Boredom Quotes - page 9

To do the same thing over and over again is not only boredom: it is to be controlled by rather than to control what you do. (Heraclitus)
Nature is interested in only two things - to survive and to reproduce one like itself. Anything you superimpose on that, all the cultural input, is responsible for the boredom of man. View quote
U. G. Krishnamurti
There's a rebirth that goes on with us continuously as human beings. I don't understand, personally, how you can be bored. I can understand how you can be depressed, but I just don't understand boredom. View quote
Dustin Hoffman
Maybe happiness too is a metaphor invented on a day of boredom. View quote
Gustave Flaubert
Culture, Alienation, Boredom and Despair. View quote
Richey James Edwards
Do you know freedom exists in a school book Did you know madmen are running our prisons Within a jail Within a gaol Within a white free protestant maelstrom We're perched headlong on the edge of boredom We're reaching for death on the end of a candle We're trying for something that's already found us. View quote
Jim Morrison
Morality is a venereal disease. Its primary stage is called virtue; its secondary stage, boredom; its tertiary stage, syphilis. View quote
Karl Kraus
Jump out the window if you are the object of passion. Flee it if you feel it. Passion goes, boredom remains. View quote
Coco Chanel
As soon as you set foot on a yacht you belong to some man, not to yourself, and you die of boredom. View quote
Coco Chanel
Virtuous people often revenge themselves for the constraints to which they submit by the boredom which they inspire. View quote
Confucius
I've seen excitement, and I've seen boredom. And boredom was best. (Terry Pratchett)
There was only one thing of which he could be certain now. Boredom would not be a serious problem for a considerable time to come. View quote
Arthur C. Clarke
Boredom. He takes it with him everywhere, like an angry shaggy terrier that he sets on others from time to time. View quote
Imre Kertész
I can excuse everything but boredom. Boring people don't have to stay that way. View quote
Hedy Lamarr
I know when I'm working I seldom get into trouble. My educated guess is that boredom has caused most of the problems with Hollywood celebrities. View quote
Hedy Lamarr
I would rather die of passion than of boredom. View quote
Émile Zola
Boredom, after all, is a form of criticism. View quote
Wendell Phillips
There is something more terrible than a hell of suffering--a hell of boredom. View quote
Victor Hugo
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. View quote
Garth Nix
What is clear should not be drawn out too much. These useless explanations, these endless examinations are a kind of long whiteness and lead to boredom. It is the uniformity of a wall, of a long piece of laundry. View quote
Joseph Joubert
Politeness is the art of bearing boredom without being bored. (Joseph Joubert)
No outsider can imagine the stupidity, blustering hysteria, authoritarianism, and paralyzing boredom of shooting a flick for Billy Wilder. The so-called "actors" are simply trained poodles who sit up on their hind legs and jump through hoops. I thought the insanity would never stop. But I got a shitload of money. View quote
Klaus Kinski
I would rather die of passion than of boredom. View quote
Vincent van Gogh
My surroundings here [in the asylum St. Remy ] begin to weigh on me more than I can express - my word, I have had patience for more than a year - I need air, I feel overwhelmed with boredom and depression. View quote
Vincent van Gogh
Exploitation and manipulation produce boredom and triviality; they cripple man, and all factors that make man into a psychic cripple turn him also into a sadist or a destroyer. View quote
Erich Fromm