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...

The glance embroiders in joy, knits in pain, and sews in boredom.When indifferent, the eye takes stills, when interested, movies.Laughter is regional: a smile extends over the whole face.

Boredom is the fear of self.

The most total opposite of pleasure is not pain but boredom, for we are willing to risk pain to make a boring life interesting.

Only boring people get bored.

In the years since, I’ve discovered there’s a lot to be said for boredom.

You’ve already said you were going to kill me,” Alex said, “but I didn’t think that meant you were going to bore me to death.

I think I must have invented you on one of those days I was really bored.

Life is for living and working at. If you find anything or anybody a bore, the fault is in yourself.

Patience is the ability to enjoy the calm of boredom.

I think that the word bored does not get the attention it deserves. We speak of all sorts of terrible things that happen to people, but we rarely speak about one of the most terrible...

Boredom is the price one pays for not enjoying everything.

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.