Quotes About Listlessness

How does it happen that in life as in literature, rebellion, however pure, has something false about it, whereas resignation, however tainted with listlessness, always gives the impression of authenticity

THe Gnobi, when not roused to violence, were a sluggish clan, the least nomadic of Boarderland's tribes. Not sensing any immediate threat to their freedoms in the person of Jack Diamond, they had responded to his urgency with characteristic listessness. Myrval's tent is somewhere that way, one of them had said with a vauge wave of the hand. Follow the sound of the snoring and you'll find it, another had suggested.

The sunlight bores the daylights out of me

I want to care, but I don't. I look at you and all I feel is tired.

i am always bored. (gwendolen harleth)

Every time I think I've touched bottom as far as boredom is concerned, new vistas of ennui open up.

El espantoso descenso al fondo de la tristeza. Por lo mismo que uno está triste, no tiene más ganas de hacer nada alegre. Ya nunca pongo un disco cuando me levanto.Ya nunca escucho música, no voy más al cine, no me compro nada que me guste.

Nobody thinks, nobody cares. No beliefs, no convictions and no enthusiasm. Just another Sunday evening.

He was drained of feeling, and he felt very old and tired.

Yet at all costs I had to keep my hands and body and mind moving. Doing that, I hoped, albeit listlessly, would somehow, someday, lead to a breakthrough. There was no guarantee, but I would try to endure, no matter what, until it came.

Winston was gelatinous with fatigue.

It struck him that the truly characteristic thing about modern life was not its cruelty and insecurity, but simply its bareness, its dinginess, its listlessness. Life, if you looked about you, bore no resemblance not only to the lies that streamed out of the telescreens, but even to the ideals that the party was trying to achieve.

lethargy which springs from despair.

My salvation is that I never took any interest in anything.

But after a while, the whole thing just wasn't interesting to him anymore, and he ran out of things to keep himself numb.

The loudest sound on earth, she thought, is a man with nothing to do.

The loudest sound on the earth, she thought, is a man with nothing to do.

Boredom is a bit of a bore, to say the least.

Next to want, boredom has become the worst scourge in our lives.

My nervous system is a shattered wreck, and I am absolutely bored and listless save when I come upon something which peculiarly interests me.

But I no longer had a taste for anything, a wish for anything, a love for anybody, a desire for anything whatever, any ambition, or any hope.

One day, you don't feel like doing anything. Nothing interests you, everything bores you. Feel more and more empty inside, more and more dissatisfied with yourself and the world in general. Then even that feeling wears off, and you don't feel anything anymore. You become completely indifferent to what goes on around you. You forget how to laugh and cry - you're cold inside and incapable of loving anything or anyone. There's no going back. The disease has a name. It's called deadly tedium.

Tessa liked her, in a dreary sort of way – the sort of way one liked picking one's nails or staying in bed all morning.

Charlie Ledley was even worse: He had the pallor of a mortician and the manner of a man bent on putting off, for as long as possible, definite action.