Passion goes, Boredom remains.
the calm of a place like Bellwood is the peace of death without the hope of resurrection.
Boredom is the most horrible of wolves.
I’m very interested in sublimation. I love the way Francis Bacon talked about the grin without the cat, the sensation without the boredom of its conveyance… I’ve always wanted to be able to convey figurative imagery in a kind of shorthand, to get it across in as direct a way as possible. I want there to be a human presence without having to depict it in full.
He doesn't have demons. He's not Batman, he doesn't struggle with inner turmoil. The nature of this character is that he puts himself last and helps the common good. So he could easily slip into a world of boredom, The blessing and curse of Captain America is that he doesn't have that fancy an ability. He doesn't live in another world, or turn green. He doesn't have bells and whistles, he doesn't shoot missiles. He punches and kicks.
Education must enable young people to effect what they have recognized to be right, despite hardships, despite dangers, despite inner skepticism, despite boredom, and despite mockery from the world. . . .
Speak on, but be not over-tedious.
The existential vacuum manifests itself mainly in a state of boredom.
I see the children with their boredom and their vacant stares.
The usual trouble with volunteers is not killing them with overwork, but simply boring them to death.
As actors, the thing we have to fight, more than even the business part of making movies, is boredom.
A subject for a great poet would be God's boredom after the seventh day of creation.
I am unpacking my library. Yes I am. The books are not yet on the shelves, not yet touched by the mild boredom of order.
Martin in particular concluded that man was born to live either in the convulsions of misery, or in the lethargy of boredom.
Boredom can be a lethal thing on a small island.
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.
Happiness is fugitive; dissatisfaction and boredom are real.
There are people who think death a fate worse than boredom.
Nothing is so intolerable to man as being fully at rest, without passion, without business, without entertainment, without care. It is then that he recognizes that he is empty, insufficient, dependent, ineffectual. From the depths of his soul now comes at once boredom, gloom, sorrow, chagrin, resentment and despair.
Boredom, that silent spider, was spinning its web in the darkness in every corner of her heart.