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...

Writing is a defence against boredom, but it’s also a cure for melancholy.

This is the kind of paradox, I think, of what it is to be a halfway intelligent American right now, and probably also a Western European, is that there are things we know are right,...

Desire is always followed by boredom. And only love can defeat boredom. Love with a capital L; we all dream of it.

Boredom is peace misunderstood.

Some people in orthodox churches in Africa take poverty as a path that leads to heaven, making christianity look unattractive.

When you are bored of the plains, the secret passages to the mountains suddenly appear out of nowhere before you!

Sometimes I think evil is a tangible thing – with wave lengths, just as sound and light have.

If you go looking for love you won’t find it because love is never lost; only we are lost.

Boredom was my bedmate and it was hogging the sheets.

There are 6 reasons that a person does anything: Love, faith, greed, boredom, fear… revenge.

Employment was better than idleness for men, because it kept the enemy guessing.

I once inscribed the word “Ennui” backwards on my forehead, and I was so bored that I stared at it in the mirror for hours. And at the end of that time, I felt like...

I wore a groove in the kitchen floor with endless trips to the fridge, hoping against hope that I had somehow missed a plateful of cold sausages on the previous 4,000 excursions. Then, for no...

Anthropocentrism gave rise to boredom, and when anthropomorphism was replaced by technocentrism, boredom became even more profound.

It’s the way a man chooses to limit himself that determines his character. A man without habits, consistency, redundancy – and hence boredom – is not human. He’s insane.

Boredom is the inner conflict we suffer when we lose desire, when we lack a lacking.

I truly believe that the boredom of illness is parlous to one’s health

But the boredom of Frau Spatz had by now reached that pitch where it distorts the countenance of man, makes the eyes protrude from the head, and lends the features a corpselike and terrifying aspect....

Be bold, don’t be boring.

Imagination is absolutely critical to the quality of our lives. Our imagination enables us to leave our routine everyday existence by fantasizing about travel, food, sex, falling in love, or having the last word—all the...

Boredom is your mind and body’s way of telling you you’re not living up to your potential.

You have to be the right type for calm waters. For some, dead calm is inner peace, for others it’s the doldrums.

But her life was as cold as an attic facing north; and boredom, like a silent spider, was weaving its web in the shadows, in every corner of her heart.

Boredom is a powerful reason, and the prospect of fun is a powerful draw – especially when you are young.

The rich fop Francis of Assisi was bored all his life―until he fell in love with Christ and gave all his stuff away and became the troubadour of Lady Poverty.

What do you expect? Think we were sent into the world to have a soft time and what is it? Float on flowery beds of ease? Think Man was just made to be happy?- Why...

Boredom is a symptom of a conditioned and closed mind. If you are bored, you’re doing yourself a tremendous disservice. Open your mind, break-free from your conditioned routine, and reignite the flames of excitement and...

The man who begins to go to bed forty minutes before he opens his bedroom door is bored; that is to say, he is not living.

His hatred for all was so intense that it should extinguish the very love from which it was conceived. And thus, he ceased to feel. There was nothing further in which to believe that made...