A prating barber asked Archelaus how he would be trimmed. He answered “In silence.”
Boredom - Boring Quotes
To do the same thing over and over is not only boredom; it is to be controlled by rather than to control what you do.
Today’s kids learn from the time they are two that, if something bores you, you push the buttons on the remote control. Zap it. Fast forward it. Change the channel. Reset the game. Load new software.
Boredom results from a deficit of sensory responsiveness to the external world.
I fell asleep reading a dull book and dreamed I kept on reading, so I awoke from sheer boredom.
No one really listens to anyone else, and if you try it for a while you will see why.
Miss Searle had always considered boredom an intellectual defeat.
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 […]
