Boredom Quotes - Page 29

• No man ever dared to manifest his boredom so insolently as does a Siamese tomcat when he yawns in the face of his amorously importunate wife.

  Aldous Huxley

  Cat, Men, Wife

  Aldous Huxley, Robert S. Baker, James Sexton (2000). “Complete Essays: 1920-1925”, Ivan R Dee

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• The worst thing in life is boredom. When people don't know what to do with themselves, they are very, very poor.

  Alice Herz-Sommer

  Reading, Book, Things In Life

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• The so-called transcendental meditation is nothing but a psychological tranquilizer. It is nothing—just a tranquilizer. It helps, but it is good for sleep, not for meditation. You can sleep well, a more calm sleep will be there. It is good, but it is not meditation at all. If you repeat a word constantly it creates a certain boredom, and boredom is good for sleep.

  Rajneesh

  Sleep, Meditation, Helping

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• Nature is interested in only two things--to survive and to reproduce one like itself. Anything you superimpose on that, all the cultural input, is responsible for the boredom of man.

  U.G. Krishnamurti

  Men, Two, Input

  "No Way Out : Conversations With U.G. Krishnamurti" by U.G. Krishnamurti, ch. 4: You Invent Your Reality, 2002.

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• Strange new problems are being reported in the growing generations of children whose mothers were always there, driving them around, helping them with their homework --an inability to endure pain or discipline or pursue any self-sustained goal of any sort, a devastating boredom with life.

  Betty Friedan

  Mother, Children, Pain

  "The Feminine Mystique". Book by Betty Friedan, Ch. 1 "The Problem That Has No Name", 1963.

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• Anxiety is essential to the human condition. The confrontation with anxiety can relieve us from boredom, sharpen the sensitivity and assure the presence of tension that is necessary to preserve human existence.

  Rollo May

  Worry, Anxiety, Essentials

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• Condition de l'homme: inconstance, ennui, inquie  tude. Man's condition. Inconstancy, boredom, anxiety.

  Blaise Pascal

  Men, Anxiety, Ennui

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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Boredom is usually what spurs either bad decisions or any decision at all.

  Amy Seimetz

  Decision, Spurs, Bad Decision

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Boredom is actually the most plentiful substance in the universe.

  Amber Dermont

  Substance, Plentiful, Universe

  Amber Dermont (2012). “The Starboard Sea: A Novel”, p.63, Macmillan

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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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• But too often the goal of the planners is a universal gray state of health corresponding to absence of disease rather than to a positive attribute conducive to joyful and creative living. This kind of health will not rule out and may even generate another form of ill, the boredom which is the penalty of a formula of life where nothing is left unforeseen.

  Rene Dubos

  Goal, Creative, May

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• Down with boredom. It has to go.

  Elsa Maxwell

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• Boredom is a certain sign that we are allowing our faculties to rust in idleness.

  William Ralph Inge

  Book, Reading, Rust

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• Boredom is why God invented books.

  Julie Schumacher

  Book

  Julie Schumacher (2012). “The Unbearable Book Club for Unsinkable Girls”, p.119, Delacorte Books for Young Readers

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• Although drugs are immoral and must be kept from the young, thousands of schools pressure parents to give the drug Ritalin to any lively child who may, sensibly, show signs of boredom in his classroom. Ritalin renders the child docile if not comatose. Side effects? "Stunted growth, facial tics, agitation and aggression, insomnia, appetite loss, headaches, stomach pains and seizures." Marijuana would be far less harmful.

  Gore Vidal

  Children, Pain, School

  "The Last Empire" by Gore Vidal, www.nytimes.com. November 1998.

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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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• Never in the history of boredom has anyone been more bored than I am right now.

  Jack O'Neill

  Bored, Right Now

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• Without optimism & self-belief among teachers, classrooms become wastelands of boredom & routine and schools deserts of lost opportunity.

  Andy Hargreaves

  Leadership, Teacher, Learning

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