If at any moment Time stays his hand, it is only when we are delivered over to the miseries of boredom.

You need to let the little things that would ordinarily bore you suddenly thrill you.

I can excuse everything but boredom. Boring people don’t have to stay that way.

Almost always we are bored by people to whom we ourselves are boring.

Is boredom anything less than the sense of one’s faculties slowly dying?

It is not uncommon for fighters’ camps to be gloomy. In heavy training, fighters live in dimensions of boredom others do not begin to contemplate. Fighters are supposed to. The boredom creates an impatience with...

I had the privilege of interviewing Mae Jemison, the first Black woman in space, who said she pursued a degree in physics and also became a medical doctor to keep her mind occupied.

Boldel de saclé nom de Dieu ! dit alors en b illant le bébé sur le plancher. Boldel de saclé nom de Dieu, quelle famille ! Vous avez pas un journal ou quelque chose ?...

The life of the creative man is lead, directed and controlled by boredom. Avoiding boredom is one of our most important purposes.

Dullness. Only humans could have invented it. What imaginations they had.

What we colloquially call ‘feeling bored’ is just the mind, acting out of a self-preserving reflex, ejecting information it has despaired of knowing where to place.

…I remember a rainy, depressing afternoon when she remarked ‘What a pity we can’t make love, there’s nothing else to do,’ and he agreed that it was and there wasn’t.

It is better to be happy for a moment and be burned up with beauty than to live a long time and be bored all the while.

À cette heure, elle voulut le mal, le mal que personne ne commet, le mal qui allait emplir son existence vide et la mettre enfin dans cet enfer dont elle avait toujours peur.

Because my life is empty window of nothingness punctuated by meaningless details of totally mundane non-events.

I always think boredom is to some extent the fault of the bored.

Tedium is a dangerous thing, potentially lethal.

I’m bored with it all. – Last Words

…I also believe that introversion is my greatest strength. I have such a strong inner life that I’m never bored and only occasionally lonely. No matter what mayhem is happening around me, I know I...

My correspondence has certainly the charm of variety, and the humbler are usually the more interesting. This looks like one of those unwelcome social summonses which call upon a man either to be bored or...

Nothing is as tedious as the limping days,When snowdrifts yearly cover all the ways,And ennui, sour fruit of incurious gloom,Assumes control of fate’s immortal loom

Boredom or discontent is useful to me when I acknowledge it and see clearly my assumption that there’s something else I would rather be doing. In this way boredom can act as an invitation to...

Die Belohnung für Langeweile sind Sicherheit und Geborgenheit.

There are no uninteresting things, only uninterested people.

For lack of love one does a million other things.

TV families and your own are hard to tell apart, except your isn’t interrupted every six minutes by commercials and theirs don’t get bogged down into nothingness, a state where nothing happens, no skit, no...

Some people are so boring that you are more bored when you are with them … than when you are alone.

It was hard to listen to her all the time without getting to say anything back

Nostalgia has a way of blocking the reality of the past.

Boredom is certainly not an evil to be taken lightly: it will ultimately etch lines of true despair onto a face. It makes beings with as little love for each other as humans nonetheless seek...

Do you realise that people die of boredom in London suburbs? It’s the second biggest cause of death amongs the English in general. Sheer boredom…

The only activity a cynic will find contagious is yawning, that is, with other people, at other people.

We are almost always bored by just those whom we must not find boring.

What’s this about?””Finally. Interest,” was the only response.”If this is one of your tricks…” Like the time Torin had ordered hundreds of blow-up dolls and placed them throughout the fortress, all because Paris had foolishly...

Where have I been? she wondered. Is a life that can now be considered an absence a life?For some time things had been going badly for her. She could cite nothing in particular as a...

She pauses several treads from the bottom, listening, waiting; she is again possessed (it seems to be getting worse) by a dream-like feeling, as if she is standing in the wings, about to go onstage...

Considering Adrian had once gotten bored while reading while reading a particularly long menu, I had a hard time imagining he’d read the Hugo book in any language.

What a difference! Under the esthetic sky, everything is buoyant, beautiful, transient! when ethics arrives on the scene, everything becomes harsh, angular and infinitely boring

I’ve matured. I have a much higher tolerance for boredom.

You don’t usually think of boredom as something similar to pain. That’s because you’ve only been exposed to it in relatively small doses. You don’t know its true colour. The difference between the boredom you...

To grow interested in any piece of information, we need somewhere to ‘put’ it, which means some way of connecting it to an issue we already now how to care about.

We all want to break our orbits, float like a satellite gone wild in space, run the risk of disintegration. We all want to take our lives in our own hands and hurl them out...

To me, at least in retrospect, the really interesting question is why dullness proves to be such a powerful impediment to attention. Why we recoil from the dull. Maybe it’s because dullness is intrinsically painful;...

Boredom was at the root of Lazare’s unhappiness, an oppressive, unremitting boredom, exuding from everything like the muddy water of a poisoned spring. He was bored with leisure, with work, with himself even more than...

Good digestions, the gray monotony of provincial life, and the boredom—ah the soul-destroying boredom—of long days of mild content.

Boredom comes from a boring mind.

Didn’t you tell me smoking ruined your stamina as a boxer? …Ruined is a strong word, I’d say….It helps fight boredom. It gives you more to do and less time to do it in.

A lot of impulsive mistakes are made by people who simply aren’t willing to stay bored a little longer.

Those diversions sparked her life with momentary excitement. Without them, Charis felt she would be driven mad by the unrelenting sameness of life in the palace. Now and again she imagined that she would like...

The days hardened with cold and boredom like last year’s loaves of bread. One began to cut them with blunt knives without appetite, with a lazy indifference.