Quotes About Boredom

En ook van jullie, jonge schonen, Die huiswaarts rijdt des avonds laat In koetsjes die hun driestheid tonen In onze Peterburgse straat, Wou mijn Jevgeni niets meer horen. Het feesten had hij afgezworen, Hij sloot zich op in huis, hij nam Verveeld een pen en was van plan Te schrijven - doch, hoe graag hij wilde, Nooit hield hem arbeid lang geboeid; Niets is er uit zijn pen gevloeid

Já esquecera os amigos, a cidade E o tédio das festas de vaidade.

No, I slept as I always do when I am bored and have not the courage to amuse myself, or when I am hungry and have not the desire to eat.--The Count of Monte Cristo

Sometimes I get bored riding down the beautiful streets of L.A. I know it sounds crazy, but I just want to go to New York and see people suffer.

there are two ways to meet life; you may refuse to care until indifference becomes a habit, a defensive armor, and you are safe - but bored. Or you can care greatly, live greatly, until life breaks you on its wheel.

Life is boring. People are vengeful. Good things always end. We do so many things and we don't know why, and if we do find out why, it's decades later and knowing why doesn't matter any more.

Make your utopia too utopian and boredom would set in. And malaise. Some would continue to work hard and challenge themselves at every turn—even if all of their physical and financial needs were taken care of. But many more would fall into the trap of being lulled into a low energy state of endless leisure—and little true happiness. A state of dependence without any real sense of progress, or growth, or accomplishment. A slow poisoning of the soul of the species.

Boredom exists, as Frankl (1955) argued, so that "we will escape inactivity and do justice to the meaning of our life" (p. 87).

There's a rebirth that goes on with us continuously as human beings. I don't understand, personally, how you can be bored. I can understand how you can be depressed, but I just don't understand boredom.

Why must every eleven minutes of my life be filled with misery?

Death: Human beings make life so interesting. Do you know, that in a universe so full of wonders, they have managed to invent boredom.

Life's temporary for a reason, it gets boring after awhile.

I come from Somalia. We start working young, and we understand that kind of life. I would be bored to death not doing anything creative.

If I want a long, boring story with no point to it, I have my life.

The essence of life is the smile of round female bottoms, under the shadow of cosmic boredom.

None but the ignorant can be bored by life. To the lovers of learning, life is pure adventure shared with adventurers.

It is remarkable, in cats, that the outer life they reveal to their masters is one of perpetual boredom.

And I am bored to death with it. Bored to death with this place, bored to death with my life, bored to death with myself.

One must, in one's life, make a choice between boredom and suffering.

All our life passes in this way: we seek rest by struggling against certain obstacles, and once they are overcome, rest proves intolerable because of the boredom it produces.

The worst pair of opposites is boredom and terror. Sometimes your life is a pendulum swing from one to the other.

For boredom speaks the language of time, and it is to teach you the most valuable lesson of your life - the lesson of your utter insignificance.

She had nothing to do all day ... but did it with the greatest possible speed.

I hope I didn't bore you too much with my life story.