Boredom Quotes - page 2

The problem in public life is learning to overcome terror; the problem in married life is learning to overcome boredom. (Gabriel García Márquez)
Boredom is rage spread thin. View quote
Paul Tillich
Boredom is the dream bird that hatches the egg of experience. A rustling in the leaves drives him away. View quote
Walter Benjamin
Boredom is the root of all evil - the despairing refusal to be oneself. View quote
Søren Kierkegaard
Boredom: the desire for desires. View quote
Leo Tolstoy
If I planned everything out in advance, I'd expire of boredom. View quote
Peter Straub
I have to start my real life soon, before I die of boredom and frustration. View quote
William Boyd
None will ever be a true Parisian who has not learned to wear a mask of gaiety over his sorrows and one of sadness, boredom, or indifference over his inward joy. View quote
Gaston Leroux
Love alone is not enough. Without imagination, love stales into sentiment, duty, boredom. Relationships fail not because we have stopped loving but because we first stopped imagining. View quote
James Hillman
In a world where thrushes sing and willow trees are golden in the spring, boredom should have been included among the seven deadly sins. View quote
Elizabeth Goudge
When we hold back out of laziness, that is when we tie ourselves into knots of boredom. (Walter Annenberg)
All illegal narcotics are medicinal. Boredom is a disease worse than cancer. Drugs cure it, with little or no side effects if used as directed. Life's temporary for a reason, it gets boring after awhile. You should be inventing new drugs is what you should be doing! Newer, crazier drugs... and more holes, that's what you ladies need! View quote
Doug Stanhope
The life of the creative man is lead, directed and controlled by boredom. Avoiding boredom is one of our most important purposes. View quote
Susan Sontag
Man's need for art is absolutely primordial, as strong as, and perhaps stronger than, our need for bread. Without bread, we die of hunger, but without art we die of boredom. View quote
Jean Dubuffet
I never go to where's a risk. I'm frightened of dangers down to boredom. View quote
Fernando Pessoa
As I inched sluggishly along the treadmill of the Maycomb County school system, I could not help receiving the impression that I was being cheated out of something. Out of what I knew not, yet I did not believe that twelve years of unrelieved boredom was exactly what the state had in mind for me. View quote
Harper Lee
Boredom is like a pitiless zooming in on the epidermis of time. Every instant is dilated and magnified like the pores of the face. View quote
Jean Baudrillard
But maybe boredom is erotic, when women do it, for men. View quote
Margaret Atwood
He who seeks rest finds boredom. He who seeks work finds rest. View quote
Dylan Thomas
This world was created from God's fear of solitude. In other words, us, the creatures, have no other meaning but to distract the Creator. Poor clowns of the absolute, we forget that we live dramas for the boredom of a spectator, whose claps have never reached the ears of a mortal. View quote
Emil Cioran
A month passes by and brings another month. Easy to guess what lies ahead: all of yesterday's boredom. And tomorrow ends up no longer like tomorrow. (Constantine P. Cavafy)
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. View quote
André Maurois
Beneath a mask of selfish tranquility nothing exists except bitterness and boredom. I am one of those whom suffering has made empty and frivolous: each night in my dreams I pull the scab off a wound; each day, vacuous and habit-ridden, I help it re-form. View quote
Cyril Connolly
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. View quote
Angela Carter
Jonathan Seagull discovered that boredom and fear and anger are the reasons that a gull's life is so short, and with these gone from his thoughts, he lived a long fine life indeed. View quote
Richard Bach