(147 quotes found)
“Uncertainty and mystery are energies of life. Don't let them scare you unduly, for they keep boredom at bay and spark creativity.”
R. I. Fitzhenry
“There's no excuse to be bored. Sad, yes. Angry, yes. Depressed, yes. Crazy, yes. But there's no excuse for boredom, ever.”
Viggo Mortensen
“A subject for a great poet would be God's boredom after the seventh day of creation.”
Friedrich Nietzsche
“The life of the creative man is lead, directed and controlled by boredom. Avoiding boredom is one of our most important purposes.”
Susan Sontag
“God created woman. And boredom did indeed cease from that moment -- but many other things ceased as well!”
“Work spares us from three evils: boredom, vice, and need”
Voltaire
“I've got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom.”
Thomas Carlyle
“The concept of boredom entails an inability to use up present moments in a personally fulfilling way.”
Wayne Dyer
“Life swings like a pendulum backward and forward between pain and boredom”
Arthur Schopenhauer
“One receives as reward for much ennui, despondency, boredom --such as a solitude without friends, books, duties, passions must bring with it --those quarter-hours of profoundest contemplation within oneself and nature. He who completely entrenches himself against boredom also entrenches himself against himself: he will never get to drink the strongest refreshing draught from his own innermost fountain.”
