Boredom Quotes - Page 16

• Boredom, Timothy Duane assured me, is nothing more than anger without passion.

  Isabel Allende

  Passion, Assured

  Isabel Allende (1993). “The Infinite Plan: A Novel”, Harpercollins

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• the calm of a place like Bellwood is the peace of death without the hope of resurrection.

  Mary Roberts Rinehart

  Calm, Resurrection

  Mary Roberts Rinehart (1910). “The window at the White Cat”

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• Why do long marriages occasionally endow their inhabitants with a rare kind of equilibrium otherwise almost unknown in human relations? My guess is that the value of the moment has at last overshadowed the long history of resentments, betrayals, and boredom.

  Carolyn Heilbrun

  Marriage, Betrayal, Long

  Carolyn G. Heilbrun (2011). “The Last Gift of Time: Life Beyond Sixty”, p.213, Ballantine Books

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• There is nothing boring in life except ourselves.

  Nadia Boulanger

  Boring

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• I am tired to death! tired of every thing! I would give the universe for a disposition less difficult to please. Yet, after all, what is there to give pleasure? When one has seen one thing, one has seen every thing.

  Fanny Burney

  Tired, Giving, Pleasure

  Frances Burney, Fanny Burney (2015). “Complete Works of Frances Burney (Delphi Classics)”, p.653, Delphi Classics

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• Boredom is the specter that haunts children from kindergarten to graduation on every continent.

  Amanda Ripley

  Education, Children, Kindergarten

  Amanda Ripley (2014). “The Smartest Kids in the World: And How They Got That Way”, p.209, Simon and Schuster

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• We know what boredom is: it is a dull
  Impatience or a fierce velleity,
  A champing wish, stalled by our lassitude,
  To make or do. In the strict sense, of course,
  We invent nothing, merely bearing witness
  To what each morning brings again to light

  Richard Wilbur

  Morning, Light, Wish

  Richard Wilbur (2006). “Collected Poems 1943-2004”, p.83, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• In a world which furnishes so many employments which are useful, and so many which are amusing, it is our own fault if we ever know what ennui [boredom] is, or if we are ever driven to the miserable resource of gaming, which corrupts our dispositions, and teaches us a habit of hostility against all mankind.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Gambling, Employment, World

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• All things here appear to me to trudge on in one and the same round: we rise in the morning that we may eat breakfast, dinner andsupper and to bed again that we may get up the next morning and do the same: so that you never saw two peas more alike than our yesterday and to-day.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Morning, Two, Yesterday

  Thomas Jefferson (2010). “The Works of Thomas Jefferson: Autobiography, Anas, Writings 1760-1770”, p.439, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Symmetry is tedious, and tedium is the very basis of mourning. Despair yawns.

  Victor Hugo

  Mourning, Despair, Tedium

  'Les Misèrables' (1862) vol. 2, bk. 4, ch. 1

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• Sometimes I dread loneliness more than bores. Other times, the reverse.

  Mason Cooley

  Loneliness, Sometimes, Dread

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• I did 50 takes on Robert Shaw assembling the Greener Gun on 'Jaws.' The shark wasn't working, so I just kept shooting to make the production report look like we were accomplishing something and to keep cast and crew from going crazy from boredom. It was a strategic indulgence.

  Steven Spielberg

  Crazy, Gun, Sharks

  Source: www.indiewire.com

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• Nobody has any right to find life uninteresting or unrewarding who sees within the sphere of his own activity a wrong he can help to remedy, or within himself an evil he can hope to overcome.

  Charles William Eliot

  Evil, Overcoming, Spheres

  Charles William Eliot (1926). “Charles W. Eliot: the man and his beliefs”

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• To fool a judge, feign fascination, but to bamboozle the whole court, feign boredom.

  David Mitchell

  Judging, Fascination, Fool

  David Mitchell (2012). “Cloud Atlas (Enhanced Movie Tie-in Edition): A Novel”, p.40, Random House Group

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• We define boredom as the pain a person feels when he's doing nothing or something irrelevant, instead of something he wants to do but won't, can't, or doesn't dare. Boredom is acute when he knows the other thing and inhibits his action, e.g., out of politeness, embarrassment, fear of punishment or shame. Boredom is chronic if he has repressed the thought of it and no longer is aware of it. A large part of stupidity is just the chronic boredom, for a person can't learn, or be intelligent about, what he's not interested in, when his repressed thoughts are elsewhere.

  Paul Goodman

  Pain, Blessing, Intelligent

  "Growing Up Absurd" by Paul Goodman, (pp. 71-72), 1956.

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• The essence of boredom is to be found in the obsessive search for novelty.

  George Leonard

  Essence, Novelty, Found

  George Leonard (1992). “Mastery: The Keys to Success and Long-Term Fulfillment”, p.69, Penguin

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• People sometimes tell me that they prefer barbarism to civilisation. I doubt if they have given it a long enough trial. Like the people of Alexandria, they are bored by civilisation; but all the evidence suggests that the boredom of barbarism is infinitely greater.

  Kenneth Clark

  Long, People, Doubt

  Kenneth Clark (2015). “Civilisation”, p.16, Hachette UK

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• I have to start my real life soon, before I die of boredom and frustration.

  William Boyd

  Real, Frustration, Dies

  William Boyd (2003). “Any human heart: a novel”, Alfred a Knopf Inc

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• "I have no more than twenty acres of ground," he replied, "the whole of which I cultivate myself with the help of my children; and our labor keeps off from us the three great evils - boredom, vice, and want."

  Voltaire

  Children, Evil, Vices

  Voltaire (2017). “Candide (Français Anglais édition illustré): Candide (French English Edition illustrated)”, p.229, Clap Publishing, LLC.

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• The life of a creator is not the only life nor perhaps the most interesting which a man leads. There is a time for play and a time for work, a time for creation and a time for lying fallow. And there is a time, glorious too in its own way, when one scarcely exists, when one is a complete void. I mean-when boredom seems the very stuff of life.

  Henry Miller

  Lying, Mean, Men

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• The way to be a bore is to say everything.

  Voltaire

  Way, Bores

  'Sur la Nature de l'Homme' v.174-5 in 'Sept Discours en vers sur l'homme'

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• I can never think of the time I spend idling in railway stations as lost; it's a waiting liberated from the three temporal vices of regret, anticipation or boredom, the weak echo of that bliss spent between lifetimes.

  Eric Morecambe

  Regret, Thinking, Echoes

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• I wanted to make good records. But my problem is I've got a low boredom threshold, so I wanted it to look and sound different with each album, which is really tantamount to suicide, cause people lose it, they lose it - they say: 'I like that, and that's not this.'

  Adam Ant

  Suicide, People, Sound

  "Adam Ant: 'To be a pop star you need sex, subversion, style and humour'" by Decca Aitkenhead, www.theguardian.com. February 19, 2012.

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• The essence of boredom is to be found in the obsessive search for novelty. Satisfaction lies in mindful repetition, the discovery of endless richness in subtle variations on familiar themes.

  George Leonard

  Lying, Discovery, Essence

  George Leonard (1992). “Mastery: The Keys to Success and Long-Term Fulfillment”, p.69, Penguin

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• The worst sin, the ultimate sin for me, in anything, is to be bored.

  Ted Turner

  Sin, Worst, Ultimate

  Ted Turner, Janet Lowe (1999). “Ted Turner speaks: insight from the world's greatest maverick”, Wiley

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