Quotes About Boredom

Grasp your opportunities, no matter how poor your health; nothing is worse for your health than boredom.

Quase todos os homens vivem inconscientemente no tédio. O tédio é o fundo da vida, foi o tédio que inventou os jogos, as distracções, os romances e o amor.

Only by himself could he feel himself, only by himself he could tell himself 'I am me'. Before others, among the busy and distracted crowd, he didn't feel himself. Almost every man lives subconsciously in boredom. Boredom is the pit of life, it was boredom that invented games, distractions, romances and love.

Only by himself could he feel himself, only by himself he could tell himself 'I am me' Before others, among the busy and distracted crowd, he didn't feel himself. Almost every man lives subconsciously in boredom. Boredom is the pit of life, it was boredom what invented games, distractions, romances and love.

Everything we experience—joy or pain, interest or boredom—is represented in the mind as information. If we are able to control this information, we can decide what our lives will be like.

It is impossible for partners not to grow bored unless they work to discover new challenges in each other's company, and learn appropriate skills for enriching the relationship. Initially

Everything we experience—joy or pain, interest or boredom—is represented in the mind as information. If we are able to control this information, we can decide what our lives will be like. The

But how enjoyable an activity is depends ultimately on its complexity. The small automatic games woven into the fabric of everyday life help reduce boredom, but add little to the positive quality of experience. For that one needs to face more demanding challenges, and use higher-level skills.

It is probably true that humans, like the majority of mammalian species, are not monogamous by nature. It is impossible for partners not to grow bored unless they work to discover new challenges in each other's company, and learn appropriate skills for enriching the relationship. Initially physical challenges alone are enough to sustain flow, but unless romance and genuine care also develop, the relationship will grow stale.

When there are too many demands, options, challenges, we become anxious; when too few, we get bored.

the worst moods are reported when one is alone and there is nothing that needs to be done.

Enjoyment appears at the boundary between boredom and anxiety, when the challenges are just balanced with the person's capacity to act.

If human misery and efficient boredom could be beautiful, there would have been a kind of beauty in the endlessly replicated, hot-desking, rack-mounted workers and their swiftly exchangeable work stations. Lit up by the dead light of our monitors we would constantly scratch at our keyboards—it could have been sadly romantic, if it hadn't been for the sirens. Hanging

What of it? If I die, I die. It will be no great loss to the world, and I am thoroughly bored with life. I am like a man yawning at a ball; the only reason he does not go home to bed is that his carriage has not arrived yet.

If you wait on luck to turn up, life becomes very boring.

The problem was I didn't want just anyone's company. I wanted the company of funny, smart, like-minded people. That's when I realized something about myself: I would rather be lonely than bored.

I know many friends who loved their sororities. I wasn't traumatized. I was just bored.

No, that is boring. If people want to see medical stuff they should watch ER.

I looked out the window for other passengers in love with their drivers, but we were well disguised, we pretended boredom and prayed for traffic.

The boy was growing bored and this was a form of growing up.

Exhausted, bored, and disgusted by nannies, she engaged a governess who would begin my education and at the same time keep an eye on the nursery maid who was to be in charge of Hubert's more menial four-year-old necessities.

Author A fool who, not content with having bored those who have lived with him, insists on tormenting generations to come.

The beat generation is a coffeehouse full of people expectantly looking at their watches waiting for the beat generation to come on. *1958

One should only see a psychiatrist out of boredom.