One would expect boredom to be a great yawning emotion, but it isn't, of course. It's a small niggling thing.
i'm a slave to my emotions, to my likes, to my hatred of boredom, to most of my desires
The absence of the will to live is, alas, not sufficient to make one want to die.
The most terrible thing about materialism, even more terrible than its proneness to violence, is its boredom, from which sex alcohol, drugs, all devices for putting out the accusing light of reason and suppressing the unrealizable aspirations of love, offer a prospect of deliverance.
The so-called transcendental meditation is nothing but a psychological tranquilizer. It is nothing—just a tranquilizer. It helps, but it is good for sleep, not for meditation. You can sleep well, a more calm sleep will be there. It is good, but it is not meditation at all. If you repeat a word constantly it creates a certain boredom, and boredom is good for sleep.
In some ways, the great danger for this commodified universe is our boredom with it. . . There is this sort of dialectic that you could tease out, that even in this overdeveloped late-capitalist world, that boredom was still this kind of critical energy that you could work on and try to theorize and then act on, to find other kinds of belonging, other kinds of desire, other kinds of life.
Nature is interested in only two things--to survive and to reproduce one like itself. Anything you superimpose on that, all the cultural input, is responsible for the boredom of man.
Defeat is a thing of weariness, of incoherence, of boredom, and above all futility.
One thing I can say about George. . . he may not be able to keep a job, but he's not boring.
The only unhappiness is a life of boredom.
Too many church services start at eleven sharp and end at twelve dull.
Virtuous people often revenge themselves for the constraints to which they submit by the boredom which they inspire.
As for boredom. . . I notice that it leaves me as soon as I am doing something that has got to be done.
I'm willing to die, but. . . not of boredom.
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.
Hell is more like boredom, or not having enough to do, and too much time to contemplate one's deficiencies.
Miss Searle had always considered boredom an intellectual defeat.
She refused to be bored chiefly because she wasn't boring.
Listen deeply. Meditate on that which is arising. Even if it's boredom or difficulty or maybe a feeling of being stuck, that in itself can be the work for your practice.
He found himself in habiting the vast, empty plateau where most people live, between boredom and contentment.