Boredom Quotes - Page 34

• It's not hard to understand why an accomplished director like Gus Van Sant (whose most recent success, Good Will Hunting, gave him mainstream clout) would be interested in making this film. The lure of an exact remake presents a tremendous challenge. Unfortunately, it was undoubtedly a lot more stimulating for Van Sant and his crew to make Psycho than it is for an audience to watch it. Curiosity is going to be one of the primary reasons why people pay money to see this movie; boredom will be the predominant result.

  James Berardinelli

  Hunting, People, Challenges

  "Psycho (United States, 1998)". A movie review, www.reelviews.net. 1998.

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• What strange impulse is it which induces otherwise truthful people to say they like music when they do not, and thus expose themselves to hours of boredom?

  Agnes Repplier

  Music, People, Strange

  Agnes Repplier (1924). “Under dispute”

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• In Madame Bovary Flaubert never allows anything to go on too long; he can suggest years of boredom in a paragraph, capture the essence of a character in a single conversational exchange, or show us the gulf between his soulful heroine and her dull-witted husband in a sentence (and one that, moreover, presages all Emma's later experience of men). (...) This is one of the summits of prose art, and not to know such a masterpiece is to live a diminished life.

  Michael Dirda

  Art, Husband, Character

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• Big book, a big bore.

  Callimachus

  Book, Bigs, Bores

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• Boredom or discontent is useful to me when I acknowledge it and see clearly my assumption that there's something else I would rather be doing. In this way boredom can act as an invitation to freedom by opening me to new options and thoughts. For example, if I can't change the activity, can I look at it more honestly?

  Hugh Prather

  Looks, Way, Example

  Hugh Prather (2009). “Notes to Myself: My Struggle to Become a Person”, p.34, Bantam

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• The function of music is to release us from the boredom of existence.

  Sebastian Horsley

  Release, Function, Existence

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• From every Englishman emanates a kind of gas, the deadly choke-damp of boredom.

  Heinrich Heine

  Insulting, England, Kind

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• Squeeze marriage as much as you like, you will never extract anything from it but fun for bachelors and boredom for husbands.

  Honore de Balzac

  Marriage, Fun, Husband

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• Being a [bank] director is like being a pilot of an aircraft - it's years of boredom and seconds of terror.

  Moira Johnston

  Years, Directors, Banking

  Moira Johnston (2000). “The Tumultuous History of the Bank of America”, p.49, Beard Books

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• There's nothing like impending death to rouse you from existential boredom.

  Roger Ebert

  Existential, Impending Death

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• The two real problems in life are boredom and death.

  Saul Bellow

  Real, Two, Problem

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• One would expect boredom to be a great yawning emotion, but it isn't, of course. It's a small niggling thing.

  Josephine Tey

  Yawning, Emotion, Courses

  Josephine Tey (2013). “The Daughter of Time”, p.16, Simon and Schuster

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• Our culture has become something that is completely and utterly in love with its parent. It's become a notion of boredom that is bought and sold, where nothing will happen except that people will become more and more terrified of tomorrow, because the new continues to look old, and the old will always look cute.

  Malcolm Mclaren

  Cute, People, Parent

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• Idleness or boredom has no place in the life of a Christian.

  Pope Paul VI

  Christian, Idleness

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• I am tired of clinging. Though I cannot see it with my eyes, I trust that the current knows where it is going. I shall let go, and let it take me where it will. Clinging, I shall die of boredom.

  Richard Bach

  Letting Go, Currents, Clinging

  "Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah". Book by Richard Bach, 1977.

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• I have a really low boredom threshold.

  Nick Hornby

  Lows, Threshold

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• Exploitation and manipulation produce boredom and triviality; they cripple man, and all factors that make man into a psychic cripple turn him also into a sadist or a destroyer.

  Erich Fromm

  Mean, Men, Psychics

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• The full-grown modern human being who seeks but refuge finds instead boredom and mental dissolution, unless he can be, even in his withdrawal, creative. He can find the quality of happiness in the strain and travail only of achievement and growth. And he is conscious of touching the highest pinnacle of fulfillment which his life-urges demand when his is consumed in the service of an idea, in the conquest of the goal pursued.

  Robert Briffault

  Life, Ideas, Goal

  Robert Briffault (1969). “Reasons for anger”, Books for Libraries

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• Boredom is a blessing when it leads you to wisdom. And boredom is a curse when it leads you to frustration and depression.

  Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

  Blessing, Frustration, Curse

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• We have a world of pleasure to win, and nothing to lose but boredom.

  Raoul Vaneigem

  Winning, World, Pleasure

  Raoul Vaneigem (1994). “The revolution of everyday life”, Left Bank Distribution

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• There is no such thing on earth as an uninteresting subject; the only thing that can exist is an uninterested person. Nothing is more keenly required than a defence of bores. When Byron divided humanity into the bores and bored, he omitted to notice that the higher qualities exist entirely in the bores, the lower qualities in the bored, among whom he counted himself. The bore, by his starry enthusiasm, his solemn happiness, may, in some sense, have proved himself poetical. The bored has certainly proved himself prosaic.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Humanity, Quality, May

  1905 Heretics, ch.3.

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• Marriage has for women many equivalents of joining a mass movement. It offers them a new purpose in life, a new future and a new identity (a new name). The boredom of spinsters and of women who can no longer find joy and fulfillment in marriage stems from an awareness of a barren, spoiled life. By embracing a holy cause and dedicating their energies and substance to its advancement, they find a new life full of purpose and meaning.

  Eric Hoffer

  Marriage, Names, Joy

  Eric Hoffer (1980). “The True Believer”

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• The danger of the past was that men became slaves. The danger of the future is that men may become robots. True enough, robots do not rebel. But given man's nature, robots cannot live and remain sane, they become ''Golems',' they will destroy their world and themselves because they cannot stand any longer the boredom of a meaningless life.

  Erich Fromm

  Future, Past, Men

  "The Sane Society". Book by Erich Fromm, p. 102, 1955.

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• I suspect that the peer-review system carries a good part of blame for the fact that something like sixty percent or more of journal articles are never quoted (which means leaving no trace on our joint scholarly pursuits), and (in my reception at any rate) the "learned journals" (with a few miraculous exceptions that entail, prominently, TCS) ooze monumental boredom.

  Zygmunt Bauman

  Mean, Leaving, Facts

  Source: www.theoryculturesociety.org

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• Humans struggle to remain attuned to one another - they want to turn away because of fear, or ambition, or boredom, or some lure of the ego. It's difficult. It requires radical vulnerability, radical risk.

  C.E. Morgan

  Struggle, Ambition, Ego

  Source: www.commonwealmagazine.org

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