#bored

To the non-combatants and those on the periphery of action, the war meant only boredom or occasional excitement, but to those who entered the meat grinder itself the war was a netherworld of horror from which escape seemed less and less likely as casualties mounted and the fighting dragged on and on. Time had no meaning, life had no meaning. The fierce struggle for survival in the abyss of Peleliu had eroded the veneer of civilization and made savages of us all. ↗

— Eugene B. Sledge

#horror #time #war #life

Life swings like a pendulum backward and forward between pain and boredom. ↗

— Arthur Schopenhauer

#life #pain #life

The rich fop Francis of Assisi was bored all his life―until he fell in love with Christ and gave all his stuff away and became the troubadour of Lady Poverty. ↗

— Peter Kreeft

#catholicism #christ #christianity #francis-of-assisi #jesus-shock

The one thing for an actor that is complete death is if you're bored, because that boredom will show in your work. ↗

— Benjamin Bratt

#because #bored #boredom #complete #death

You have to be practical. So every time I say, if you want to write a novel you have to be practical, people get bored. They are disappointed. They are expecting a more dynamic, creative, artistic thing to say. What I want to say is: you have to be practical. ↗

— Haruki Murakami

#bored #creative #disappointed #dynamic #every

Nobody is bored when he is trying to make something that is beautiful, or to discover something that is true. ↗

— William Inge

#beauty

It's so easy for me to fall back into depression. I think it comes with having money. I don't have to work. I could be sitting bored and depressed at home with a bag on my head. ↗

— Kelly Osbourne

#bag #bored #comes #could #depressed

I'm sick of very white teeth and lots of gymnasium practice. I'm bored, you know, send in the next one. I wanted a real man that I could believe was my brother, my father, you know, my next-door neighbor - a real person. ↗

— Tim Roth

#believe #bored #brother #could #father

Is it worse to be scared than to be bored, that is the question. ↗

— Gertrude Stein

#question #scared #than #worse

Boredom comes simply from ignorance and lack of imagination. ↗

— Susan Ertz

#anger