Boredom Quotations | Page 2

She had been bored all afternoon by Percy Gryce... but she could not ignore him on the morrow, she must follow up her success, must submit to more boredom, must be ready with fresh compliances and adaptibilities, and all on the bare chance that he might ultimately decide to do her the honour of boring her for life.

Boredom soon overcomes me when I am contemplating nature.

A well-stocked mind is safe from boredom.

Utopia was here at last: its novelty had not yet been assailed by the supreme enemy of a ll Utopias - boredom.

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

It seems to me that all of the evil in life comes from idleness, boredom, and psychic emptiness, but all of that is inevitable when you become accustomed to living at others' expense.

What's the use of talking? You can see for yourself that this is a barbarous country; the people have no morals; and the boredom!

The secret of boring people lies in telling them everything.

The Chinese have a theory that you pass through boredom into fascination and I think it's true. I would never choose a subject for what it means to me or what I think about it. You've just got to choose a subject - and what you feel about it, what it means, begins to unfold if you just plain choose a subject and do it enough.

Really, these wizards! You'd think no one had ever had a cold before! Well, what is it?" she asked, hobbling through the bedroom door onto the filthy carpet. "I'm dying of boredom," Howl said pathetically. "Or maybe just dying.

Sometimes many publishers prefer that you write the same book every time, but I have a low boredom threshold so that isn't going to happen.

Who does not recall school at least in part as endless dreary hours of boredom punctuated by moments of high anxiety?

Boredom is not black licorice, Snicket," she said. "There's no reason to share it with me.

Of course, it is boring to read about boring thing, but it is better to read something that makes you yawn with boredom than something that will make you weep uncontrollably, pound your fists against the floor, and leave tearstains all over your pillowcase, sheets, and boomerang collection.

The first effect of adjusting to other people is that one becomes boring.

It's boredom. No other reason than that.

There are moments when, faced with our lack of success, I wonder whether we are failures, proud but impotent. One thing reassures me as to our value: the boredom that afflicts us. It is the hall-mark of quality in modern men.

I have the impression that if he didn't complicate his life so needlessly, he would die of boredom.

Boredom has always been a problem.

Many persons lead lives of crushing boredom.

Learn from the mistakes of others. You can't live long enough to make them all yourself. Boredom sets into boring minds. The more original a discovery, the more obvious it seems afterwards.

Despair leads to boredom, electronic games, computer hacking, poetry and other bad habits.

Learning lines is hard for me because I have the attention span of a six year old. That's why being on planes all the time is so useful - I'm forced to learn out of boredom.

One must chose in life between boredom and suffering

My depressions aren't so much... depression's too heavy a word. I get very down and y'know, boredom is the key to it as I've said.

I would expect there are students out there who rationalize that they cheated out of boredom with the class. That's like justifying a bank robbery, you can't.

His own boredom could be a problem. He could stay on top a long time -- if that's what he wants. That's a big 'if.' That's up to him. He's under a lot of pressure, and the next few years will be a problem. He won't mature until he's 25.

It is probably not a bad thing for somebody doing data entry, for instance, where the boredom and monotony of it takes a toll on performance.

Listen to your life. See it for the fathomless mystery that it is. In the boredom and pain of it no less than in the excitement and gladness: touch, taste, smell your way to the holy and hidden heart of it because in the last analysis all moments are key moments, and life itself is grace.

Defeat is a thing of weariness, of incoherence, of boredom, and above all futility.

Commonly, people believe that defeat is characterized by a general bustle and a feverish rush. Bustle and rush are the signs of victory, not of defeat. Victory is a thing of action. It is a house in the act of being built. Every participant in victory sweats and puffs, carrying the stones for the building of the house. But defeat is a thing of weariness, of incoherence, of boredom. And above all of futility.

Something doing every minute' may be a gesture of despair-or the height of a battle against boredom.

My despair is less despair than boredom and loneliness.

We each can accomplish so much in this world. There is no room for boredom

The few love affairs which had come my way had been rather silly and sordid. They had not revealed the possibilities of love; in fact I had thought it a somewhat overrated pleasure, a brief and brutal blindness with boredom and disgust hard on its heels.

The merely well-informed man is the most useless bore on God's earth.

Hours and hours passed, with nothing to do but keep the compass on its course and the plane on a level keel. This sounds easy enough, but its very simplicity becomes a danger when your head keeps nodding with weariness and utter boredom and your eyes everlastingly try to shut out the confusing rows of figures in front of you, which will insist on getting jumbled together.

There are six reasons anyone does anything: Love. Faith. Greed. Boredom. Fear..." he said, ticking them off on his fingers; but he lingered on the last, drawing a deep breath before he said, "Revenge.

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

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...

Boredom is a disease worse than cancer. Drugs cure it.

Hell is more like boredom, or not having enough to do, and too much time to contemplate one's deficiencies.

He regards boredom, I observe, as the One and Mighty Enemy of his soul. And will succeed in conquering it, I am sure—if he survives the experience.

It is important to grasp that boredom is one of the most common - and undesirable - consequences of 'unicameralism'. Boredom is a feeling of being 'dead inside'; that is to say, loss of contact with our instincts and feelings.

Down time is where we become ourselves... a hiatus that passes for boredom but is really the quiet moving of the wheels inside that fuel creativity.

They were connoisseurs of boredom. They savoured the various bouquets of the subtly differentiated boredoms which rose from the long, wasted hours at the dead end of night.

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

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.

The laws that keep us safe, these same laws condemn us to boredom.

Flying to me isn't scary, it's just incredibly boring. And I guess I have a fear of boredom, so in that regard, I'm afraid to fly.

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.

Among the idle rich, boredom is one of the most common causes of unhappiness. People who have difficulty in earning their living may suffer greatly, but they are not bored. Wealthy men and women become bored when they depend upon the theater for their enjoyment instead of making their own lives interesting.

The key is the ability, whether innate or conditioned, to find the other side of the rote, the picayune, the meaningless, the repetitive, the pointlessly complex. 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.

There happen to be whole large parts of adult American life that nobody talks about in commencement speeches. One such part involves boredom, routine, and petty frustration.

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

Most people can't handle boredom. That means they can't stay on one thing until they get good at it. And they wonder why they're unhappy.

Hard work never killed a man. Men die of boredom, psychological conflict, and disease. They do not die of hard work.

Nothing prevents boredom like a good book.

Boredom is a pleasing antidote for fear

Obesity is a mental state, a disease brought on by boredom and disappointment.

Beneath a mask of selfish tranquility nothing exists except bitterness and boredom.

True will-power and courage are not on the battlefield, but in everyday conquests over our intertia, laziness, boredom.

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."

Writer's block is the greatest side effect of boredom

Boredom is a sickness the cure for which is work; pleasure is only a palliative.

Boredom is a big factor. When it's just a job, it's time to leave.

The word aerobics comes from two Greek words: aero, meaning "ability to," and bics, meaning "withstand tremendous boredom

The temptation to quit and start over infects every creative process I've ever been in. Frustration and boredom always fuel this self-doubt.

People sometimes tell me that they prefer barbarism to civilization. I doubt if they have given it a long enough trial. Like the people of Alexandria, they are bored by civilization; but all the evidence suggests that the boredom of barbarism is infinitely greater.

Some people eat it three meals a day, almost to the point of boredom for me. I think it's because it's really spicy.

The British may be reluctant to storm the plane with so many women and children on board. They're more likely to simply use boredom as a weapon, waiting out the crisis and letting the hijackers tire and then later offering them a way out.

It's 90 percent boredom and 10 percent sheer terror.

Football is about glory, it is about doing things in style and with a flourish, about going out and beating the lot, not waiting for them to die of boredom

By his very success in inventing labor-saving devices modern man has manufactured an abyss of boredom that only the privileged classes in earlier civilizations have ever fathomed

No man should go through life without once experiencing healthy, even bored solitude in the wilderness, finding himself depending solely on himself and thereby learning his true and hidden strength

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

Turning fifty ... is like flying: hours of boredom punctuated by moments of sheer terror.

Down with boredom. It has to go.

People who have escaped from poverty are like old soldiers. In later years they recount the little, amusing incidents that happened infrequently, and conveniently forget the long, unrelieved stretches of misery and boredom.

The so-called conscientiousness of the majority of painters is only perfection applied to the art of boring.

When a thing bores you, do not do it.

Boredom flourishes too, when you feel safe. It's a symptom of security.

I love heights. I love speed. Im on the verge of being a pyromaniac. Maybe my phobia is boredom.

And there is a time, glorious too in its own way, when one scarcely exists, when one is a complete void. I mean, when boredom seems the very stuff of life.

The problem in public life is learning to overcome terror; the problem in married life is learning to overcome boredom.

Usually I avoided college students, whom I considered brutal, wrapped up in themselves, particularly in their youth, in which they found material for drama or an excuse for their own boredom. I did not care for young people.

I have a fear of being boring.

Books - the best antidote against the marsh-gas of boredom and vacuity

I suppose you could call me...Soot," said the thing. "Yes...Soot. I have breathed it, lived in it, and eaten it for so long that it is a fitting name." "Eaten it?" asked Suzy. "Why eat soot?" "Boredom," said Soot.

My boredom with everything has numbed me.

I never go to where's a risk. I'm frightened of dangers down to boredom.

I'm something that I used to be. I'm never where I feel I am, and if I seek myself, I don't know who's seeking me. My boredom with everything has numbed me. I feel banished from my soul.

I am tired to death! tired of every thing! I would give the universe for a disposition less difficult to please. Yet, after all, what is there to give pleasure? When one has seen one thing, one has seen every thing.

Nature is unfair? So much the better, inequality is the only bearable thing, the monotony of equality can only lead us to boredom.

Of course boredom may lead you to anything. It is boredom sets one sticking golden pins into people, but all that would not matter. What is bad (this is my comment again) is that I dare say people will be thankful for the gold pins then.

Good digestions, the gray monotony of provincial life, and the boredom-ah the soul-destroying boredom-of long days of mild content.

What is boredom? It is when there is simultaneously too much and not enough.

A scholar knows no boredom.

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.

Happiness is fugitive; dissatisfaction and boredom are real.