Boredom Quotes - Page 13

• 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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• Sociopaths are not inhibited by the notion that it's wrong to be addicted, or wrong to buy illegal drugs. Also, drinking or taking drugs can be a lot of fun, and even if it's not, it can dull that painful boredom for a while. So can certain other things, like taking risks, and particularly if you take a risk-averse person and you can manipulate him or her into taking risks, that's really fun.

  Martha Stout

  Fun, Drinking, Drug

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• In many inner cities, there are issues of less economic stability, poorer education, community centers being stripped away, arts being removed from the school system leaving many children imbalanced, isolated from their most powerful self... the independent thinker, the creator, the dreamer often leaving children more susceptible to other harmful things out of boredom or feelings of rejection.

  Mya

  Art, Children, Powerful

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Without a job all there is to life is boredom and insecurity.

  John Lennon

  Jobs, Insecurity, Life Is

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• There's something about trying to know when you really need to protect yourself, or else you're not going to get anything done, and sometimes to be really uncomfortable or agitated or annoyed or bored. Boredom is so important.

  Regina Spektor

  Annoyed, Important, Trying

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Ennui has made more gamblers than avarice.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Made, Ennui, Drunkards

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• This Marxian sentence, repeated to the point of boredom, is misinterpreted. In reality [Karl] Marx was a "religious" man.

  Erich Fromm

  Religious, Reality, Men

  Source: www.scribd.com

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• one sank into the ancient sin of anomie when challenges failed.

  Carolyn Heilbrun

  Challenges, Sin, Ancient

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• Conclusion 1: Boredom= Flared tempers= hard words

  Bisco Hatori

  Temper, Conclusion, Hard Words

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• Emptiness and boredom: what a complete understatement. What I felt was complete desolation. Desolation, despair and boredom.

  Susanna Kaysen

  Despair, Emptiness, Desolation

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• No society ever seems to have succumbed to boredom. Man has developed an obvious capacity for surviving the pompous reiteration of the commonplace.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Men, Capacity, Obvious

  John Kenneth Galbraith (1998). “The Affluent Society”, p.16, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Audacious ribald: your laughter will finish in hideous boredom before morning.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Morning, Laughter, Ribald

  George Bernard Shaw (2012). “Man and Superman: A Comedy and a Philosophy”, p.170, The Floating Press

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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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• 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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• Thus I progressed on the surface of life, in the realm of words as it were, never in reality. All those books barely read, those friends barely loved, those cities barely visited, those women barely possessed! I went through the gestures out of boredom or absent-mindedness. Then came human beings; they wanted to cling, but there was nothing to cling to, and that was unfortunate--for them. As for me, I forgot. I never remembered anything but myself.

  Albert Camus

  Book, Reality, Cities

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Fall”, p.50, Vintage

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• This was solidarity. The debutante having her toenails pedicured - the housewife buying carrots from a pushcart - the bookkeeper who had wanted to be a pianist, but has the excuse of a sister to support - the businessman who hated his business - the worker who hated his work - the intellectual who hated everybody - all were united as brothers in the luxury of common anger that cured boredom and took them out of themselves, and they knew well enough what a blessing it was to be taken out of themselves.

  Ayn Rand

  Brother, Taken, Blessing

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• Boredom and stupidity and patriotism, especially when combined, are three of the greatest evils of the world we live in.

  Robertson Davies

  Evil, Stupidity, Three

  Robertson Davies (1976). “World of wonders”, Penguin Books, 1977

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• The fancies that take their monstrous birth from the spinelessness and boredom of usurped wealth bring in their wake every defect ... and though rich men's crimes escape the law, protected as they are by the cowardice of governments and people, Nature, more real than society, sets her anarchic example by abandoning the wretched time servers of Capital to the shame and madness of the worst aberrations.

  Jean Lorrain

  Real, Men, Law

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• Jonathan Seagull discovered that boredom and fear and anger are the reasons that a gull's life is so short, and with those gone from his thought, he lived a long fine life indeed.

  Richard Bach

  Fear, Long, Gone

  Richard Bach (2014). “Jonathan Livingston Seagull: The New Complete Edition”, p.26, Simon and Schuster

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• He found himself in habiting the vast, empty plateau where most people live, between boredom and contentment.

  Jess Walter

  People, Contentment, Empty

  Jess Walter (2012). “Beautiful Ruins: A Novel”, p.9, Harper Collins

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• I did not love you out or boredom or loneliness or caprice. I loved you because the desire for you was stronger than any happiness.

  Alessandro Baricco

  Loneliness, Love You, Desire

  Alessandro Baricco (2013). “Ocean Sea”, p.182, Canongate Books

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• Of course, true love is exceptional - two or three times a century, more or less. The rest of the time there is vanity or boredom.

  Albert Camus

  Love Is, Vanity, Two

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Fall”, p.57, Vintage

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• Hard work never killed a man. Men die of boredom, psychological conflict, and disease. They do not die of hard work.

  David Ogilvy

  Hard Work, Men, Disease

  David Ogilvy (1978). “Blood, Brains and Beer”

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