Quotes About Boredom

Ennui is the echo in us of time tearing itself apart.

If truth were not boring, science would have done away with God long ago. But God as well as the saints is a means to escape the dull banality of truth.

Melancholy is a kind of boredom refined, the feeling that one does not belong to this world. It's a sensation of irremediable exile, without immediate cause. Melancholy is a feeling deeply autonomous, also independent of the failure of those great personal successes. Nostalgia, on the contrary, still clings to something, even if it is only to the past.

Plictiseala? O convalescenta incurabila.

The Romans were not wiped out by the invasions of the barbarians, nor by the Christian virus, but by a more subtle evil, boredom.

Boredom in the midst of paradise generated our first ancestor's appetite for the abyss which has won us this procession of centuries whose end we now have in view. That appetite, a veritable nostalgia for hell, would not fail to ravage the race following us and to make it the worthy heir of our misfortunes.

Essentially, boredom is centered upon time, on the horror of time, on the fear of time, the disclosure of time, the awareness of time. Those who are not aware of time passing do not get bored. It's not the time that passes, it's the time that doesn't pass.

Nu m? pot concentra asupra nici unui lucru, pentru c? totul m? plictiseÅŸte, totul m? îndeamn? s? m? risipesc. In schimb, m-am interesat de-o mulÅ£ime de lucruri, dar de niciunul pîn? la cap?t, cu excepÅ£ia plictisului, poate...

Viata se creeaza in delir si se desface in plictis.

In numele si sub teroarea ei (plictiselii, n.m.) parasesc oamenii caminul si moartea agreabila legata de el si se avanta in lume, spre a muri undeva fara acoperis si fara lacrimi; adolescentii se gandesc la sinucideri in zile infinite de primavara, iar servitoarele fara amanti se lamenteaza duminicile, de parca inima lor e un cimitir in care mortii nu pot dormi.

Tot ce nu are un accent de durere- o privire, o vorb?, o carte sau o voce- m? plictise?te de moarte.

Am abuzat de cuvîhtul dezgust. Dar ce alt termen s? aleg pentru a indica o stare în care exasperarea e neîncetattemperat? de plictiseal?, iar plictiseala de exasperare ?

Plictiseala- absenÅ£a de muzic? a materiei Melancolia- muzic? înconÅŸtient? a sufletului Extazul- delirul spiritului Lacrimile- muzica sub forma materiei

celui que ne connaît point l'ennui se trouve encore à l'enfance du monde, où les âges attendaient de naître

One grasps incomparably more things in boredom than by labor, effort being the mortal enemy in meditation.

El hastío es un vértigo, pero un vértigo tranquilo, monótono; es la revelación de la insignificancia universal, es la certidumbre llevada hasta el estupor o hasta la suprema clarividencia de que no se puede, de que no se debe hacer nada en este mundo ni en el otro, que no existe ningún mundo que pueda convenirnos y satisfacernos.

To that friend who tells me he is bored because he cannot work, I answer that boredom is a higher state, and that we debase it by relating it to the notion of work.

El aburrimiento es el eco en nosotros del tiempo que se desgarra…, la revelación del vacío, el cese de ese delirio que sostiene —o inventa— la vida…

Boredom has made me into a speechifier ashamed of raising his voice, a theoretician for the senile and the adolescent, for metaphysical menopauses, a vestige of a creature, a hallucinated clown.

Isn't history ultimately the result of our fear of boredom?

You're so easy to read but the book is boring me.

Society is too correct and dull to be an occupation.

Sport is the big giveaway. Wherever sport plays a big part in people's lives you can be sure they're bored witless and just waiting to break up the furniture.

Police violence, I noted, was directly proportional to police boredom, and not to any resistance offered by protestors.