Boredom Quotes - Page 8

If I planned everything out in advance, I'd expire of boredom.

Violence is spiritual junk food, and boredom is spiritual anorexia.

Boredom is not in the world, but in the way we see the world.

Love fed fat soon turns to boredom.

People say that jealousy is the greatest enemy of love. They’re wrong. The greatest enemy of love is boredom.

Boredom is a mask frustration wears.

Grasp your opportunities, no matter how poor your health; nothing is worse for your health than boredom.

The world is rather shot to pieces [end of World War II - 1945], but the spectators climb out of their caves and pretend to have again become normal and customary humans who ask each other's pardon instead of eating one another or sucking each other's blood. The entertaining folly of war evaporates, distinguished boredom sits down again on the dignified old overstuffed chairs.. .May I report about myself that I have had a truly grotesque time, brim-full with work, Nazi persecutions, bombs, hunger, and again and again work - in spite of everything [a. o. using his bed sheets as canvas for the new paintings].

A philistine is habitually bored and looks for things that won't bore him. An artist finds things boring, but is never bored.

Ironically, often the thing that keeps me from experiencing joy is my preoccupation with self. The very selfishness that keeps me from pouring myself out for the joy of others also keeps me from noticing and delighting in the myriad small gifts God offers each day. This is why Walker Percy describes boredom as "the self stuffed with the self."

A scholar knows no boredom.

The inexorable boredom that is at the core of life.

It's the boredom that kills you. You read until you're tired of that. You do crossword puzzles until you're tired of that. This is torture. This is mental torture.

Boredom, Timothy Duane assured me, is nothing more than anger without passion.

I know when I'm working I seldom get into trouble. My educated guess is that boredom has caused most of the problems with Hollywood celebrities.

When I think about why I would be a writer, why I should continue to be a writer, it seems to me one of the few things you can dowhere you're never bored.

A yawn is a silent shout.

Against boredom the gods themselves fight in vain.

Greedhas no satiation point, since its consummation does not fill the inner emptiness, boredom, loneliness, and depression it is meant to overcome.

Boredom is nothing but the experience of a paralysis of our productive powers.

When people are bored it is primarily with themselves.

I don't want to do the same thing over and over again.

To fool a judge, feign fascination, but to bamboozle the whole court, feign boredom.

I'm willing to die, but... not of boredom.

Virtuous people often revenge themselves for the constraints to which they submit by the boredom which they inspire.