Miss Searle had always considered boredom an intellectual defeat.
Boredom - Boring Quotes
When people are bored, it is primarily with their own selves that they are bored.
The capacity of human beings to bore one another seems to be vastly greater than that of any other animals. Some of their most esteemed inventions have no other apparent purpose, for example, the dinner party of more than two, the epic poem, and the science of metaphysics.
Human beings show their superiority to the brutes by their capacity for boredom, though I have sometimes thought in examining the apes at the zoo, that they, perhaps, have the rudiments of this tiresome emotion. However that may be, experience shows that escape from boredom is one of the really powerful desires of almost all […]
God was bored by him.
If you have no goals you will be bored: you will be unhappy because you are empty.
Boredom is a vital problem for the moralist, since at least half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it.
Perhaps no man ever thought a line superfluous when he wrote it. We are seldom tiresome to ourselves.
Happy are the people whose annals are boring to read.
And when they bore me overmuch, I will not shake mine ears, Recalling many thousand such whom I have bored to tears. And when they labor to impress, I will not doubt nor scoff; Since I myself have done no less and – sometimes pulled it off! Yea, as we are and we are not, […]
