Humor can make a serious difference. In the workplace, at home, in all areas of life – looking for a reason to laugh is necessary. A sense of humor helps us to get through the...

Grandchildren are their grandparents’ toys.

We just philosophize, complain of boredom, or drink vodka. It’s so clear, you see, that if we’re to begin living in the present, we must first of all redeem our past and then be done...

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...

Perhaps a seemingly dull, boring person is not a person who lacks personality, but rather a person with so much personality most other things bore them.

Extreme boredom provides its own antidote.

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...

I’m bored’ is a useless thing to say. I mean, you live in a great, big, vast world that you’ve seen none percent of. Even the inside of your own mind is endless; it goes...

Some of the freckles I once loved are now closer to liver spots. But it’s still the eyes we look at, isn’t it? That’s where we found the other person, and find them still.

What was the fun of being upper-class if you had to work so hard to appear bored all the time?

We’re dying of boredom, Corporal, that’s the problem.’ [Blend] ‘If boredom was fatal there wouldn’t be a soldier alive on this whole world, Blend.’ [Picker]

He had been bored, that’s all, bored like most people. Hence he had made himself out of whole cloth a life full of complications and drama. Something must happen – and that explains most human...

Before you get bored of yourself try creativity in your life.

… an artist should paint from the heart, and not always what people expect. Predictability often leads to the dullest work, in my opinion, and we have been bored stiff long enough I think.

What if there was something essentially wrong with Claude Sylvanshine that wasn’t wrong with other people? What if he was simple ill-suited, the way some people are born without limbs or certain organs? The neurology...

Nece biti manje dosadno ako napisem da je dosadno i velika smisla ne vidim u ovom, ali oko mene je tako pusto i prazno da je nuzno da nacinim bezutjesnu konstataciju, samo konstataciju:da sam bio...

Ništa nije strašnije, kaže žena, nego kada upitaš nekoga da li te voli, a onda na njegovom licu ugledaš izraz takve dosade da bi najradije zaboravila da postojiš. Ali pitanje je već postavljeno, reči vise...

Boredom looms over the liveliest lessons, seeking to destroy.

I’m just not having a very good time and I don’t have any reason to think it’ll get anything but worse. I’m tired. I’m hurt. I’m sad. I feel used.

… millions long for immortality who don’t know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon.

My mind is like a racing engine, tearing itself to pieces because it is not connected up with the work for which it was built. Life is commonplace; the papers are sterile; audacity and romance...

If you’re bored, you’re boring.

When I have neither pleasure nor pain and have been breathing for a while the lukewarm insipid air of these so called good and tolerable days, I feel so bad in my childish soul that...

Around here there’s not much to do, I’m afraid. Actually, I’m lying. That’s not one of my fears.

Why had his mother gone to the trouble of bringing him into the world if the most exciting moment in his life was having been made lame by a bayonet?

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...

In some ways, the great danger for this commodified universe is our boredom with it … There is this sort of dialectic that you could tease out, that even in this overdeveloped late-capitalist world, that...

To drive a woman away, tell her that you are unemployed. To bore her, tell her that you are single.

I should think a dead language would be rather boring, sociallyspeaking.

Faith gives you a concept of the dignity and worth of all work, even simple work, without which work could bore you.

Ivanov: With a heavy head, with a slothful spirit, exhausted, overstretched, broken, without faith, without love, without a goal, I roam like a shadow among men and I don’t know who I am, why I’m...

There is absolutely no worse death curse than the humdrum daily existence of the living dead.

The writer’s curse is that even in solitude, no matter its duration, he never grows lonely or bored.

Between Ennui and Ecstasy unwinds our whole experience of time.

She was as sated with him as he was tired of her. Emma had rediscovered in adultery all the banality of marriage.

Pensive they sit, and roll their languid eyes.

The vacancy left by absence of worship is filled by mere killing of time and by boredom, which is directly related to inability to enjoy leisure; for one can only be bored if the spiritual...

When you feel bored, pump your adrenaline!

What kind of life can you have in a house without books?

Any country where I am not bored is a country that teaches me nothing.

Thinking minds doesn’t get bored.

Abaratians are very much about living in the moment; living life because that’s what we’ve got, we’ve got today, we’ve got now, we’ve got being alive now and we have to be awake and alive...

Jessica walked away from Aaron and Ken, flashing them both a big smile. They were both very attractive – she had dated each of them a number of times. In fact, not too long ago...

Doing nothing is the hardest torture that a person can put himself through. For he is always brought face to face with his own self, which demands that he gives account for the sun which...

Every day is important for us because it is a day ordained by God. If we are bored with life there is something wrong with our concept of God and His involvement in our daily...

Soon, what was tedious was everything. ‘Beautiful things, they’re so tedious! Paintings, they’re enough to drive you mad…How right you are, it’s so tedious, writing letters!’ In the end it was life itself that she...

Mama, I know you used to ride the bus. Riding the bus and it’s hot and bumpy and crowded and too noisy and more than anything in the world you want to get off and...

People these days can’t seem to tolerate one moment without entertainment!

Boredom comes simply from ignorance and lack of imagination.

Well, if you weren’t flirting with him”-his voice had now grown a little plaintive-“who was he, and what did you want with him anyway?””If you are so determined to bore me, I may just have...