Boredom is a terrible affliction of the soulless.
To be, in a word, unborable. . . . It is the key to modern life. If you are immune to boredom, there is literally nothing you cannot accomplish
Modern man has left the realm of the unknown and the mysterious, and has settled down in the realm of the functional. He is turned is back to the world of the foreboding and the exulting and has welcomed the world of boredom.
Net neutrality: The only two words that promise more boredom in the English language are 'featuring Sting,'
The key is the ability, whether innate or conditioned, to find the other side of the rote, the picayune, the meaningless, the repetitive, the pointlessly complex. To be, in a word, unborable. . . It is the key to modern life. If you are immune to boredom, there is literally nothing you cannot accomplish.
Economics is a subject profoundly conducive to cliche, resonant with boredom. On few topics is an American audience so practiced in turning off its ears and minds. And none can say that the response is ill advised.
According to Gur's theory of boredom, everything that happens in the world today is because of boredom: love, war, inventions, fake fireplaces - ninety-five percent of all that is pure boredom.
There's something dangerous about the boredom of teenage girls.
Punk was a protest against work and against boredom. It was a sign of life, a rant, a scream, a rejection of bourgeois morals. But have things improved since then? Arguably, they've got worse.
There is no lasting happiness outside the prescribed cycle of painful exhaustion and pleasurable regeneration, and whatever throws this cycle out of balance – poverty and misery where exhaustion is followed by wretchedness instead of regeneration, or great riches and an entirely effortless life where boredom takes the place of exhaustion and where the mills of necessity, of consumption and digestion, grind an impotent human body mercilessly and barrenly to death – ruins the elemental happiness that comes from being alive.
What's wrong with being a boring kind of guy?
I love to work in all sorts of different situations. I think you learn a lot, which is why I try not to approach something the same way, because it might not be appropriate, and then you can get lazy just out of boredom. So I love any approach.
Against boredom the gods themselves fight in vain.
My definition of what makes a journey wholly or partially horrible is boredom.
A philistine is habitually bored and looks for things that won't bore him. An artist finds things boring, but is never bored.
An enthusiast may bore others, but he has never a dull moment himself.
Jump out the window if you are the object of passion. Flee it if you feel it. Passion goes, boredom remains.
Norman Mailer described the desire to be cool as a "decision to encourage the psychopath in oneself, to explore that domain of experience where security is boredom and therefore sickness and one exists in the present, in that enormous present which is without past or future, memory or planned intention.
Boredom is a concept that I don't understand.
A man has got to keep his extrication. The important thing is not to get bogged down In what he has to do to earn a living.