Boredom Quotes - Page 10

• For I have neither wit, nor words, nor worth, Action, nor utterance, nor the power of speech, To stir men's blood: I only speak right on; I tell you that which you yourselves do know.

  William Shakespeare

  Men, Blood, Utterance

  'Julius Caesar' (1599) act 3, sc. 2, l. [225]

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• These days, when people are alone, or feel a moment of boredom, they tend to reach for a device. In a movie theater, at a stop sign, at the checkout line at a supermarket and, yes, at a memorial service, reaching for a device becomes so natural that we start to forget that there is a reason, a good reason, to sit still with our thoughts: It does honor to what we are thinking about. It does honor to ourselves.

  Sherry Turkle

  Thinking, People, Memorial

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• 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.

  James Hillman

  Love, Imagination, Firsts

  James Hillman (2012). “The Force of Character: And the Lasting Life”, p.186, Ballantine Books

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• The great thing is the thing of being able to see things through many points of view. That's enlarging. I mean, it saves you from ultimately from the boredom of having one point of view, like being locked in a room with nothing but your own point of view, your own references.

  Jerry Garcia

  Mean, Views, Able

  Source: medium.com

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• I think the fear of being seen as childish or crazy severely limits our enjoyment of the world around us, thus inducing a state of boredom that in turn gives rise to much of the stupidity and meanness that oftem seem to epitomize the human condtion. In fact, these ills merely signify that the dues we pay for adult respectability are far too high, and bring some 'benefits' of questionable value.

  D. Patrick Miller

  Fear, Crazy, Thinking

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• Boredom is a sign of satisfied ignorance, blunted apprehension, crass sympathies, dull understanding, feeble powers of attention, and irreclaimable weakness of character.

  James Bridie

  Ignorance, Character, Understanding

  James Bridie, Association for Scottish Literary Studies (2007). “The devil to stage: five plays”, Association for Scottish Literary Studies (ASLS)

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• The merely well-informed man is the most useless bore on God's earth.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Men, Useless, Earth

  Alfred North Whitehead (1967). “Aims of Education”, p.1, Simon and Schuster

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• The average man gets his living by such depressing devices that boredom becomes a sort of natural state to him.

  H. L. Mencken

  Life, Depressing, Men

  H. L. Mencken (2015). “In Defense of Women: Human Sexuality”, p.49, 谷月社

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• The inexorable boredom that is at the core of life.

  Jacques-Benigne Bossuet

  Life, Inexorable, Core

  "A Book of French Quotations" edited by Norbert Guterman, 1963.

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• That human life must be some kind of mistake is sufficiently proved by the simple observation that man is a compound of needs which are hard to satisfy; that their satisfaction achieves nothing but a painless condition in which he is only given over to boredom . . .

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Mistake, Simple, Men

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2004). “On the Suffering of the World”, p.22, Penguin UK

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• The gods were bored and so they created man. Adam was bored because he was alone, so Eve was created. Thus boredom entered the world, and increased in proportion to the increase in population. Adam was bored alone, then Adam and Eve were bored together; them Adam and Eve and Cain and Abel were bored en famille; then the population of the world increased, and the people were bored en masse.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Men, People, Together

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• Boredom and fatigue are great historical forces.

  Jacques Barzun

  Historical, Force, Fatigue

  "The age of entropy" by Stephen Moss, www.theguardian.com. March 2, 2001.

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• Ennui is the disease of hearts without feeling, and of minds without resources.

  Madame Roland

  Heart, Feelings, Mind

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• Conclusion 1: Boredom= Flared tempers= hard words

  Bisco Hatori

  Temper, Conclusion, Hard Words

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• I mean, evil and boredom. Evil and ennui. Evil and the lack of stimulation. Evil and sluggish blood.

  Gregory Maguire

  Mean, Blood, Evil

  Gregory Maguire (2013). “The Wicked Years Complete Collection: Wicked, Son of a Witch, A Lion Among Men, and Out of Oz”, p.82, Harper Collins

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• You need to let little things that would ordinarily bore you suddenly thrill you.

  Andy Warhol

  Bores You, Needs, Thrill

  "Andy Warhol's party book".

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• There are six reasons anyone does anything: Love. Faith. Greed. Boredom. Fear..." he said, ticking them off on his fingers; but he lingered on the last, drawing a deep breath before he said, "Revenge.

  Ally Carter

  Revenge, Drawing, Bored

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• One source of frustration in the workplace is the frequent mismatch between what people must do and what people can do. When what they must do exceeds their capabilities, the result is anxiety. When what they must do falls short of their capabilities, the result is boredom. But when the match is just right, the results can be glorious. This is the essence of flow.

  Daniel H. Pink

  Fall, Frustration, Essence

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• My men have suffered greatly (from boredom), much blood has been shed (by mosquitoes), and I have swung my ax mightily (chopping firewood). Surely we have earned our place in the annals of history—for never has there been so little war in a war.

  Seth Grahame-Smith

  War, Men, Blood

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• Emptiness and boredom: what an understatement. What I felt was complete desolation. Desolation, despair, and depression. Isn't there some other way to look at this? After all, angst of these dimensions is a luxury item. You need to be well fed, clothes, and housed to have time for this much self-pity.

  Susanna Kaysen

  Self, Luxury, Clothes

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• He was prepared to die for it, as one of Baudelaire's dandies might have been prepared to kill himself in order to preserve himself in the condition of a work of art, for he wanted to make this experience a masterpiece of experience which absolutely transcended the everyday. And this would annihilate the effects of the cruel drug, boredom, to which he was addicted although, perhaps, the element of boredom which is implicit in an affair so isolated from the real world was its principle appeal for him.

  Angela Carter

  Art, Real, Order

  Angela Carter (1997). “Burning your boats: the collected short stories”, Penguin Group USA

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• I am bored with gabbers and their gab; my soul abhors them. . . . Is there any place where there is no traffic in empty talk? Is there on this earth one who does not worship himself talking?

  Khalil Gibran

  Talking, Soul, Doe

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• As for America, it is the ideal fruit of all your youthful hopes and reforms. Everybody is fairly decent, respectable, domestic, bourgeois, middle-class, and tiresome. There is absolutely nothing to revile except that it's a bore.

  Henry Adams

  Class, America, Reform

  Henry Adams, Jacob Clavner Levenson, Ernest Samuels, Charles Vandersee (1982). “The Letters of Henry Adams”, p.200, Harvard University Press

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• Boredom and restlessness are deeply related. Whenever you feel boredom, then you feel restlessness. Restlessness is a by-product of boredom.

  Rajneesh

  Feels, Products, Related

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• If you really want a life which has no boredom in it, drop all masks, be true. Sometimes it will be difficult, I know, but it is worth it. Be true.

  Rajneesh

  Want, Sometimes, Mask

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