God's business, not ours, and we must strive to be totally abandoned to the presence of 'consolation' or of boredom when we pray. A clear understanding that the value of our prayer does not depend upon how we feel is extremely important if we are to persevere in prayer. So many people feel that if their prayer is distracted it cannot be pleasing to God, and are therefore led to abandon their efforts precisely when fidelity is of the most importance.