Boredom Quotes - Page 8

• A typical day is full of anxiety and boredom. Flow experiences provide the flashes of intense living against this dull background.

  Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

  Anxiety, Typical, Dull

  9 Copy quote

• Want and boredom are indeed the twin poles of human life.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Blessing, Want, Twins

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2004). “On the Suffering of the World”, p.11, Penguin UK

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• I'm afraid of NOTHING except being bored!

  Greta Garbo

  Bored, Being Bored

  "Fictional character: Marguerite Gautier". "Camille", 1936.

  60 Copy quote

  Show source

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

  Francis Picabia

  Nature, Equality, Unfair

  15 Copy quote

• Boredom, that silent spider, was spinning its web in the darkness in every corner of her heart.

  Gustave Flaubert

  Heart, Blessing, Darkness

  Gustave Flaubert (2010). “Madame Bovary: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.60, Penguin

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• The function of football, soccer, basketball and other passion-sports in modern industrial society is the transference of boredom, frustration, anger and rage into socially acceptable forms of combat. A temporary substitute for war; for nationalism; identification with something bigger than the self.

  Edward Abbey

  Basketball, Soccer, Sports

  7 Copy quote

• Boredom is nothing but the experience of a paralysis of our productive powers and the sense of unaliveness. Among the evils of life, there are few which are as painful as boredom, and consequently every attempt is made to avoid it.

  Erich Fromm

  Evil, Painful, Made

  Erich Fromm (2013). “Sane Society Ils 252”, p.202, Routledge

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• I guess that as life is speeded up and our capacity for concentration is being nibbled away at by all the obvious things, that leads us actually to be more susceptible to boredom.

  Geoff Dyer

  Obvious Things, Life Is, Capacity

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• My life is a black hole of boredom and despair." "So basically you've been doing homework." "Like I said, black hole.

  Kiersten White

  Black, Despair, Homework

  27 Copy quote

• When we learn to TOLERATE boredom, we find out who we really are.

  Naomi Alderman

  Tolerate

  44 Copy quote

• 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.

  Andre Maurois

  Men, People, Interesting

  "The Art of Happiness". Book by Andre Maurois, 1971.

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• If the world were a paradise of luxury and ease, a land flowing with milk and honey, where every Jack obtained his Jill at once and without any difficulty, men would either die of boredom or hang themselves; or there would be wars, massacres, and murders; so that in the end mankind would inflict more suffering on itself than it has now to accept at the hands of Nature.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  War, Men, Milk And Honey

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2015). “The Suffering of the World”, p.6, Simon and Schuster

  5 Copy quote

  Show source

• In medieval times, if someone displayed the symptoms we now identify as boredom, that person was thought to be committing something called acedia, a 'dangerous form of spiritual alienation' -- a devaluing of the world and its creator.

  Richard Louv

  Spiritual, World, Medieval

  Richard Louv (2013). “Last Child in the Woods: Saving our Children from Nature-Deficit Disorder”, p.135, Atlantic Books Ltd

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• 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.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  People, Being Thankful, Gold

  4 Copy quote

• When you consider how epidemic boredom is in our time, you have to concede that entertaining is a healing art.

  Judith Martin

  Art, Healing, Epidemics

  Judith Martin (1986). “Style and substance: a comedy of manners”, Scribner

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Boredom is the consciousness of repetition. Because animals cannot remember the past, they cannot feel bored. They cannot remember the past, so they cannot feel bored. They cannot remember the past, so they cannot feel the repetition. The buffalo goes on eating the same grass every day with the same delight. You cannot. How can you eat the same grass with the same delight? You get fed up.

  Rajneesh

  Animal, Past, Delight

  4 Copy quote

• An enthusiast may bore others, but he has never a dull moment himself.

  John F. Kieran

  Dull, May, Moments

  8 Copy quote

• Jump out the window if you are the object of passion. Flee it if you feel it. Passion goes, boredom remains.

  Coco Chanel

  Passion, Blessing, Window

  10 Copy quote

• Boredom is just the reverse side of fascination.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Philosophical, Fascination, Sides

  21 Copy quote

• It's precisely in those moments when I don't know what to do, boredom drives one to try a host of possibilities to either get somewhere or not get anywhere.

  Anish Kapoor

  Blessing, Trying, Host

  11 Copy quote

• In love there are no vacations. No such thing. Love has to be lived fully with its boredom and all that.

  Marguerite Duras

  Blessing, Vacation

  39 Copy quote

• Without lies humanity would perish of despair and boredom.

  Anatole France

  Lying, Humanity, Despair

  "The last word on lying" by AC Grayling, www.theguardian.com. September 17, 1999.

  14 Copy quote

  Show source

• Boredom is the legitimate kingdom of the philanthropic.

  Virginia Woolf

  Blessing, Reality, Kingdoms

  Virginia Woolf, Anne Olivier Bell (1977). “The Diary of Virginia Woolf: 1915-1919”, Chatto & Windus

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• Boredom is the dream bird that hatches the egg of experience. A rustling in the leaves drives him away.

  Walter Benjamin

  Dream, Eggs, Bird

  Walter Benjamin, Marcus Paul Bullock, Michael William Jennings, Howard Eiland, Gary Smith (2002). “Selected Writings: 1935-1938”, p.149, Harvard University Press

  10 Copy quote

  Show source

• Virtuous people often revenge themselves for the constraints to which they submit by the boredom which they inspire.

  Confucius

  Revenge, Blessing, People

  10 Copy quote