For boredom speaks the language of time, and it is to teach you the most valuable lesson of your life - the lesson of your utter insignificance.
Much is forgiven anyone who relieves the desperate boredom of the working press.
Boredom is always counter-revolutionary. Always.
Boredom is the root of all evil - the despairing refusal to be oneself.
The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom.
Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time; serenity, that nothing is.
I wanted to get that sense of peace and even boredom that comes with long familiarity.
The presidency has many problems, but boredom is the least of them.
Perhaps the world's second worst crime is boredom. The first is being a bore.
I did nine episodes of 'John Doe.' I died of boredom.
Who wants a world in which the guarantee that we shall not die of starvation entails the risk of dying of boredom?
It's the boredom that kills you. You read until you're tired of that. You do crossword puzzles until you're tired of that. This is torture. This is mental torture.
I know when I'm working I seldom get into trouble. My educated guess is that boredom has caused most of the problems with Hollywood celebrities.
One should only see a psychiatrist out of boredom.
After I dropped out of college at the age of 19, I became a mortgage broker, and when I went back to school I thought about going into real estate law. I probably would have made a lot more money and died of boredom by now.
The Beatles saved the world from boredom.
There's a rebirth that goes on with us continuously as human beings. I don't understand, personally, how you can be bored. I can understand how you can be depressed, but I just don't understand boredom.
As soon as you set foot on a yacht you belong to some man, not to yourself, and you die of boredom.
I spent a fair amount of time in Communist Poland when I was young - my wife was from there - and I had the impression that boredom was one of the things that was undermining that whole society from the inside.
In order to live free and happily you must sacrifice boredom. It is not always an easy sacrifice.
What Facebook wants to create an association with is every time you're bored, every time you have a few minutes. We know that, psychologically speaking, boredom is painful. Whenever you're feeling bored, whenever you have a few extra minutes, this is a salve for that itch.
Morality is a venereal disease. Its primary stage is called virtue; its secondary stage, boredom; its tertiary stage, syphilis.
Even boredom has its crises.
The life of the creative man is lead, directed and controlled by boredom. Avoiding boredom is one of our most important purposes.
When we hold back out of laziness, that is when we tie ourselves into knots of boredom.
Something opens our wings. Something makes boredom and hurt disappear. Someone fills the cup in front of us: We taste only sacredness.
I don't believe in an afterlife, so I don't have to spend my whole life fearing hell, or fearing heaven even more. For whatever the tortures of hell, I think the boredom of heaven would be even worse.
You'll find boredom where there is the absence of a good idea.
In marketing you must choose between boredom, shouting and seduction. Which do you want?
Boredom, anger, sadness, or fear are not 'yours,' not personal. They are conditions of the human mind. They come and go. Nothing that comes and goes is you.
Boredom is rage spread thin.
How some of the writers I come across get through their books without dying of boredom is beyond me.
Before, for me, peace could have been synonymous with boredom.
They're a redefinition of boredom... the most important thing you need to know about an awards show is where is the nearest smoking opportunity.
Boredom, after all, is a form of criticism.
This is the curse of our age, even the strangest aberrations are no cure for boredom.
