My despair is less despair than boredom and loneliness.

Life wore a man out, wore a man thin.Tomorrow would be a better day.

I don’t believe in an afterlife, so I don’t have to spend my whole life fearing hell, or fearing heaven even more. For whatever the tortures of hell, I think the boredom of heaven would...

And while you and the rest of your kind are battling together—year after year—for this special privilege of being ‘bored to death,’ the ‘real girl’ that you’re asking about, the marvelous girl, the girl with...

Boredom forces you to ring people you haven’t seen for eighteen years and halfway through the conversation you remember why you left it so long. Boredom means you start to read not only mail-order catalogues...

For Heidegger, boredom is a privileged fundamental mood because it leads us directly into the very problem complex of being and time.

Boredom is your soul’s way of telling you to step up and do what you were born to.

You know a man is interesting when you forget to notice how expensive — or cheap — his clothes are.

They’re a redefinition of boredom… the most important thing you need to know about an awards show is where is the nearest smoking opportunity.

Our labour preserves us from three great evils — weariness, vice, and want.

Borkin: Ladies and gentlemen, why are you so glum? Sitting there like a jury after it’s been sworn in! … Let’s think up something. What would you like? Forfeits, tug of war, catch, dancing, fireworks?

Boredom is therefore a vital problem for the moralist, since at least half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it.

Before, for me, peace could have been synonymous with boredom.

He wondered why he wasn’t as in love with her as he was with…Hector had only shared enjoyment with (her)…he shared everything, enjoyment and sorrow…but for some time now they’d shared too much frustration, boredom...

Isn’t ‘not to be bored’ one of the principal goals of life?

If we allow our “high creativity” to remain alive, we will never be bored. We can pray, standing in line at the super market. Or we can be lost in awe at all the people...

I’ve had enough adventures,” said Noxon, “to know that boredom is the closest thing to happiness. Boredom means that there’s nothing wrong. You’re not hungry, you’re not in pain. Nobody’s making any demands on you....

Boredom is for the selfish.

Las personas con un alto nivel de tolerancia al aburrimiento tienen tiempo de sobra para pensar.

It is hard not to see into the future, faced with today’s blind architecture – a thousand times more stupid and more revolting than that of other ages. How bored we shall be inside!

Life is just so interesting and complicated and beautiful. Every day, every interaction is different. There’s so much floating around that I would find it really hard to get bored. I’m interested in creating in...

The stirring incidents of the last few months had spoiled her; the monotony of the last few weeks had bored her; and now she had just rode out in quest of adventures.

Then he looked up, despite all best prior intentions. In four minutes, it would be another hour; a half hour after that was the ten-minute break. Lane Dean imagined himself running around on the break,...

Of course boredom may lead you to anything. It is boredom sets one sticking golden pins into people, but all that would not matter. What is bad (this is my comment again) is that I...

It is only a step from boredom to disillusionment, which leads naturally to self-pity, which in turn ends in chaos.

Wouldn’t it help you to realize that you really do live in an epic if your life had a soundtrack?

Only boring people are bored in relationships.

Boredom is merely a symptom of an apathetic soul.

Philip Yancey sees our blasé attitude toward the faithfulness of God in the waitstaff At Yellowstone. Even when they are finished their chores, they don’t look up and marvel at the geiser going off. After...

and now i am back in the grey world where it tastes like plastic, the monotony is buzzing through my jaws and the boredom is pulling my hair.

Our lives are led, and our decisions made, within a network of needs and wants, some natural, some arising from the acts of others, some aggravated by the acts of the state. We are all...

I really think I write about everyday life. I don’t think I’m quite as odd as others say I am. Life is intrinsically, well, boring and dangerous at the same time. At any given moment...

I became bored – that was all. Boredom, which is another name and a frequent disguise for vitality, became the unconscious motive of all my acts.

I took ten days off and by 11 o’clock on the first morning I had drunk fourteen cups of coffee, read all the newspapers and the Guardian and then… and then what? By lunchtime I...

Animals can be understimulated, but hardly bored.

Do you not hear the constant victory,in the human footraceof time, slow as fire,sure, and thick and Herculeanaccumulating its volume and adding its sad fiber?

My favorite cure for boredom is sleep. It’s very easy to get to sleep when bored and very hard to get bored after a long rest.

Darling, I’m so unutterably bored as to be a hazard

Martin in particular concluded that man was born to live either in the convulsions of misery, or in the lethargy of boredom.

Never believe a friend who offered you his friendship just because he was getting bored.

Boredom is essentially a thwarted desire for events, not necessarily pleasant ones, but just occurrences such as will enable the victim of ennui to know one day from another. The opposite of boredom, in a...

The complete recipe for imagination is absolute boredom.

What an odd creature you are, Bernard, with your constant fear of death! Do you never have a feeling, as I do, of utter futility? No? Doesn’t it occur to you that the sort of...

His eagerness had turned into a routine; he embraced her at the same time every day. It was a habit like any other, a favourite pudding after the monotony of dinner.

I am terrified of being bored.

Don’t be afraid to let yourself get bored because some of the most amazing things are created through boredom.

She refused to be bored chiefly because she wasn’t boring.

Boredom is restlessness of the soul. It is an internal message reminding you that you’re better than the stagnancy you’ve settled for.

Doing anything when you’re bored is very very boring. Anyway, doing nothing is the point of being bored. The pleasure of being bored is mooning about and doing nothing.

Court life for a queen of France at that time was, however, stultifyingly routine. Eleanor found that she was expected to be no more than a decorative asset to her husband, the mother of his...