Boredom Quotes - Page 9

Jump out the window if you are the object of passion. Flee it if you feel it. Passion goes, boredom remains.

One must work, if not from inclination, at least out of despair — since it proves, on close examination, that work is less boring than amusing oneself.

Only those who want everything done for them are bored.

Patience and boredom are closely related. Boredom, a certain kind of boredom, is really impatience. You don't like the way things are, they aren't interesting enough for you, so you deccide- and boredom is a decision-that you are bored.

They had not yet attained the stupefying boredom of omnipotence; their experiments did not always succeed.

Do you realise that people die of boredom in London suburbs? It's the second biggest cause of death amongs the English in general. Sheer boredom...

The worst pair of opposites is boredom and terror. Sometimes your life is a pendulum swing from one to the other.

Much is forgiven anyone who relieves the desperate boredom of the working press.

Boredom is the deadliest poison.

It is the unknown that excites the ardor of scholars, who, in the known alone, would shrivel up with boredom.

To die for the sake of dying - I prefer to die of passion than to die of boredom!

In many cases when a reader puts a story aside because it 'got boring,' the boredom arose because the writer grew enchanted with his powers of description and lost sight of his priority, which is to keep the ball rolling.

Boredom is the conviction that you can't change ... the shriek of unused capacities.

Boredom and stupidity and patriotism, especially when combined, are three of the greatest evils of the world we live in.

If you love music and it requires hours of practice that can be boring, you can survive the boredom, you're not going to love it but you can survive the boredom because you're connected to something that excites you.

Interruption, incoherence, surprise are the ordinary conditions of our life. They have even become real needs for many people, whose minds are no longer fed by anything but sudden changes and constantly renewed stimuli. We can no longer bear anything that lasts. We no longer know how to make boredom bear fruit. So the whole question comes down to this: can the human mind master what the human mind has made?

Many books are longer than they seem. They have indeed no end. The boredom that they cause is truly absolute and infinite.

Boredom slays more of existence than war.

The war between being and nothingness is the underlying illness of the twentieth century. Boredom slays more of existence than war.

It's not just a boring exercise in pushing oil paint around a canvas. It's a way of opening a threshold to an exciting new world of vision.

A typical day is full of anxiety and boredom. Flow experiences provide the flashes of intense living against this dull background.

Miss Searle had always considered boredom an intellectual defeat.

For both of us, I think, it had to do with our weakened power to love. It is strange that enslavement should have that effect – not just the fantastic degradation, not just the fear and the boredom and all the rest, but also the layered injustice, the silent injustice. So all right. We’re back where we started. To you, nothing – from you, everything. They took it from me, it seems, for no reason, other than that I value it so much.

Every time I think I've touched bottom as far as boredom is concerned, new vistas of ennui open up.

Everyone will recognize that each sound carries with it a tangle of sensations, already well-known and exhausted, which predispose the listener to boredom, in spite of the efforts of all musical innovators.