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.
“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.”
Heraclitus
Boredom, Control, You
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 just the reverse side of fascination: both depend on being outside rather than inside a situation, and one leads to the other.”
Arthur Schopenhauer
Boredom, Depend, Situation
The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom.
“The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom.”
Arthur Schopenhauer
Boredom, Happiness, Pain
Your true traveller finds boredom rather agreeable than painful. It is the symbol of his liberty - his excessive freedom. He accepts his boredom, when it comes, not merely philosophically, but almost with pleasure.
“Your true traveller finds boredom rather agreeable than painful. It is the symbol of his liberty - his excessive freedom. He accepts his boredom, when it...”
Aldous Huxley
Boredom, Freedom, Liberty
You'll find boredom where there is the absence of a good idea.
“You'll find boredom where there is the absence of a good idea.”
Earl Nightingale
Boredom, Find, Good
Jump out the window if you are the object of passion. Flee it if you feel it. Passion goes, boredom remains.
“Jump out the window if you are the object of passion. Flee it if you feel it. Passion goes, boredom remains.”
Coco Chanel
Boredom, Passion, Window
Boredom is the root of all evil - the despairing refusal to be oneself.
“Boredom is the root of all evil - the despairing refusal to be oneself.”
Soren Kierkegaard
Boredom, Evil, Root
“The main thing I got from growing up in a suburb is the boredom you have as a child.”
Alia Shawkat
Boredom, Child, Growing Up
“It's precisely in those moments when I don't know what to do, boredom drives one to try a host of possibilities to either get somewhere or not get anywhere.”
Anish Kapoor
Boredom, Know, Moments
“Boredom: the desire for desires.”
Leo Tolstoy
Boredom, Desire, Desires
“Boredom is usually what spurs either bad decisions or any decision at all.”
Amy Seimetz
Boredom, Decision, Decisions
“Boredom or being sick of what you've done before is a big part of being in a band.”
Alex Kapranos
Boredom, Done, You
“Airline travel is hours of boredom interrupted by moments of stark terror.”
Al Boliska
Boredom, Moments, Travel
“Boredom is... a vital problem for the moralist, since half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it.”
Bertrand Russell
Boredom, Fear, Problem
“I wanted to get that sense of peace and even boredom that comes with long familiarity.”
Debbie Reynolds
Boredom, Long, Peace
“Boredom is the legitimate kingdom of the philanthropic.”
Virginia Woolf
Boredom, Kingdom, Legitimate
“Without lies humanity would perish of despair and boredom.”
Anatole France
Boredom, Humanity, Without
“The presidency has many problems, but boredom is the least of them.”
Richard M. Nixon
Boredom, Problems, Them
“He who seeks rest finds boredom. He who seeks work finds rest.”
Dylan Thomas
Boredom, Rest, Work
“There's a rebirth that goes on with us continuously as human beings. I don't understand, personally, how you can be bored. I can understand how you can be...”
Dustin Hoffman
Boredom, Understand, You
“Isn't history ultimately the result of our fear of boredom?”
Emile M. Cioran
Boredom, Fear, History
“Perhaps the world's second-worst crime is boredom; the first is being a bore.”
Cecil Beaton
Boredom, Crime, World
“I love heights. I love speed. I'm on the verge of being a pyromaniac. Maybe my phobia is boredom.”
Erin Wasson
Boredom, Love, Speed
“Boredom is a concept that I don't understand.”
Christian Louboutin
Boredom, Concept, Understand
“The one thing for an actor that is complete death is if you're bored, because that boredom will show in your work.”
Benjamin Bratt
Boredom, Death, Work
“Primates feel pure, flat immobility as boredom. But dogs feel it as peace.”
Elizabeth Marshall Thomas
Boredom, Feel, Peace
“Is boredom anything less than the sense of one's faculties slowly dying?”
Arthur Helps
Boredom, Dying, Sense
“Something opens our wings. Something makes boredom and hurt disappear. Someone fills the cup in front of us: We taste only sacredness.”
Rumi
Boredom, Hurt, Wings
“The chief product of an automated society is a widespread and deepening sense of boredom.”
C. Northcote Parkinson
Boredom, Product, Society
“I can't keep myself from playing roles. The emotionless decadent, looking for diversion from boredom, is a favorite.”
Ellen Willis
Boredom, Looking, Myself