716 Quotes About Boredom

When in doubt, stay silent. People can't tell if you're plotting a nuclear war or just bored.

Something more terrible than a hell where one suffers may be imagined, and that is a hell where one is bored.

Boredom is not far from bliss: it is bliss seen from the shores of pleasure.

Wouldn't it help you to realize that you really do live in an epic if your life had a soundtrack?

Boredom is your soul's way of telling you to step up and do what you were born to.

Sometimes what we lack is the thrill of anticipation or the delay of gratification. We enjoy things far more when we've really desired them but had to wait for them. The real value is found in our self control and patience, which allows us to delay gratification and build anticipation. Letting desire build is an abstract way to achieve balance and moderation in your life... Moderation just may be the answer to boredom - go figure! -- pg 145-146

Espere" in Spanish, is the one word covering two meanings: "waiting" and "hoping". If life, however, offers no expectation or prospect, waiting represents time "wasted”. Waiting needs a future. If not, time is condemned to be "killed". In the event that we are lost in a gap of boredom and despair, we are driven back in a vacuum of senselessness and deadlocked in a point of nothingness. We are, so therefore, bound to watch the agony of "time". ("Waiting for a place behind the geraniums " )

Life is just so interesting and complicated and beautiful. Every day, every interaction is different. There’s so much floating around that I would find it really hard to get bored. I’m interested in creating in some way or another, whether it’s photography or writing or just walking through the world.

Grandchildren are their grandparents' toys.