Quotes of: Boredom Keyword

Running through things because you are familiar with them, breeds routine and this is the seed of boredom.

James Galway

Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time; serenity, that nothing is.

Thomas Szasz

I wanted to get that sense of peace and even boredom that comes with long familiarity.

Debbie Reynolds

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

Arthur Schopenhauer

I did nine episodes of 'John Doe.' I died of boredom.

William Forsythe

Much is forgiven anyone who relieves the desperate boredom of the working press.

William Weld

He who seeks rest finds boredom. He who seeks work finds rest.

Dylan Thomas

I always think boredom is to some extent the fault of the bored.

Cut to the Quick

It is the unknown that excites the ardor of scholars, who, in the known alone, would shrivel up with boredom.

Wallace Stevens

Boredom can be a lethal thing on a small island.

Island of the Sequined Love Nun

My despair is less despair than boredom and loneliness.

Jarhead

I’ve matured. I have a much higher tolerance for boredom.

The Leftovers

If I planned everything out in advance, I'd expire of boredom.

Peter Straub

Idleness allows you to turn a situation from boredom to pleasure.

Tom Hodgkinson

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

Walter Benjamin

I fear the boredom that comes with not learning and not taking chances.

Robert Fulghum

The Postmodernists' tyranny wears people down by boredom and semi-literate prose.

Christopher Hitchens

Boredom is your mind and body’s way of telling you you’re not living up to your potential.

Hal Sparks

Perhaps the world's second worst crime is boredom. The first is being a bore.

Jean Baudrillard

Beware of speaking too much, for it increases mistakes and engenders boredom.

Hazrat Ali Ibn Abu-Talib A.S

In small towns, news travels at the speed of boredom.

Carlos Ruiz Zafon