Art makes you reinvent the wheel with regularity. If you don't, art gets bored and slips away.
Against boredom the gods themselves fight in vain.
Good digestions, the gray monotony of provincial life, and the boredom-ah the soul-destroying boredom-of long days of mild content.
I always say, 'Books beat boredom,' said Amanda wisely.
You ought not to be ashamed of being bored. What you ought to be ashamed of is being boring.
Boredom is a mask frustration wears.
The prospect of being pleased tomorrow will never console me for the boredom of today.
In other centuries, human beings wanted to be saved, or improved, or freed, or educated. But in our century, they want to be entertained. The great fear is not of disease or death, but of boredom. A sense of time on our hands, a sense of nothing to do. A sense that we are not amused.
We pay for security with boredom, for adventure with bother.
My definition of what makes a journey wholly or partially horrible is boredom.
We choose mania over boredom every time.
The concept of boredom entails an inability to use up present moments in a personally fulfilling way.
If you want to cure boredom, be curious. If you're curious, nothing is a chore; it's automatic - you want to study. Cultivate curiosity, and life becomes an unending study of joy.
Boredom is the deadliest poison.
It's all there-the boredom, the devotion, the horror and even the humor in an industrial war fought on a global scale that we'll never see again. Unit histories just do not get any better.
What's the use of talking? You can see for yourself that this is a barbarous country; the people have no morals; and the boredom!
I'm something that I used to be. I'm never where I feel I am, and if I seek myself, I don't know who's seeking me. My boredom with everything has numbed me. I feel banished from my soul.
A bore is someone who deprives you of solitude without providing you with company.
Boredom between two people doesn't come from being together physically. It comes from being apart mentally and spiritually.
The reason we'd stopped was that the buffet car was on fire, that was the reason we stopped. One of the giant biscuits spontaneously combusted out of boredom. Whoever was charged with making the announcement momentarily lost all sense of procedure and we got this tantalizing glimpse into the chaos on the trains, and all we could hear was (bangs on microphone) "Gary, it's burning, what we gonna do?!" And everyone on the carriage just cheered, "Hooray! We're rubbish!"