… an artist should paint from the heart, and not always what people expect. Predictability often leads to the dullest work, in my opinion, and we have been bored stiff long enough I think.

What if there was something essentially wrong with Claude Sylvanshine that wasn’t wrong with other people? What if he was simple ill-suited, the way some people are born without limbs or certain organs? The neurology...

Why had his mother gone to the trouble of bringing him into the world if the most exciting moment in his life was having been made lame by a bayonet?

But I know too that if we ever make a world without shadow, if the chemists and scientists and psychologists succeed in abolishing fear, pain, loneliness, death, some of us will find life so intolerable...

In some ways, the great danger for this commodified universe is our boredom with it … There is this sort of dialectic that you could tease out, that even in this overdeveloped late-capitalist world, that...

To drive a woman away, tell her that you are unemployed. To bore her, tell her that you are single.

I should think a dead language would be rather boring, sociallyspeaking.

Faith gives you a concept of the dignity and worth of all work, even simple work, without which work could bore you.

My mind is like a racing engine, tearing itself to pieces because it is not connected up with the work for which it was built. Life is commonplace; the papers are sterile; audacity and romance...

If you’re bored, you’re boring.

When I have neither pleasure nor pain and have been breathing for a while the lukewarm insipid air of these so called good and tolerable days, I feel so bad in my childish soul that...

Around here there’s not much to do, I’m afraid. Actually, I’m lying. That’s not one of my fears.

Between Ennui and Ecstasy unwinds our whole experience of time.

She was as sated with him as he was tired of her. Emma had rediscovered in adultery all the banality of marriage.

Pensive they sit, and roll their languid eyes.

The vacancy left by absence of worship is filled by mere killing of time and by boredom, which is directly related to inability to enjoy leisure; for one can only be bored if the spiritual...

When you feel bored, pump your adrenaline!

What kind of life can you have in a house without books?

Ivanov: With a heavy head, with a slothful spirit, exhausted, overstretched, broken, without faith, without love, without a goal, I roam like a shadow among men and I don’t know who I am, why I’m...

There is absolutely no worse death curse than the humdrum daily existence of the living dead.

The writer’s curse is that even in solitude, no matter its duration, he never grows lonely or bored.

Doing nothing is the hardest torture that a person can put himself through. For he is always brought face to face with his own self, which demands that he gives account for the sun which...

Every day is important for us because it is a day ordained by God. If we are bored with life there is something wrong with our concept of God and His involvement in our daily...

Soon, what was tedious was everything. ‘Beautiful things, they’re so tedious! Paintings, they’re enough to drive you mad…How right you are, it’s so tedious, writing letters!’ In the end it was life itself that she...

Mama, I know you used to ride the bus. Riding the bus and it’s hot and bumpy and crowded and too noisy and more than anything in the world you want to get off and...

People these days can’t seem to tolerate one moment without entertainment!

Boredom comes simply from ignorance and lack of imagination.

Any country where I am not bored is a country that teaches me nothing.

Thinking minds doesn’t get bored.

Abaratians are very much about living in the moment; living life because that’s what we’ve got, we’ve got today, we’ve got now, we’ve got being alive now and we have to be awake and alive...

Jessica walked away from Aaron and Ken, flashing them both a big smile. They were both very attractive – she had dated each of them a number of times. In fact, not too long ago...

Kumiko and I would visit their home and have dinner with them twice a month with mechanical regularity. This was a truly loathsome experience, situated at the precise midpoint between a meaningless mortification of the...

A utopia cannot, by definition, include boredom, but the ‘utopia’ we are living in is boring.

I am near fourteen and have never yet seen a hanging. My life is barren.

The boring thing about being interesting is that you bore boring people.

Envy of other people shows how they are unhappy. Their continual attention to others behavior shows how they are boring.

When a man plays with your heart it is for one of two reasons: He knows he can or he is undecided.

Well, if you weren’t flirting with him”-his voice had now grown a little plaintive-“who was he, and what did you want with him anyway?””If you are so determined to bore me, I may just have...

Reality can be very boring.

At the same time, eroticism in the home requires active engagement and willful intent. It is an ongoing resistance to the message that marriage is serious, more work than play; and that passion is for...

The Beatles saved the world from boredom.

Boring is the right thought at the wrong time.

He was bored now when Emma suddenly began to sob on his breast; and his heart, like the people who can only stand a certain amount of music, became drowsy through indifference to the vibrations...

Boredom is desire seeking desire.

Katerina Lvovna lived a boring life in the rich house of her father-in-law during the five years of marriage to her unaffectionate husband; but, as often happens, no one paid the slightest attention to this...

Feeling bored is a childish attitude.You wouldn’t feel so if you don’t relyon somebody to change your feeling.

I went on writing reviews for the newspaper, and critical articles crying out for a different approach to culture, as even the most inattentive reader could hardly fail to notice if he scratched the surface...

Going to see plays isn’t what you people should do. Try looking at yourselves a little more often and see what gray lives you all lead. How much of what you say is unnecessary.

The chief product of an automated society is a widespread and deepening sense of boredom.

Just as, at least in one religion, accidia is the first of the cardinal sins, so bordom, and particularly the incredible circumstance of waking up bored, was the only vice Bond utterly condemned.