Quotes About Boredom

Our lives are repetitious shams-every single day a simulacrum of the previous day. So for Man, he is out to pepper his daily activities with different things-he's fighting against boredom.

Uncertainty and mystery are energies of life. Don't let them scare you unduly, for they keep boredom at bay and spark creativity.

But better die than live mechanically a life that is a repetition of repetitions.

Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves?

Life is as tedious as twice-told tale, vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man.

Life is something to do when you can't get to sleep.

If you're not perfect, it doesnt mean you're a failure. Perfection is boring.

Cottard will bore you, and that alone will prevent his treatment from having any effect.

Dinner parties bore us because our imagination is absent, and reading interests us because it is keeping us company. But the people in question are the same. We would have liked to know Mme de Pompadour, who was so stalwart a patron of the arts, and we would have been as bored in her company as we are among all the modern Egerias108 at whose houses we cannot bring ourselves to pay a second call, so mediocre is their company.

We are bored at a dinner-table because our imagination is absent, and because it is bearing us company we are interested in a book.

Really, I find all that sort of thing too deadly. Listen, it's not always as boring as this at my parties. I hope that you will soon come and dine again as a compensation, with no pedigrees next time," she murmured, incapable both of appreciating the kind of charm which I could find in her house and of having sufficient humility to be content to appeal to me only as a herbarium, filled with plants of another day.

But except Cinq-Mars I have never been able to read a thing by M. de Vigny. I get so bored that the book falls from my hands.

Maybe a different job, though. Something boring, so no one asks follow-up questions about it." "Accounting?

Orwell's vision of our terrible future [...] - the world in which books are banned. What is Huxley's horrific vision? It is a world where there is no need for books to be banned, because no one can be bothered to read them'.

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 rats have been at the straw. Music? To hear it is tedious; to compose it, too taxing. And so on. Of all the afflictions, boredom is ultimately the most unmanning. Eventually, it transforms you into a great nothing who does nothing ? a cousin to sloth and a brother to melancholy.

Holidays are enticing only for the first week or so. After that, it is no longer such a novelty to rise late and have little to do.

My darling, why didn't you say so before? You know, I sometimes wonder," she added, turning to Ann, "what it would be like to have no children." "Jolly dull, " said John. "you'd be bored stiff. What would you do all day?" "Well I could read a little," said Mrs Gayford, rather vaguely, "really good books, you know, and the Times Literary Supplement. I used to be very fond of it.

Motherhood brings as much joy as ever, but it still brings boredom, exhaustion, and sorrow too. Nothing else ever will make you as happy or as sad, as proud or as tired, for nothing is quite as hard as helping a person develop his own individuality especially while you struggle to keep your own.

The world's ending, yeah. It's begun to bore her ...

Words have not just the astonishing capacity to banish boredom and create wonders. They also enable contact with the lives of others and with story worlds, arousing endless curiosity about ourselves and the places we inhabit.

Some people are still alive only because they find being dead more boring than being alive.

Filming is like a long air journey: there's so much hanging around and boredom that they keep giving you food.

Freedom is... freedom can actually be boring, you've got to realize that.

Freedom without any purpose feels a whole lot like boredom.