Boredom Quotes - Page 31

• Everyone will recognize that each sound carries with it a tangle of sensations, already well-known and exhausted, which predispose the listener to boredom, in spite of the efforts of all musical innovators.

  Luigi Russolo

  Effort, Musical, Sound

  Luigi Russolo (1986). “The art of noises”, Pendragon Pr

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• What are the politics of boredom?

  Malcolm Mclaren

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• The existential vacuum manifests itself mainly in a state of boredom.

  Viktor E. Frankl

  Vacuums, Existential, States

  Viktor E. Frankl (1985). “Man's Search For Meaning”, p.129, Simon and Schuster

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• Desire is always followed by boredom. And only love can defeat boredom. Love with a capital L; we all dream of it.

  Gregoire

  Dream, Desire, Defeat

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• It is remarkable, in cats, that the outer life they reveal to their master is one of perpetual confident boredom. All they betray of the hidden life is by means of symbol; if it were not for the recurring evidence of murder – the disemboweled rabbits, the headless flickers, the torn squirrels – we should forever imagine our cats to be simple pets whose highest ambition is to sleep in the best soft chair, whose worst crime is to sharpen their claws on carpeting.

  Robley Wilson

  Ambition, Mean, Sleep

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• One road to happiness is to cultivate curiosity about everything. Not only about people but about subjects, not only about the arts but about history and foreign customs. Not only about countries and cities, but about plants and animals. Not only about lichened rocks and curious markings on the bark of trees, but about stars and atoms. Not only about your friends but about that strange labyrinth we inhabit which we call ourselves. Then, if we do that, we will never suffer a moment's boredom.

  Gerald Brenan

  Happiness, Happy, Country

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• 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.

  Marilyn Monroe

  Inspiring, Husband, Dying

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• It is love that transports us, that fills us with joy! Love turns life into one long adventure, every encounter is a dazzling experience - well, not always, of course, but in actual fact, it is our less successful love affairs that enable us to appreciate the others. I think love protects us from one of the biggest problems facing the modern world: boredom.

  François Lelord

  Adventure, Successful, Thinking

  François Lelord (2011). “Hector and the Secrets of Love”, p.23, Gallic Books

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• Every brand builder will face a million temptations to obscure, dilute, or confuse his or her brand message. These temptations fall under two general headings: boredom and the desire for growth.

  David F. D'Alessandro

  Fall, Two, Temptation

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• 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.

  Bertrand Russell

  Interesting, Decision, Way

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• If you're not part of the freaks, you're part of the boredom.

  Perry Farrell

  Freak, Ifs

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• I really think I write about everyday life. I don't think I'm quite as odd as others say I am. Life is intrinsically, well, boring and dangerous at the same time. At any given moment the floor may open up. Of course, it almost never does; that's what makes it so boring.

  Edward Gorey

  Writing, Thinking, Everyday

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• Freedom without any purpose feels a whole lot like boredom.

  Inio Asano

  Purpose, Feels, Whole

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• Pop is everything art hasn't been for the last two decades...It springs newborn out of a boredom with the finality and over-saturation of Abstract-Expressionism, which, by its own esthetic logic, is the END of art, the glorious pinnacle of the long pyramidal creative process. Stifled by this rarefied atmosphere, some young painters turn back to some less exalted things like Coca-Cola, ice-cream sodas, big hamburgers, super-markets and 'EAT' signs. They are eye-hungry; they pop.

  Robert Indiana

  Art, Spring, Eye

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• Living, just by itself - what a dirge that is! Life is a classroom and Boredom's the usher, there all the time to spy on you.

  Louis-Ferdinand Celine

  Spy, Life Is, Classroom

  "Journey to the End of the Night". Book by Louis-Ferdinand Celine, 1932.

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• Despite what I had acchieved, I don't for a moment think I am any braver or better than anyone else.  This is how I attempt to explain what gives me the stregnth to do what I do; when that thunderbolt of an idea first hit me and inspired me to row across oceans, it filled me with a sense of purpose so strong that it overcame my fears.  Even when boredom, frustration, fatigue or despair threatened to overwhelm me, it was that powerful sense of purpose that kept me going.

  Roz Savage

  Strong, Powerful, Ocean

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• Ironically, often the thing that keeps me from experiencing joy is my preoccupation with self. The very selfishness that keeps me from pouring myself out for the joy of others also keeps me from noticing and delighting in the myriad small gifts God offers each day. This is why Walker Percy describes boredom as "the self stuffed with the self."

  John Ortberg

  Self, Joy, Pouring

  John Ortberg (1997). “The Life You've Always Wanted: Spiritual Disciplines for Ordinary People”, p.64, Harper Collins

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• A man has got to keep his extrication.
  The important thing is not to get bogged down
  In what he has to do to earn a living.

  Robert Frost

  Work, Men, Important

  Robert Frost (1971). “The poetry of Robert Frost”

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• I am still amazed at the amount of Christian charity [Wellesley] stuck us all with, a kind of glazed politeness in the face of boredom and stupidity. Tolerance, in the worst sense of the word. How marvelous it would have been to go to a women's college that encouraged impoliteness, that rewarded aggression, that encouraged argument.

  Nora Ephron

  Christian, College, Stupidity

  Nora Ephron (2012). “Crazy Salad and Scribble Scribble: Some Things About Women and Notes on Media”, p.45, Vintage

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• Most people can't handle boredom. That means they can't stay on one thing until they get good at it. And they wonder why they're unhappy.

  Curtis Jackson

  Mean, People, Unhappy

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• And I, stepping from this skin Of old bandages, boredoms, old faces Step to you from the black car of Lethe, Pure as a baby.

  Sylvia Plath

  Baby, Car, Black

  Sylvia Plath (2010). “Ariel: The Restored Edition”, p.64, Faber & Faber

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

  Bruce Herschensohn

  Sex, Men, Shopping

  Bruce Herschensohn (2000). “The Gods of Antenna”, p.72, iUniverse

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• Banality is like boredom: bored people are boring people, people who think that things are banal are themselves banal. Interesting people can find something interesting in all things.

  Idries Shah

  Thinking, People, Interesting

  Idries Shah (1983). “Reflections”, p.121, Octagon Press Ltd

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• Solitude is used to teach us how to live with other people. Rage is used to show us the infinite value of peace. Boredom is used to underline the importance of adventure & spontaneity. Silence is used to teach us to use words responsibly. Tiredness is used so that we can understand the value of waking up. Illness is used to underline the blessing of good health. Fire is used to teach us about water. Earth is used so that we can understand the value of air. Death is used to show us the importance of life.

  Paulo Coelho

  Adventure, Blessing, Air

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• There's something dangerous about the boredom of teenage girls.

  Megan Abbott

  Girl, Teenage, Dangerous

  "Dare Me". Book by Megan Abbott, 2012.

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