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Boredom Quotes

Idle people are often bored and bored people, unless they sleep a lot, are cruel. It is not accident that boredom and cruelty are great preoccupations in our time.

Great Time Sleep People Boredom

Clarity keeps you from boredom.

Boredom You Clarity Keeps

The environment in which I studied was so safe, I thought I would die from the boredom of it.

Howard Jacobson

Thought Die Environment Boredom Safe

I can't keep myself from playing roles. The emotionless decadent, looking for diversion from boredom, is a favorite.

Myself Looking Boredom Playing Keep

Boredom is the legitimate kingdom of the philanthropic.

Boredom Kingdom Legitimate

Boredom and sexual desire are a potent and explosive combination, and people will certainly risk their lives to exit a grey and boring life.

Lawrence Osborne

Life People Boredom Desire Boring

I fell asleep reading a dull book and dreamed I kept on reading, so I awoke from sheer boredom.

Book Reading Boredom Dull Dreamed

When we hold back out of laziness, that is when we tie ourselves into knots of boredom.

Walter Annenberg

Boredom Laziness Back Out Tie Hold

One must choose in life between boredom and suffering.

Madame de Stael

Life Suffering Boredom Choose Must

Boredom is a very self-conscious emotion by definition. Interest is not. So you can actually be completely absorbed in something and, at certain points in your development, not even realize that you're into it.

Angela Duckworth

Boredom You Development Emotion Your

Idleness allows you to turn a situation from boredom to pleasure.

Boredom You Situation Pleasure Turn

You have to evolve. Stagnation breeds boredom.

Boredom You Evolve Stagnation Breeds

Don't try to 'fix' the child's boredom - rather, let the child find his or her inner resources.

Child Boredom Find Try Fix Her

Although I did admire David Foster Wallace's final unfinished novel about boredom, I'm no DFW, and I want my books to be exciting, not boring.

Boredom Want Boring Admire Final

In the U.S., you have to be a deviant or die of boredom.

William S. Burroughs

Die Boredom You

Whenever Rod has four of five days off, he'll be bouncing off the walls with boredom.

Penny Lancaster

Walls Boredom Days Off Five Four

TV is no longer the best alternative to boredom. To kids not old enough for Snapchat, music is the best alternative to boredom. For Snapchat users, it's the best alternative to boredom.

Music Best Enough Boredom Old Kids

I was a mindless eater. I ate for comfort. I also ate out of boredom and habit.

Khloe Kardashian

Habit Boredom Comfort Out Mindless

To do the same thing over and over again is not only boredom: it is to be controlled by rather than to control what you do.

Control Boredom You Same Over Again

Primates feel pure, flat immobility as boredom. But dogs feel it as peace.

Elizabeth Marshall Thomas

Peace Feel Boredom Dogs Pure Flat

I've only done a handful of things in my life that have stood out. The rest is just broth: mistakes and boredom.

Life Mistakes Rest My Life Boredom

I spent a fair amount of time in Communist Poland when I was young - my wife was from there - and I had the impression that boredom was one of the things that was undermining that whole society from the inside.

Lawrence Osborne

Time Wife Society Boredom Young

I have no tolerance for boredom. I spend so many hours in the office, and I still love it.

Francisco Costa

Love Tolerance Boredom Office Still

Boredom is the dream bird that hatches the egg of experience. A rustling in the leaves drives him away.

Walter Benjamin

Bird Experience Egg Boredom Dream

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