Boredom Quotes - Page 12

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

  Arthur C. Clarke

  Enemy, Lasts, Novelty

  Arthur C. Clarke (2012). “Childhood’s End”, p.80, RosettaBooks

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• When I am bored with myself, I try to find someone to listen to me.

  Mason Cooley

  Bored, Trying, Listen To Me

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• A strange effect of marriage, such as the nineteenth century has made it! The boredom of married life inevitably destroys love, when love has preceded marriage. And yet, as a philosopher has observed, it speedily brings about, among people who are rich enough not to have to work, an intense boredom with all quiet forms of enjoyment. And it is only dried up hearts, among women, that it does not predispose to love.

  Stendhal

  Marriage, Heart, People

  Stendhal (2016). “The Red and the Black: World Classics”, p.168, World Classic

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• Conversationis like the table of contents of a dull book.... All the greatest subjects of human thought are proudly displayedin it. Listen to it for three minutes, and you ask yourself which is more striking, the emphasis of the speaker or his shocking ignorance.

  Stendhal

  Book, Ignorance, Thinking

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• Only now do I understand the war against boredom, the lost cause of empty hours, of empty days and nights.

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  War, Night, Causes

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• These are the Seven Deadly Sins: Avarice, Envy, Pride, Gluttony, Lust, Anger, Sloth. These are the seven deadly sins: venality, paranoia, insecurity, excess, carnality, contempt, boredom.

  Martin Amis

  Pride, Envy, Insecurity

  Martin Amis (1981). “Other people: a mystery story”, Jonathan Cape

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• Enjoyment appears at the boundary between boredom and anxiety, when the challenges are just balanced with the person's capacity to act.

  Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

  Positivity, Anxiety, Challenges

  Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi (2001). “Flow: the psychology of optimal experience”

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• He was a volatile mixture of confidence and vulnerability. He could deliver extended monologues on professional matters, then promptly stop in his tracks to peer inquisitively into his guest's eyes for signs of boredom or mockery, being intelligent enough to be unable fully to believe in his own claims to significance. He might, in a past life, have been a particularly canny and sharp-tongued royal advisor.

  Alain de Botton

  Believe, Eye, Intelligent

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• A Strange melancholy pervades me to which I hesitate to give the grave and beautiful name of sorrow. The idea of sorrow has always appealed to me but now I am almost ashamed of it's complete egoism. I have known boredom, regret, and occasionally remorse, but never sorrow. Today it envelops me like a silken web, enervating and soft, and sets me apart from everybody else.

  Francoise Sagan

  Sad, Beautiful, Regret

  FRANCOISE SAGAN (1955). “BONOUR TRISTESSE”

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• I suppose you could call me...Soot," said the thing. "Yes...Soot. I have breathed it, lived in it, and eaten it for so long that it is a fitting name." "Eaten it?" asked Suzy. "Why eat soot?" "Boredom," said Soot.

  Garth Nix

  Names, Long, Fitting

  Garth Nix (2010). “The Keys to the Kingdom #2: Grim Tuesday”, p.170, Scholastic Inc.

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• Ennui is the disease of hearts without feeling, and of minds without resources.

  Madame Roland

  Heart, Feelings, Mind

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• Sociopaths are not inhibited by the notion that it's wrong to be addicted, or wrong to buy illegal drugs. Also, drinking or taking drugs can be a lot of fun, and even if it's not, it can dull that painful boredom for a while. So can certain other things, like taking risks, and particularly if you take a risk-averse person and you can manipulate him or her into taking risks, that's really fun.

  Martha Stout

  Fun, Drinking, Drug

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Boredom and fatigue are great historical forces.

  Jacques Barzun

  Historical, Force, Fatigue

  "The age of entropy" by Stephen Moss, www.theguardian.com. March 2, 2001.

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• The gods were bored and so they created man. Adam was bored because he was alone, so Eve was created. Thus boredom entered the world, and increased in proportion to the increase in population. Adam was bored alone, then Adam and Eve were bored together; them Adam and Eve and Cain and Abel were bored en famille; then the population of the world increased, and the people were bored en masse.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Men, People, Together

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• The merely well-informed man is the most useless bore on God's earth.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Men, Useless, Earth

  Alfred North Whitehead (1967). “Aims of Education”, p.1, Simon and Schuster

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• As for America, it is the ideal fruit of all your youthful hopes and reforms. Everybody is fairly decent, respectable, domestic, bourgeois, middle-class, and tiresome. There is absolutely nothing to revile except that it's a bore.

  Henry Adams

  Class, America, Reform

  Henry Adams, Jacob Clavner Levenson, Ernest Samuels, Charles Vandersee (1982). “The Letters of Henry Adams”, p.200, Harvard University Press

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• One thing is certain: the arts keep you alive. They stimulate, encourage, challenge, and, most of all, guarantee a future free from boredom. They allow growth and even demand it in that time of life we call maturity but too often enter it with a childish faith that what we learned in youth is sustenance enough for the years when most men are mentally famished but won't admit it—or when they are apt to curb their hunger with the sops of complacency, security, and the assurance of death.

  Vincent Price

  Art, Maturity, Men

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• One thing I can say about George... he may not be able to keep a job, but he's not boring.

  Barbara Bush

  Jobs, May, Able

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• ...to experience the reality was to suffer a boredom as endless as the illness itself...the boredom of insanity was a great desert, so great that anyone's violence or agony seemed an oasis, and the brief companionship seemed like a rain in the desert that was numbered and counted and remembered long after it was gone.

  Joanne Greenberg

  Rain, Reality, Oasis

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• That human life must be some kind of mistake is sufficiently proved by the simple observation that man is a compound of needs which are hard to satisfy; that their satisfaction achieves nothing but a painless condition in which he is only given over to boredom . . .

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Mistake, Simple, Men

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2004). “On the Suffering of the World”, p.22, Penguin UK

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• Boredom forces you to ring people you haven’t seen for eighteen years and halfway through the conversation you remember why you left it so long. Boredom means you start to read not only mail-order catalogues but also the advertising inserts that fall on the floor. Boredom gives you half a mind to get a gun and go berserk in the local shopping centre, and you know where this is going. Eventually, boredom means you will take up golf.

  Jeremy Clarkson

  Fall, Mean, Golf

  Jeremy Clarkson (2004). “The world according to Clarkson”

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• I am bored with gabbers and their gab; my soul abhors them. . . . Is there any place where there is no traffic in empty talk? Is there on this earth one who does not worship himself talking?

  Khalil Gibran

  Talking, Soul, Doe

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• We come from a long line of people who live to read boring texts – I think it may be why we all die young. Complete boredom. (Geary)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Thinking, Long, People

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2007). “The Dream-Hunter”, p.193, Macmillan

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• The inexorable boredom that is at the core of life.

  Jacques-Benigne Bossuet

  Life, Inexorable, Core

  "A Book of French Quotations" edited by Norbert Guterman, 1963.

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• The average man gets his living by such depressing devices that boredom becomes a sort of natural state to him.

  H. L. Mencken

  Life, Depressing, Men

  H. L. Mencken (2015). “In Defense of Women: Human Sexuality”, p.49, 谷月社

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