Quotes: boredom
Quotes 1 till 15 of 46.
-
By his very success in inventing labor-saving devices, modern man has manufactured an abyss of boredom that only the privileged classes in earlier civilizations have ever fathomed.
-
Against boredom the gods themselves fight in vain.
-
Airline travel is hours of boredom interrupted by moments of stark terror.
-
Boredom comes simply from ignorance and lack of imagination.
Source: Anger in the Sky
-
Boredom is a vital problem for the moralist, since at least half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it.
-
Boredom is always counter-revolutionary. Always.
-
Boredom is just the reverse side of fascination: both depend on being outside rather than inside a situation, and one leads to the other.
-
Boredom is like a pitiless zooming in on the epidermis of time. Every instant is dilated and magnified like the pores of the face.
-
Boredom is the dream bird that hatches the egg of experience. A rustling in the leaves drives him away.
-
Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time; serenity, that nothing is.
-
Boredom is the legitimate kingdom of the philanthropic.
-
Boredom is the legitimate kingdom of the philanthropic.
-
Boredom is the root of all evil - the despairing refusal to be oneself.
-
Boredom is therefore a vital problem for the moralist, since at least half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it.
Source: The Conquest of Happiness (1930)
-
Boredom: the desire for desires.
