(147 quotes found)
“Boredom is just the reverse side of fascination: both depend on being outside rather than inside a situation, and one leads to the other.On Photography”
Susan Sontag
“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
“The essence of life is the smile of round female bottoms, under the shadow of cosmic boredom.”
Guy de Maupassant
“The laws that keep us safe, these same laws condemn us to boredom.”
Chuck Palahniuk
“The laws that keep us safe, these same laws condemn us to boredom. without access to true chaos, we'll never have true peace. unless everything can get worse, it won't get any better.”
“Racing is 99 per cent boredom and 1 per cent terror.”
Geoff Brabham
“Work banishes those three great evils: boredom, vice and poverty.”
Voltaire
“Boredom is the root of all evil - the despairing refusal to be oneself.”
Soren Kierkegaard
“Boredom is a self-inflicted insult.”
Bill Purdin
“Probably the difference between man and the monkeys is that the monkeys are merely bored, while man has boredom plus imagination.”
Lyn Yutang
