Langeweile / Boredom Zitate auf Englisch

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How some of the writers I come across get through their books without dying of boredom is beyond me. William Gaddis

I've got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom.

Thomas Carlyle

Variety is more than a means of avoiding boredom, since art is more than an entertainment of the senses.

Rudolf Arnheim

Boredom is just the reverse side of fascination: both depend on being outside rather than inside a situation, and one leads to the other.

Arthur Schopenhauer

Boredom is the legitimate kingdom of the philanthropic.

Virginia Woolf

It is only a step from boredom to disillusionment, which leads naturally to self-pity, which in turn ends in chaos.

Manly Hall

When you pay attention to boredom it gets unbelievably interesting.

Jon Kabat-Zinn

It's precisely in those moments when I don't know what to do, boredom drives one to try a host of possibilities to either get somewhere or not get anywhere.

Anish Kapoor

Perhaps the world's second-worst crime is boredom; the first is being a bore.

Cecil Beaton

If I planned everything out in advance, I'd expire of boredom.

Peter Straub

I think I do have a sort of terrible propensity for boredom and for being bored, even though I am absolutely of the opinion that one shouldn't be bored and that there is no excuse for it and that it is a personal failing.

Geoff Dyer

Boredom is a very self-conscious emotion by definition. Interest is not. So you can actually be completely absorbed in something and, at certain points in your development, not even realize that you're into it.

Angela Duckworth

There's too much down time making movies. That leads to boredom. And that leads to trouble.

Jeremy Renner

As actors, the thing we have to fight, more than even the business part of making movies, is boredom.

Linda Fiorentino

We're not big on irony in Jamaica, sarcasm and double-talk. We tend to say things plainly, sometimes to the point of boredom.

Marlon James

Boredom or being sick of what you've done before is a big part of being in a band.

Alex Kapranos

It is not the simple statement of facts that ushers in freedom; it is the constant repetition of them that has this liberating effect. Tolerance is the result not of enlightenment, but of boredom.

Quentin Crisp

For many of us, eating has surprisingly little to do with hunger. We eat out of boredom, for entertainment, to comfort or reward ourselves. Try to be aware of why you're eating, and ask yourself if you're really hungry - before you eat and then again along the way.

Michael Pollan

It is the unknown that excites the ardor of scholars, who, in the known alone, would shrivel up with boredom.

Wallace Stevens

Idle people are often bored and bored people, unless they sleep a lot, are cruel. It is not accident that boredom and cruelty are great preoccupations in our time.

Renata Adler

I fell asleep reading a dull book and dreamed I kept on reading, so I awoke from sheer boredom.

Heinrich Heine

Airline travel is hours of boredom interrupted by moments of stark terror.

Al Boliska

To do the same thing over and over again is not only boredom: it is to be controlled by rather than to control what you do.

Heraclitus

Since boredom advances and boredom is the root of all evil, no wonder, then, that the world goes backwards, that evil spreads. This can be traced back to the very beginning of the world. The gods were bored; therefore they created human beings.

Soren Kierkegaard

In love there are no vacations. No such thing. Love has to be lived fully with its boredom and all that.

Marguerite Duras

Jump out the window if you are the object of passion. Flee it if you feel it. Passion goes, boredom remains.

Coco Chanel

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.

John Kenneth Galbraith

Boredom is a fearsome prospect. There's a limit to the number of cars and microwaves you can buy. What do you do then?

J. G. Ballard

There isn't much of a music scene in Hermann, unless you like polka. But the landscape I grew up in is a part of me. I spent a lot of time in the woods doing a lot of nothing to break the boredom.

Nathaniel Rateliff

Miss Searle had always considered boredom an intellectual defeat.

Mary Renault

Sooner barbarity than boredom.

Theophile Gautier

I have a very low tolerance for boredom and often think I would have missed out on books entirely if I'd grown up in the Internet and video game age. Now I enjoy books for people of all ages, including children.

Rick Yancey

A subject for a great poet would be God's boredom after the seventh day of creation.

Friedrich Nietzsche

He who seeks rest finds boredom. He who seeks work finds rest.

Dylan Thomas

Our only competition in the theater is boredom, because if I'm bored with a play, if I'm revolted by a play on stage, with the Broadway prices, especially today, I'm going to walk out and not come back and pay that price again.

Jerome Lawrence

TV is no longer the best alternative to boredom. To kids not old enough for Snapchat, music is the best alternative to boredom. For Snapchat users, it's the best alternative to boredom.

Mark Cuban

Only the most acute and active animals are capable of boredom. - A theme for a great poet would be God's boredom on the seventh day of creation.

Lewis Cass