Boredom can be a lethal thing on a small island.

And for all the richest and most successful merchants life inevitably became rather dull and niggly, and they began to imagine that this was therefore the fault of the worlds they’d settled on.

Boredom is actually a sign of ambition. So act on it.

Our age has become so mechanical that this has also affected our recreation. People have gotten used to sitting down and watching a movie, a ball game, a television set. It may be good once...

Life is like a story, when all the resolution is resolved, you heave a sigh of relief.

When hit by boredom, let yourself be crushed by it; submerge, hit bottom. In general, with things unpleasant, the rule is: The sooner you hit bottom, the faster you surface. The idea here is to...

I abhor the idea of a perfect world. It would bore me to tears.

Boredom is the very opposite of beauty and truth. Life has been sacrificed to profit, and the result is boredom on a massive scale.

Life swings like a pendulum backward and forward between pain and boredom.

There are six reasons anyone does anything: Love. Faith. Greed. Boredom. Fear…” he said, ticking them off on his fingers; but he lingered on the last, drawing a deep breath before he said, “Revenge.

Lazy people live lonely lives.

Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves?

Eternal Boredom Of The Strifeless Mind

One mood can be replaced by another, but it is impossible to leave attunement altogether. However, profound boredom brings us as close to a state of un-attunement as we can come.

What is boredom? Endless repetitions, like, for example, Navidson’s corridors and rooms, which are consistently devoid of any Myst-like discoveries thus causing us to lose interest. What then makes anything exciting? Or better yet: what...

The absence of the will to live is, alas, not sufficient to make one want to die.

Boredom is the conviction that you can’t change … the shriek of unused capacities.

HUMAN BEINGS MAKE LIFE SO INTERESTING. DO YOU KNOW, THAT IN A UNIVERSE SO FULL OF WONDERS, THEY HAVE MANAGED TO INVENT BOREDOM. (Death)

People fear nothing as much as boredom and they will do unimaginable things to make it go away.

Alcohol makes other people less tedious, and food less bland, and can help provide what the Greeks called entheos, or the slight buzz of inspiration when reading or writing. The only worthwhile miracle in the...

Sometimes what we lack is the thrill of anticipation or the delay of gratification. We enjoy things far more when we’ve really desired them but had to wait for them. The real value is found...

One source of frustration in the workplace is the frequent mismatch between what people must do and whatpeople can do. When what they must do exceeds their capabilities, the result is anxiety. When what they...

My greatest discovery has been my love of boredom and to get fun out of it.

Many books are longer than they seem. They have indeed no end. The boredom that they cause is truly absolute and infinite.

Everything smaller than Heaven bores us because only Heaven is bigger than our hearts.

Something more terrible than a hell where one suffers may be imagined, and that is a hell where one is bored.

Boredom is vastly underrated. Boredom means that nothing is trying to kill you every day.

It’s so difficult to breathe ,to live in such a boring society

Something doing every minute’ may be a gesture of despair–or the height of a battle against boredom.

We want not only life but an intense awareness of being alive. The large tendency of our mechanical and standardized civilization is to blunt that awareness by surrounding us with ideas and forms that require...

A bouquet yellow like remorse Hurts my view The cage The wheel The vile ennui of all mankind And no one no one to break my chains!(“Outcries”)

Boredom is a fearsome prospect. There’s a limit to the number of cars and microwaves you can buy. What do you do then?

The problem with making a virtual world of oneself is akin to the problem with projecting ourselves onto a cyberworld: there’s no end of virtual spaces in which to seek stimulation, but their very endlessness,...

Almost everybody gets tired and bored by one lackadaisical topic. If you hit them with something delicious, like a sexy adventure, then the world will want to hear you speak, mind you! Don’t become a...

When we hold back out of laziness, that is when we tie ourselves into knots of boredom.

experiences” which you can rack up on your list of things to do before you die. That’s not really living: that is slavery with the occasional circus thrown in.

If life — the craving for which is the very essence of our being — were possessed of any positive intrinsic value, there would be no such thing as boredom at all: mere existence would...

Moderation is the key to old age and the doorway to boredom

See, my aim is not to survivebut to be thrown to the wolfs with adrenaline still pumping in my veins and hear the gods laughing saying ”that was one hell of a youth” and everything...

She, who was bored almost to agony, and who had nothing at all to do, she had not time to think even, seriously, of anything. Time being, after all, only the current of the soul...

Everyone is a bore to someone. That is unimportant. The thing to avoid is being a bore to oneself.

Poems should be like pins which prick the skin of boredom and leave a glow equal in its pride to the gate of the sadist who stuck the pin and walked away

So life isn’t exciting?” continued Gary. “Great. Give me boredom. At least I know where I’m going to eat and sleep tonight. I’ll still have a job on Monday. Yeah?” He turned and looked at...

While they were dancing, the buoyancy that the champagne had given her left her all at once, and she slumped and felt suddenly tired and miserable about all the things that Denys should have said...

After much effort to live up to a glorious standard there came fatigue, wan hope, and boredom. I experienced extreme boredom. I saw others experiencing it too, many denying, by the way, that any such...

The proliferation of creative power can transform the world for all of its inhabitants.

Bosan adalah ibu dari segala sesuatu yang bergerak.. Dan terpujilah mereka-mereka yang bergerak.

Very often the test of one’s allegiance to a cause or to a people is precisely the willingness to stay the course when things are boring, to run the risk of repeating an old argument...

Did perpetual happiness in the Garden of Eden maybe get so boring that eating the apple was justified?

Way far back in the beginning of the world was the whirlwind warning that we could all be blown away like chips and cry- Men with tired eyes realize it now, and wait to deform...