Boredom Quotes - Page 19

• In the old days, people used to risk their lives in India or in the Americas in order to bring back products which now seem to us to have been of comically little worth, such as brazilwood and pepper, which added a new range of sense experience to a civilization which had never suspected its own insipidity... From these same lands our modern Marco Polos now bring back the moral spices of which our society feels an increasing need as it is conscious of sinking further into boredom, but that this time they take the form of photographs, books, and travelers tales.

  Claude Levi-Strauss

  Book, Order, Land

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• [On Senator Everett Dirksen:] His great enemy was boredom and he won every engagement.

  Mary McGrory

  Enemy, Engagement, Politician

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• My definition of what makes a journey wholly or partially horrible is boredom.

  Martha Gellhorn

  Journey, Definitions, Horrible

  Martha Gellhorn (2001). “Travels with Myself and Another: A Memoir”, p.224, Penguin

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• In man, at least, satisfaction is commonly followed by boredom.

  Rene Dubos

  Men, Satisfaction

  René Jules Dubos (1987). “Mirage of Health: Utopias, Progress, and Biological Change”, p.52, Rutgers University Press

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• I've never known a Philadelphian who wasn't a downright 'character'; possibly a defense mechanism resulting from the dullness of their native habitat.

  Anita Loos

  Character, Cities, Philadelphia

  Anita Loos (1974). “Kiss Hollywood good-by”, Viking Adult

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

  Barry Cryer

  Damage, Adultery

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• ...boredom is all about perception. It's a self-diagnosis, plain and simple. If you don't realize you're bored, you're not.

  Susan Maushart

  Simple, Self, Bored

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• In some ways, the great danger for this commodified universe is our boredom with it ... There is this sort of dialectic that you could tease out, that even in this overdeveloped late-capitalist world, that boredom was still this kind of critical energy that you could work on and try to theorize and then act on, to find other kinds of belonging, other kinds of desire, other kinds of life.

  McKenzie Wark

  Desire, Trying, World

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• Boredom is the biggest problem. The same position. Same day of the week. It becomes boring when you don't bring any added flowers home.

  Ruth Westheimer

  Flower, Home, Problem

  "Ruth Westheimer: What I've Learned" by Cal Fussman, www.esquire.com. December 21, 2010.

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

  Frank Herbert

  Believe, Free Will, Reason

  "God Emperor of Dune". Book by Frank Herbert, 1981.

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• For, when you are approaching poverty, you make one discovery which outweighs some of the others. You discover boredom and mean complications and the beginnings of hunger, but you also discover the great redeeming feature of poverty: the fact that it annihilates the future. Within certain limits, it is actually true that the less money you have, the less you worry.

  George Orwell

  Mean, Discovery, Worry

  George Orwell (2012). “Down and Out in Paris and London”, p.14, Lulu.com

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• Speak on, but be not over-tedious.

  William Shakespeare

  Speech, Speak, Tedious

  William Shakespeare, Samuel Johnson, George Steevens (1785). “The Plays of William Shakspeare ...”, p.250

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• I'm so bored. I went to the food locker yesterday to visit my meat.

  Erma Bombeck

  Yesterday, Meat, Lockers

  Erma Bombeck (2013). “The Erma Bombeck Collection: If Life Is a Bowl of Cherries, What Am I Doing in the Pits?, Motherhood, and The Grass Is Always Greener Over the Septic Tank”, p.433, Open Road Media

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• Work is the law of life, and to reject it as boredom is to submit to it as torment.

  Victor Hugo

  Law, Submit, Torment

  Victor Hugo (1980). “Les misérables”, Viking Pr

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• Topographically the country is magnificent - and terrifying. Why terrifying? Because nowhere else in the world is the divorce between man and nature so complete. Nowhere have I encountered such a dull, monotonous fabric of life as here in America. Here boredom reaches its peak.

  Henry Miller

  Country, Divorce, Men

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• Escape from boredom is one of the really powerful desires of almost all human beings.

  Bertrand Russell

  Powerful, Desire, Humans

  Bertrand Russell (2009). “Bertrand Russell's Best”, p.3, Routledge

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• If the world is a progressively realized community of interpretation, then either quadruplictity will drink procrastination or, provided that the nothing negates, boredom will ensue seldom more often than frequently.

  Woody Allen

  Procrastination, Community, World

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• The Western Idea of practice is to acquire a skill. It is very much related to your work ethic, which enjoins us to endure struggle or boredom now in return for future rewards. The Eastern idea of practice, on the other hand, is to create the person, or rather to actualize or reveal the complete person who is already there.... Not only is practice necessary to art, it is art.

  Stephen Nachmanovitch

  Art, Struggle, Hands

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• Man needs air, man needs water, man needs food and man needs adventure also! Adventure is a medicine for the infinite boredom.

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Adventure, Men, Medicine

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• The only way to live a long life is in a state of constant boredom.

  Gerd de Ley

  Long, Way To Live, Life Is

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• monotony is not to be worshipped as a virtue; nor the marriage bed treated as a coffin for security rather than a couch from which to rise refreshed.

  Freya Stark

  Bed, Coffins, Virtue

  Freya Stark (2013). “Perseus In The Wind: A Life of Travel”, p.111, Tauris Parke Paperbacks

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• The key is the ability, whether innate or conditioned, to find the other side of the rote, the picayune, the meaningless, the repetitive, the pointlessly complex. To be, in a word, unborable... It is the key to modern life. If you are immune to boredom, there is literally nothing you cannot accomplish.

  David Foster Wallace

  Keys, Sides, Modern Life

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• For Heidegger, boredom is a privileged fundamental mood because it leads us directly into the very problem complex of being and time.

  Lars Svendsen

  Bored, Fundamentals, Problem

  Lars Svendsen (2005). “A Philosophy of Boredom”, p.116, Reaktion Books

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• Remember—boredom is the enemy, not some abstract "failure.

  Tim Ferriss

  Inspirational, Enemy, Remember

  "The 4-Hour Work Week: Escape the 9-5, Live Anywhere and Join the New Rich". Book by Tim Ferriss, 2007.

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• A utopia cannot, by definition, include boredom, but the 'utopia' we are living in is boring.

  Lars Svendsen

  Bored, Boring, Utopia

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