Boredom Quotes - Page 15

• What annoys a person who suicides? The life itself. Boredom. Tiredness that descends on every morning when you look at yourself at the mirror.

  Henning Mankell

  Suicide, Morning, Mirrors

  FaceBook post by Henning Mankell from Jan 07, 2013

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• My boredom with everything has numbed me.

  Fernando Pessoa

  Fernando Pessoa (2002). “The Book of Disquiet”, p.172, Penguin UK

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• When I get real bored, I like to drive downtown and get a great parking spot, then sit in my car and count how many people ask if I'm leaving.

  Steven Wright

  Funny, Real, Humor

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• ...my boredom might be described as a malady affecting external objects and consisting of a withering process; an almost instantaneous loss of vitality--just as though one saw a flower change in a few seconds from a bud to decay and dust.

  Alberto Moravia

  Flower, Loss, Dust

  Alberto Moravia (2011). “Boredom”, p.5, New York Review of Books

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• Violence is spiritual junk food, and boredom is spiritual anorexia.

  Peter Kreeft

  Spiritual, Anorexia, Junk

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• But maybe boredom is erotic, when women do it, for men.

  Margaret Atwood

  Men, Erotic

  Margaret Atwood (1986). “The Handmaid's Tale”, p.69, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• They say that death kills you, But death doesn't kill you. Boredom and indifference kill you.

  Iggy Pop

  Indifference

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• He regards boredom, I observe, as the One and Mighty Enemy of his soul. And will succeed in conquering it, I am sure—if he survives the experience.

  Dorothy Dunnett

  Soul, Enemy, Succeed

  Dorothy Dunnett (1999). “The Disorderly Knights: The Lymond Chronicles Book Three”, p.43, Penguin UK

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• The most total opposite of pleasure is not pain but boredom, for we are willing to risk pain to make a boring life interesting.

  Peter Kreeft

  Pain, Opposites, Interesting

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• I have always regarded as a stroke of good fortune that I was not born or brought up in a small American town; they may be the backbone of the nation, but they are also the backbone of ignorance, bigotry, and boredom, all in vast quantities.

  Gore Vidal

  Ignorance, May, Towns

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• None will ever be a true Parisian who has not learned to wear a mask of gaiety over his sorrows and one of sadness, boredom, or indifference over his inward joy.

  Gaston Leroux

  Sadness, Joy, Sorrow

  Gaston Leroux (2016). “THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA (Mystery & Horror Series): Gothic Classic Based on True Events at the Paris Opera”, p.24, e-artnow

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• I always say, 'Books beat boredom,' said Amanda wisely.

  Mo Willems

  Book, Beats, Amanda

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• No man should go through life without once experiencing healthy, even bored solitude in the wilderness, finding himself depending solely on himself and thereby learning his true and hidden strength

  Jack Kerouac

  Being Alone, Men, Healthy

  Jack Kerouac (2007). “Lonesome Traveler”, p.118, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• ...boredom was as exhausting as backbreaking labor.

  Jung Chang

  Labor, Exhausting

  Jung Chang (2008). “Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China”, p.432, Simon and Schuster

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• Your body does not eliminate poisons by knowing their names. To try to control fear or depression or boredom by calling them names is to resort to superstition of trust in curses and invocations. It is so easy to see why this does not work. Obviously, we try to know, name, and define fear in order to make it “objective,” that is, separate from “I.

  Alan Watts

  Order, Names, Knowing

  Alan Watts (1951). “The Wisdom of Insecurity”, Vintage

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• Ennui, the demon, waited at the threshold of his noiseless refuge, and drove away the stirring hopes and enlivening expectations, which form the better part of life.

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

  Blessing, Expectations, Demon

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1835). “Lodore”, p.8

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• But I know too that if we ever make a world without shadow, if the chemists and scientists and psychologists succeed in abolishing fear, pain, loneliness, death, some of us will find life so intolerable we will probably blow out our brains out of sheer boredom.

  MacDonald Harris

  Pain, Loneliness, Blow

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• Boredom is what happens to people who have no control over their minds.

  Rebecca Stead

  People, Mind, Happens

  Rebecca Stead (2012). “Liar & Spy”, p.44, Wendy Lamb Books

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• You've eased my boredom for quite a while, haven't you? -Ryuk

  Tsugumi Ohba

  Havens

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• Give me boredom. At least I know where I'm going to eat and sleep tonight.

  Neil Gaiman

  Sleep, Giving, Tonight

  Neil Gaiman (2010). “Neverwhere”, p.200, Hachette UK

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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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