Sitting to think of what to write will only set your ass on fire, give you headache, twist your face to look stupid, instead, walk around with a blank mind and something from somewhere will...

As a subconscious attempt to add meaning or purpose to their life: The unemployed pray for a job; the retired pray for grandchildren.

Boredom is the dream bird that hatches the egg of experience. A rustling in the leaves drives him away.

Never stand in the way of letting God use people’s actions, in order to solve a greater issue in the world.

What keeps all living things busy and in motion is the striving to exist. But when existence is secured, they do not know what to do: that is why the second thing that sets them...

Actually, I jade very quickly. Once is usually enough. Either once only, or every day. If you do something once it’s exciting, and if you do it every day it’s exciting. But if you do...

To the non-combatants and those on the periphery of action, the war meant only boredom or occasional excitement, but to those who entered the meat grinder itself the war was a netherworld of horror from...

Well, I’m ready for a long patch of boredom.

I am stuck in traffic in a taxicabwhich is typicaland not just of modern life

Boredom slays more of existence than war.

Give me boredom. At least I know where I’m going to eat and sleep tonight.

A guilty conscience pushed me to try harder—which I did for what seemed like a tremendous amount of wasted time, staring bug-eyed at uncooperative pencils. What was missing? The answer seemed obvious—intense emotional incentive. But...

Anyhow, I had found something out about an unknown privation, and I realized how a general love or craving, before it is explicit or before it sees its object, manifests itself as boredom or some...

She was surprised at how deflating his presence was.

But the answer isn’t just to intimidate people into consuming more ‘serious’ news; it is to push so-called serious outlets into learning to present important information in ways that can properly engage audiences. It is...

Deceit dispels the boredom of the Absolute.

I’ve been able to sleep with my eyes open ever since I started watching baseball.

Never underestimate the determination of a kid who is time-rich and cash-poor.

Boredom is that awful state of inaction when the very medicine ― that is, activity ― which could solve it, is seen as odious.Archery? It is too cold, and besides, the butts need re-covering; the...

Weeks passed like boats waiting to sail into the starless dawn, we were full of aimless endless darkness.

Violence is spiritual junk food, and boredom is spiritual anorexia.

… he preferred being stimulated to being bored.

Everyone is alone. Everyone is empty. People no longer have need of others. You can always find a spare for any talent. Any relationship can be replaced. I had gotten bored of a world like...

No sapient could sustain happiness all of the time, just as no one could live permanently within anger, or boredom, or grief.

Boredom, that traitorous devil that posseses us to do things sometimes useless, and often stupid.

I find her anecdotes more efficacious than sheep-counting, rain on a tin roof, or alanol tablets…. you will find me and Morpheus, off in a corner, necking.

When people are bored, it is primarily with their own selves that they are bored.

I wanted to reject it all because I was sick of being perfect. I was so bored with normality and dreams of poster boys and tabloid covers.

When we are bored it is always with ourselves we are bored.

Worry is like a rocking chair-it keeps you busy but gets you nowhere.

The garden is an unemployed township-based man’s cubicle.

This process of assimilation, which takes place in depth, requires a state of relaxation that is becoming rarer and rarer. If sleep is the apogee of physical relaxation, boredom is the apogee of mental relaxation....

Now, if it were up to me, I’d parcel out. So that, say, at thirty-five we just learned how to go on the potty. Imagine the feeling of accomplishment! They’d have office parties. “Did you...

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.