Boredom Quotes - page 4

Chronic boredom compensated or uncompensated constitutes one of the major psychopathological phenomena in contemporary technotronic society, although it is only recently that it has found some recognition. (Erich Fromm)
If sleep is the apogee of physical relaxation, boredom is the apogee of mental relaxation. Boredom is the dream bird that hatches the egg of experience. View quote
Walter Benjamin
Since boredom advances and boredom is the root of all evil, no wonder, then, that the world goes backwards, that evil spreads. This can be traced back to the very beginning of the world. The gods were bored; therefore they created human beings. View quote
Søren Kierkegaard
The word aerobics comes from two Greek words aero, meaning ability to, and bics, meaning withstand tremendous boredom. View quote
Dave Barry
The essence of life is the smile of round female bottoms, under the shadow of cosmic boredom. View quote
Guy de Maupassant
Against boredom, even the gods struggle in vain. View quote
Friedrich Nietzsche
The reason we'd stopped was that the buffet car was on fire, that was the reason we stopped. One of the giant biscuits spontaneously combusted out of boredom. Whoever was charged with making the announcement momentarily lost all sense of procedure and we got this tantalizing glimpse into the chaos on the trains, and all we could hear was (bangs on microphone) "Gary, it's burning, what we gonna do?!" And everyone on the carriage just cheered, "Hooray! We're rubbish!" View quote
Bill Bailey
Discussing how old you are is the temple of boredom. View quote
Ruth Gordon
Boredom is the biggest problem. The same position. Same day of the week. It becomes boring when you don't bring any added flowers home. View quote
Ruth Westheimer
He managed to convey indifference, contempt, and boredom in the one word. View quote
Charlaine Harris
He found himself in habiting the vast, empty plateau where most people live, between boredom and contentment. (Jess Walter)
When you pay attention to boredom it gets unbelievably interesting. View quote
Jon Kabat-Zinn
According to Gur's theory of boredom, everything that happens in the world today is because of boredom: love, war, inventions, fake fireplaces - ninety-five percent of all that is pure boredom. View quote
Etgar Keret
There is no one who has no leisure time at all. The office is not a permanent sanctuary, and Sundays are an institution. Thus, in principle, during those beautiful hours of free time everyone would have the opportunity to rouse himself into real boredom. But although one wants to do nothing, things are done to one: the world makes sure that one does not find oneself. And even if one perhaps isn't interested in it, the world itself is much too interested for one to find the peace and quiet necessary to be as thoroughly bored with the world as it ultimately deserves. View quote
Siegfried Kracauer
There's something dangerous about the boredom of teenage girls. View quote
Megan Abbott
You'll find boredom where there is the absence of a good idea. View quote
Earl Nightingale
Much is forgiven anyone who relieves the desperate boredom of the working press. View quote
William Weld
Airline travel is hours of boredom interrupted by moments of stark terror. View quote
Al Boliska
I always say, 'Books beat boredom,' said Amanda wisely. View quote
Mo Willems
Many persons lead lives of crushing boredom. View quote
Elizabeth Peters
How some of the writers I come across get through their books without dying of boredom is beyond me. (William Gaddis)
Enjoyment appears at the boundary between boredom and anxiety, when the challenges are just balanced with the person's capacity to act. View quote
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
Perhaps the world's second-worst crime is boredom; the first is being a bore. View quote
Cecil Beaton
I love heights. I love speed. I'm on the verge of being a pyromaniac. Maybe my phobia is boredom. View quote
Erin Wasson
Running through things because you are familiar with them, breeds routine and this is the seed of boredom. View quote
James Galway