Quotes About Boredom

Morality is a venereal disease. Its primary stage is called virtue; its secondary stage, boredom; its tertiary stage, syphilis.

Popularity comes from allowing yourself to be bored by people while pretending to enjoy it.

And what is boredom? Perhaps the inability to find meaning, to complete a perception, to arrive at an understanding: partly grasped, but forever just out of reach. It is not lack of interest, but interest frustrated, cut off, imperfectly held. So says the Chronicle today. But for me it is the fear of emptiness.

Modesty alone doesn't prove a man a hero. But it's incontrovertible that immodesty makes him a bore.

Vivre me causait un ennui du réel.

The boredom you speak of," Alabaster said. "It is what most of us call happiness.

I suppose we drink and we smoke for the same reasons it is done elsewhere. We must fill our infinite days with something.

The boredom you speak of, it is what most of us call happiness.

Janine looks at her watch. "Janine looks at her watch," Daniel says. "She is bored with the old writer." Janine smiles. "Strike the second sentence. Reader will know. Show, don't tell.

Fue una obra extraña en la que algunos actores personificaban diversos símbolos, una de esas representaciones sesudas en las que te aburres como una ostra pero no te atreves a decirlo porque no quieres que un grupo de seudointelectuales te trate como una estúpida. Solo te diré que había muchas frases del estilo 'La Madre Tierra está sobre nosotros'.

See, the 'On the Road' that came out in 1957 was censored. A lot of the honesty of it, the bitter honesty, is in the original scroll version that came out in 2007 on the 50-year anniversary. Back then, there was so much post-Second World War fear that was imposed on everybody - 'You must live life this way' - and these guys were bored.

What's your least favorite thing to do? Why?

Staranje je klavrna stvar. Zaznamovano z omejitvami in kr?enjem. Vem, da doleti vse; vendar mislim, da bi lahko bilo tudi druga?e...V naši trenutni miselnosti, v kolektivnem dolg?asu, smo se pa? odlo?ili, da bo tako. Toda nekega dne se bo rodil mutant, ki bo zavrnil staranje, ki ne bo hotel sprejeti omejitev telesa, ki bo zdrav, dokler ne bo opravil z življenjem, namesto, da bi mu telo odpovedalo oporo.

When we live for ourselves, we become boring. Most of us are simply not interesting enough on our own to captivate someone else for five or six decades.

I'd get bored with myself if I was married to me, so it only makes sense that Lisa might occasionally be bored—or at least grow weary—of living with me. But God delights in both of us. God appreciates our quirks and understands our hearts' good intentions even when they might be masked by incredibly stupid behavior.

Certainty of success leads to boredom, and doubt creates anxiety. Depression results from certain doubt: the assessment that the gap between real and ideal can never be bridged.

is boring to most people. Nothing happens. On the other end of the spectrum is the story that uses characters who are simply buffeted around by the story. Things happen to them, and character and

The world was kept intact by the fantastic predilection of the human mind for boredom.

The days hardened with cold and boredom like last year's loaves of bread. One began to cut them with blunt knives without appetite, with a lazy indifference.

The reason the Dead do not return nowadays is the boredom of it.

Watching TV becomes a full-time job when you can scan 200 channels all day and all night and still have the option of punching Night Dreams into the video machine, if the rest of the world seems dull.

Those whom the Gods wish to destroy, they first make bored.

Just as, at least in one religion, accidia is the first of the cardinal sins, so bordom, and particularly the incredible circumstance of waking up bored, was the only vice Bond utterly condemned.

He looked up at Mathis to see how bored he was getting with these introspective refinements of what, to Mathis, was a simple question of duty. Mathis smiled back at him.