Quotes About Boredom

Utopia was here at last: its novelty had not yet been assailed by the supreme enemy of all Utopias—boredom.

the newspapers of Utopia, he had long ago decided, would be terribly dull.

They had not yet attained the stupefying boredom of omnipotence; their experiments did not always succeed.

The existence of so much leisure would have created tremendous problems a century before. Education had overcome most of these, for a well stocked mind is safe from boredom.

They had not yet attained the stupefying boredom of absolute omnipotence;

No one worried except a few philosophers. The race was too intent upon savoring its new-found freedom to look beyond the pleasures of the present. Utopia was here at last: its novelty had not yet been assailed by the supreme enemy of all Utopias—boredom. Perhaps

Utopia was here at last: its novelty had not yet been assailed by the supreme enemy of all Utopias—boredom. Perhaps

well-stocked mind is safe from boredom.

The worst thing is, they get bored. The disadvantage of overeducation

I abhour the dull routine of existence - Sherlock Holmes

Pero me horroriza la aburrida rutina de la existencia. Tengo ansias de exaltación mental.

The life is an adventure. Is exciting and terrifying. From time to time can be a little bored but should never be serious.

Detesto scrivere pezzi autobiografici: se il materiale è noioso non bisognerebbe infliggerlo a nessuno, e se è interessante dovrei usarlo per un racconto.

It's in the nature of many dogs to do some kind of work, training manuals say (assigned a task, dogs showing signs of boredom or depression often perk up), but people almost never give them enough - if anything - to do.

boredom is key for developing our imagination. A child who is never bored has no space to dream, or to work up a solution to their predicament, and less reason to create.

Tragedies are all right for a while: you are concerned, you are curious, you feel good. And then it gets repetitive, it doesn't advance, it grows dreadfully boring: it is so very boring, even for me.

I could easily understand why Lambert was bored with this peace which gave us back our lives without giving us back our reasons for living.

I got the desire to write very young, at fourteen or fifteen years of age … I endured the world which was given to me sometimes with joy, often with revolt or boredom; I wanted to make it mine in order to justify it in some way. So I thought I had everything to say: the whole world, life, everything. In my youthful, adolescent diaries, at eighteen, nineteen years old, this leitmotif appears over and over: I will say everything, I have everything to say.

Je me passerais bien, comme vous pouvez le penser, de toutes ces distractions; c'est si assommant de s'amuser quand on n'en sent à aucun degré le besoin.

If the middle classes haven't the same need of an apocalypse, it is because long rows of figures have a poetry, a prestige which tempers in some sort the boredom associated with money; whereas, when money is counted in sixpences, we have boredom in its pure, unadulterated state. Nevertheless, that taste shown by bourgeois, both great and small, for Fascism, indicates that, in spite of everything, they too can feel bored.

And for all her theoretical desire to make their house a refuge for him and for whomever he liked to invite, she had never learned to keep her opinions of people to herself. When she was bored by callers, she would beg Do you mind if I run up to bed now--such a headache, with a bright friendliness which fooled no one save herself, and which left their guests chilled and awkward.

Authors have the power to bore people long after we are dead. –

Boredom is the root of all evil - the despairing refusal to be oneself.

Idleness, we are accustomed to say, is the root of all evil. To prevent this evil, work is recommended.... Idleness as such is by no means a root of evil; on the contrary, it is truly a divine life, if one is not bored....