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...

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.