Browsing Topic Best Boredom Quotes

Depressed, anxious, sad, frightened? Yes. But I’ve never been bored.

If men cannot struggle on behalf of a just cause because that just cause was victorious in an earlier generation, then they will struggle against the just cause. They will struggle out of a certain boredom: for they cannot imagine living in a world without struggle.

The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom.

What if we choose not to do the things we are supposed to do? The principal gain is a sense of an authentic act – and an authentic life. It may be a short one, but it is an authentic one, and that’s a lot better than those short lives full of boredom. The principal loss is security. Another is respect from the community. But you gain the respect of another community, the one that is worth having the respect of.

Work spares us from three evils: boredom, vice, and need.

To escape boredom, man works either beyond what his usual needs require, or else he invents play, that is, work that is designed to quiet no need other than that for working in general.

Many persons lead lives of crushing boredom.

A great affliction of all Philistines is that idealities afford them no entertainment, but to escape from boredom they are always in need of realities.

They say that adultery is the main thing that can damage a marriage, but it’s not. It’s boredom.

The Chinese have a theory that you pass through boredom into fascination and I think it’s true. I would never choose a subject for what it means to me or what I think about it. You’ve just got to choose a subject – and what you feel about it, what it means, begins to unfold if you just plain choose a subject and do it enough.

I love heights. I love speed. Im on the verge of being a pyromaniac. Maybe my phobia is boredom.

I have come to believe that holy boredom is good and sufficient reason for the invention of free will.

Education must enable young people to effect what they have recognized to be right, despite hardships, despite dangers, despite inner skepticism, despite boredom, and despite mockery from the world. . . .

The most costly disease is boredom costly for both individual and society.

Boredom and stupidity and patriotism, especially when combined, are three of the greatest evils of the world we live in.

Boredom and booze–cause and effect.

My marriage didn’t make me sad, but it didn’t make me happy either. My husband and I hardly spoke to each other. This wasn’t because we were angry. We had nothing to say. I was dying of boredom.

It is not the simple statement of facts that ushers in freedom; it is the constant repetition of them that has this liberating effect. Tolerance is the result not of enlightenment, but of boredom.

Boredom is the effort used in suppressing something negative.

The main thing I got from growing up in a suburb is the boredom you have as a child.

Boredom turns a man to sex, a woman to shopping, and it drives newscasters berserk.

I’ve made a career over the last seventeen years of mostly playing men in uniform, especially cops. The one thing for an actor that is death, is if you’re bored. The boredom will show in your work.

BOREDOM with established truths is a great enemy of free men.

Commonly, people believe that defeat is characterized by a general bustle and a feverish rush. Bustle and rush are the signs of victory, not of defeat. Victory is a thing of action. It is a house in the act of being built. Every participant in victory sweats and puffs, carrying the stones for the building of the house. But defeat is a thing of weariness, of incoherence, of boredom. And above all of futility.

unless I can shake myself free of my dog, my flag,of my desk, my mind, I find life a bit of a drag.Not always, mind you. Usually I’m like my frying panuseful, graceful, sturdy and with no caper, no plan.

If life — the craving for which is the very essence of our being — were possessed of any positive intrinsic value, there would be no such thing as boredom at all: mere existence would satisfy us in itself, and we should want for nothing.

Of course, true love is exceptional – two or three times a century, more or less. The rest of the time there is vanity or boredom.

I rarely deal with boredom these days. I used to spend a lot of time saying I was bored until I realized there is always something I could be doing. Whenever I have free time, I love using that time to improve myself in different ways. If you think about it, there are tons of things we still don’t know much about.

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.

Any country where I am not bored is a country that teaches me nothing.

Boredom is… a vital problem for the moralist, since half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it.

Patience and boredom are closely related. Boredom, a certain kind of boredom, is really impatience. You don’t like the way things are, they aren’t interesting enough for you, so you deccide- and boredom is a decision-that you are bored.

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

Boredom is an evil that is not to be estimated lightly. It can come in the end to real despair. The public authority takes precautions against it everywhere, as against other universal calamities.

Something must happen; that is the reason for most human relationships. Something must happen; even servitude in love, in war, ordeath.