Boredom Quotes - page 10

Greedhas no satiation point, since its consummation does not fill the inner emptiness, boredom, loneliness, and depression it is meant to overcome. (Erich Fromm)
All Nine often used to come to me, I mean the Muses: But I ignored them: my girl was in my arms. Now I've left my sweetheart: and they've left me, And I roll my eyes, seeking a knife or rope. But Heaven is full of gods: You came to aid me: Greetings, Boredom, mother of the Muse. View quote
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Boredom, anger, sadness, or fear are not 'yours,' not personal. They are conditions of the human mind. They come and go. Nothing that comes and goes is you. View quote
Eckhart Tolle
Our only competition in the theater is boredom, because if I'm bored with a play, if I'm revolted by a play on stage, with the Broadway prices, especially today, I'm going to walk out and not come back and pay that price again. View quote
Jerome Lawrence
Men become utilitarian out of fear of the alternative-the chaos of tangled or tepid desires, of rootlessness and boredom. View quote
John Carroll
Even boredom has its crises. View quote
Mason Cooley
Grasp your opportunities, no matter how poor your health; nothing is worse for your health than boredom. View quote
Mignon McLaughlin
Boredom is often the cause of promiscuity, and always its result. View quote
Mignon McLaughlin
It's not hard to understand why an accomplished director like Gus Van Sant (whose most recent success, Good Will Hunting, gave him mainstream clout) would be interested in making this film. The lure of an exact remake presents a tremendous challenge. Unfortunately, it was undoubtedly a lot more stimulating for Van Sant and his crew to make Psycho than it is for an audience to watch it. [C]uriosity is going to be one of the primary reasons why people pay money to see this movie; boredom will be the predominant result. View quote
James Berardinelli
The long sobs of The violins Of autumn Lay waste my heart With monotones Of boredom. View quote
Paul Verlaine
Boredom comes simply from ignorance and lack of imagination. (Susan Ertz)
This planet is haunted by us; the other occupants just evade boredom by filling our skies and seas with monsters. View quote
John Keel
Your true traveller finds boredom rather agreeable than painful. It is the symbol of his liberty - his excessive freedom. He accepts his boredom, when it comes, not merely philosophically, but almost with pleasure. View quote
Aldous Huxley
Boredom is the conviction that you can't change... the shriek of unused capacities. View quote
Saul Bellow
Boredom is an instrument of social control. Power is the power to impose boredom, to command stasis, to combine this stasis with anguish. The real tedium, deep tedium, is seasoned with terror and with death. View quote
Saul Bellow
Boredom can be a lethal thing on a small island. View quote
Christopher Moore (author)
Could I interest you in everything? All of the time? A little bit of everything All of the time Apathy's a tragedy And boredom is a crime Anything and everything All of the time. View quote
Bo Burnham
It is not the simple statement of facts that ushers in freedom; it is the constant repetition of them that has this liberating effect. Tolerance is the result not of enlightenment, but of boredom. View quote
Quentin Crisp
It is only a step from boredom to disillusionment, which leads naturally to self-pity, which in turn ends in chaos. View quote
Manly Palmer Hall
I'm a slave to my emotions, to my likes, to my hatred of boredom, to most of my desires. View quote
F. Scott Fitzgerald
God created woman. And boredom did indeed cease from that moment - but many other things ceased as well! Woman was God's second mistake. (Friedrich Nietzsche)
We define boredom as the pain a person feels when he's doing nothing or something irrelevant, instead of something he wants to do but won't, can't, or doesn't dare. Boredom is acute when he knows the other thing and inhibits his action, e. g., out of politeness, embarrassment, fear of punishment or shame. Boredom is chronic if he has repressed the thought of it and no longer is aware of it. A large part of stupidity is just the chronic boredom, for a person can't learn, or be intelligent about, what he's not interested in, when his repressed thoughts are elsewhere. View quote
Paul Goodman
The presidency has many problems, but boredom is the least of them. View quote
Richard Nixon
Sociopaths are not inhibited by the notion that it's wrong to be addicted, or wrong to buy illegal drugs. Also, drinking or taking drugs can be a lot of fun, and even if it's not, it can dull that painful boredom for a while. So can certain other things, like taking risks, and particularly if you take a risk-averse person and you can manipulate him or her into taking risks, that's really fun. View quote
Martha Stout
When you were a child, where boredom could actually get to be painful. Sociopaths experience that kind of pain in boredom. And so to be alone, to have nobody to play the game with, can be painful. It's not exactly fear, it's a kind of pain. View quote
Martha Stout