716 Quotes About Boredom

Better a one night stand with passion than a lifelong affair with boredom.

In one terrible instant, that terrible thing happened, the single most tragic experience of my, and just about any, childhood: boredom.

My correspondence has certainly the charm of variety, and the humbler are usually the more interesting. This looks like one of those unwelcome social summonses which call upon a man either to be bored or to lie.

You have to be the right type for calm waters. For some, dead calm is inner peace, for others it's the doldrums.

To remain lying on thorns (kanta) is called boredom (kantado).

Life is like a story, when all the resolution is resolved, you heave a sigh of relief.

She now felt an incessant and universal numbness.

Well," he said, "don't you know that there are souls forever in torment? They must have alternate dream and action, the purest passions and the most violent satisfactions, and that way one stumbles into all sorts of whims, of follies.

I need anything, anything that will stop me from living in the kind of death the bourgeois eat, the death called comfort.