Boredom Quotes - Page 28

• A great affliction of all Philistines is that idealities afford them no entertainment, but to escape from boredom they are always in need of realities.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Reality, Needs, Affliction

  "Aphorisms on the Wisdom of Life". Book by Arthur Schopenhauer, trans. by E. Payne, Vol. 1, p. 345, 1974.

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• I am fairly tired--bored beyond endurance--by the world we live in, and its ideals, and am ready to say so, not violently, but kindly, as one rubs salt into the back of a flogged sailor as though one loved him.

  Henry Adams

  Tired, Endurance, World

  Henry Adams, Ernest Samuels (1992). “Henry Adams, Selected Letters”, p.276, Harvard University Press

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• Ambition will take you And ride you too far and Conservatism bring you to boredom once more Sit down by the river And watch the stream flow Recall all the dreams That you once used to know The things you've forgotten That took you away To pastures not greener but meaner.

  Van Morrison

  Dream, Ambition, Rivers

  Song: I'm Tired Joey Boy

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• Beneath a mask of selfish tranquility nothing exists except bitterness and boredom.

  Cyril Connolly

  Selfish, Bitterness, Tranquility

  "The Unquiet Grave". Book by Cyril Connolly, 1944.

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• Back at the Chateau Windsor there was a rat-like scratching at the door of my room. Vinod, the youngest servant, came in with a soda water. He placed it next to the bag of toffees. Then he watched me read. I was used to being observed reading. Sometimes the room would fill like a railway station at rush hour and I would be expected to cure widespread boredom

  Tahir Shah

  Reading, Doors, Water

  FaceBook post by Tahir Shah from Apr 17, 2013

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• Boredom reigns on all levels. The rain is a welcome change. I have seen the pond swell and the creek surge. I press my palm against the glass, imagining the drops on my skin, imagining where they started out, where they will go, feeling them like a river, rushing, combining, becoming something greater than how they started out.

  Mary E. Pearson

  Rain, Glasses, Rivers

  Mary E. Pearson (2009). “The Adoration of Jenna Fox”, p.45, Macmillan

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• Boredom always precedes a period of great creativity.

  Robert M. Pirsig

  Creativity, Periods

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• It seems to me that all of the evil in life comes from idleness, boredom, and psychic emptiness, but all of that is inevitable when you become accustomed to living at others' expense.

  Anton Chekhov

  Psychics, Evil, Emptiness

  "My Life". Book by Anton Chekhov, 1896.

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• Boredom is a disease, too.

  Tommy Chong

  Disease

  "Cheech & Chong Light Up 'The Factor'". "The O'Reilly Factor" with Bill O'Reilly, www.foxnews.com. November 18, 2009.

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• At any age we must cherish illusions, consolatory or merely pleasant; in youth, they are omnipresent; in old age we must search for them, or even invent them. But with all that, boredom is their natural and inevitable accompaniment.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Age, Youth, Cherish

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• The world is rather shot to pieces [end of World War II - 1945], but the spectators climb out of their caves and pretend to have again become normal and customary humans who ask each other's pardon instead of eating one another or sucking each other's blood. The entertaining folly of war evaporates, distinguished boredom sits down again on the dignified old overstuffed chairs.. .May I report about myself that I have had a truly grotesque time, brim-full with work, Nazi persecutions, bombs, hunger, and again and again work - in spite of everything [a. o. using his bed sheets as canvas for the new paintings].

  Max Beckmann

  War, Blood, Bombs

  "Max Beckmann". Book by Stephan Lackner, 1983.

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• Advertising doesn't cause addictions. But it does create a climate of denial and it contributes mightily to a belief in the quick fix, instant gratification, the dreamworld, and escape from all pain and boredom. All of this is part of what addicts believe and what we hope for when we reach for our particular substance.... Addiction begins with the hope that something "out there" can instantly fill up the emptiness inside. Advertising is all about this false hope.

  Jean Kilbourne

  Pain, Believe, Addiction

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• London is a huge, stony desert: even boredom feels endless there.

  Sándor Márai

  Desert, London, Endless

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• Happiness is fugitive; dissatisfaction and boredom are real.

  Jack Vance

  Real, Fugitive, Dissatisfaction

  "Emphyrio" by Jack Vance, (Chapter 5), 1969.

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• Who has that absolute trust, to fling yourself into mortality, to let it do with you as it will, with all the permutations and possibilities of as it will, be it horror or ecstasy or boredom?

  Frederick Lenz

  Horror, Possibility, Mortality

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• I've made a career over the last seventeen years of mostly playing men in uniform, especially cops. The one thing for an actor that is completely death is if you're bored, because that boredom will show in your work. So there was an inherent challenge in trying to keep it fresh, because it's something that I'm familiar with, but the real draw for me was at long last to work with Halle. She and I had come close to working on two other films together prior to this one that unfortunately had fallen apart for various reasons.

  Benjamin Bratt

  Real, Men, Years

  Interview with Jeff Otto, www.ign.com. July 20, 2004.

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• My chronic feelings of emptiness and boredom came from the fact that I was living a life based on my incapacities, which were numerous.

  Susanna Kaysen

  Feelings, Facts, Emptiness

  Susanna Kaysen (2013). “Girl, Interrupted”, p.154, Vintage

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• Deep attention, the cognitive style traditionally associated with the humanities, is characterized by concentrating on a single object for long periods (say, a novel by Dickens), ignoring outside stimuli while so engaged, preferring a single information stream, and having a high tolerance for long focus times. Hyper attention is characterized by switching focus rapidly among different tasks, preferring multiple information streams, seeking a high level of stimulation, and having a low tolerance for boredom.

  N. Katherine Hayles

  Long, Focus, Tolerance

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• People who have escaped from poverty are like old soldiers. In later years they recount the little, amusing incidents that happened infrequently, and conveniently forget the long, unrelieved stretches of misery and boredom.

  Elsa Maxwell

  Years, Long, People

  Elsa Maxwell (1954). “R.S.V.P.: Elsa Maxwell's Own Story”

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• boredom has a tendency to bring out the worst in people's faces.

  Rona Jaffe

  People, Faces, Tendencies

  Rona Jaffe (2005). “The Best of Everything”, p.20, Penguin

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• My boredom threshold is low at the best of times but I have spent more time being slowly and excruciatingly bored by children than any other section of the human race.

  Jill Tweedie

  Change, Time, Children

  Jill Tweedie (1980). “It's only me: pieces from a column”, Robson Books Limited

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• Boredom is the most horrible of wolves.

  Jean Giono

  Horrible

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• Papa's love did indeed have wondrous properties: it not only compensated for her boredom and anxiety, it was the cause of her boredom and anxiety.

  Vivian Gornick

  Anxiety, Papa, Causes

  Vivian Gornick (2005). “Fierce Attachments: A Memoir”, p.23, Macmillan

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• What we feel at prayer is God's business, not ours, and we must strive to be totally abandoned to the presence of 'consolation' or of boredom when we pray. A clear understanding that the value of our prayer does not depend upon how we feel is extremely important if we are to persevere in prayer. So many people feel that if their prayer is distracted it cannot be pleasing to God, and are therefore led to abandon their efforts precisely when fidelity is of the most importance.

  Sheila Cassidy

  Prayer, People, Effort

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• boredom was born on a day of uniformity.

  Muriel Barbery

  Born, Uniformity

  "The Elegance of the Hedgehog". Book by Muriel Barbery, August 31, 2006.

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