Boredom Quotes - Page 7

They say that adultery is the main thing that can damage a marriage, but it's not. It's boredom.

Papa's love did indeed have wondrous properties: it not only compensated for her boredom and anxiety, it was the cause of her boredom and anxiety.

The only unhappiness is a life of boredom.

The gods were bored and so they created man. Adam was bored because he was alone, so Eve was created. Thus boredom entered the world, and increased in proportion to the increase in population. Adam was bored alone, then Adam and Eve were bored together; them Adam and Eve and Cain and Abel were bored en famille; then the population of the world increased, and the people were bored en masse.

Boredom rests upon the nothingness that winds its way through existence; its giddiness, like that which comes from gazing down into an infinite abyss, is infinite.

Everyone rushes his life on, and suffers from a yearning for the future and a boredom with the present. But that man who devotes every hour to his own needs, who plans every day as if it were his last, neither longs for nor fears tomorrow.

Boredom is the biggest problem. The same position. Same day of the week. It becomes boring when you don't bring any added flowers home.

It is remarkable, in cats, that the outer life they reveal to their masters is one of perpetual boredom.

Boredom is rage spread thin.

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.

Ennui is the disease of hearts without feeling, and of minds without resources.

Boredom is the most horrible of wolves.

Running through things because you are familiar with them, breeds routine and this is the seed of boredom.

Freedom without any purpose feels a whole lot like boredom.

To be, in a word, unborable.... It is the key to modern life. If you are immune to boredom, there is literally nothing you cannot accomplish

I have a fear of being boring.

One thing I can say about George... he may not be able to keep a job, but he's not boring.

Boredom is just the reverse side of fascination: both depend on being outside rather than inside a situation, and one leads to the other.

A great affliction of all Philistines is that idealities afford them no entertainment, but to escape from boredom they are always in need of realities.

Is boredom anything less than the sense of one's faculties slowly dying?

It's precisely in those moments when I don't know what to do, boredom drives one to try a host of possibilities to either get somewhere or not get anywhere.

The concept of boredom entails an inability to use up present moments in a personally fulfilling way.

Boredom is the dream bird that hatches the egg of experience. A rustling in the leaves drives him away.

I didn't leave physics because of boredom. I left it because other issues compelled me in a bigger way. And I always say to myself, "When I'm 60, I'd like to go back to what I interrupted."

Painting bores me like everything else. Unfortunately, painting is one of the activities - it is bound up in the series of activities - that seems to change almost nothing in life, the same habits are always recurring.