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Tag Name "Boredom" (422)

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Boredom turns to panic if my beloved leaves before the usual time.
Mason Cooley
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Boredom is the specter that haunts children from kindergarten to graduation on every continent.
Amanda Ripley
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Boredom is often the cause of promiscuity, and always its result.
Mignon McLaughlin
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Boredom has an important function, because pushing through it can unleash creativity.
Amy Dickinson
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Boredom is the keynote of poverty — of all its indignities, it is perhaps the hardest of all to live with — for where there is no money there is no change of any kind, not of scene or of routine. To be able to break out of its dark brown sameness.
Moss Hart
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Boredom reigns on all levels. The rain is a welcome change. I have seen the pond swell and the creek surge. I press my palm against the glass, imagining the drops on my skin, imagining where they started out, where they will go, feeling them like a river, rushing, combining, becoming something greater than how they started out.
Mary E. Pearson
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Boredom and fear keep us working and obeying the laws.
Mason Cooley
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Boredom strives to detach, but finds itself stuck.
Mason Cooley
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Boredom makes me sleepy or restless.
Mason Cooley
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boredom has a tendency to bring out the worst in people's faces.
Rona Jaffe
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Boredom, that silent spider, was spinning its web in the darkness in every corner of her heart.
Gustave Flaubert
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Boredom is simply romanticism with a morning-after thirst.
Samuel Hopkins Adams
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Boredom is an instrument of social control. Power is the power to impose boredom, to command stasis, to combine this stasis with anguish. The real tedium, deep tedium, is seasoned with terror and with death.
Saul Bellow
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Boredom and restlessness are deeply related. Whenever you feel boredom, then you feel restlessness. Restlessness is a by-product of boredom.
Rajneesh
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Boredom dismantles the mind, renders it superficial, out at the seams, saps it from within and dislocates it.
Emile M. Cioran
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Boredom between two people doesn't come from being together physically. It comes from being apart mentally and spiritually.
Richard Bach
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Boredom is a blessing when it leads you to wisdom. And boredom is a curse when it leads you to frustration and depression.
Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
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Boredom always precedes a period of great creativity.
Robert M. Pirsig
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Boredom is the beginning of all destruction and everything that is negative.
Robert Plant
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Boredom is vastly underrated. Boredom means that nothing is trying to kill you every day.
Robin Hobb
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Boredom is not in the world, but in the way we see the world.
Paulo Coelho
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Boredom is the legitimate kingdom of the philanthropic.
Virginia Woolf
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Boredom, after all, is a form of criticism.
Wendell Phillips
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Boredom is what you fight. Constant, ever-present boredom. So you learn to look forward to small things. Sunlight glimpsed through a cloud, an extra piece of pie or candy, good thread to sew your blouse, a ribbon to wear in your hair.
Valerie Wilson Wesley
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