#boredom

He was bored now when Emma suddenly began to sob on his breast; and his heart, like the people who can only stand a certain amount of music, became drowsy through indifference to the vibrations of a love whose subtleties he could no longer distinguish. ↗

— Gustave Flaubert

#crying #indifference #love #sadness #love

Worry is like a rocking chair-it keeps you busy but gets you nowhere. ↗

— Katie Dale

#wasting-time #worry #business

Books - the best antidote against the marsh-gas of boredom and vacuity ↗

— George Steiner

#boredom

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

#bored #boredom #cruel #cruelty #great

... millions long for immortality who don't know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon. ↗

— Susan Ertz

#boredom #immortality #life #rain #sunday

You need to let the little things that would ordinarily bore you suddenly thrill you. ↗

— Andy Warhol

#little-things #thrill #boredom

I am never bored; to be bored is an insult to one's self. ↗

— Jules Renard

#boredom

I'm just not having a very good time and I don't have any reason to think it'll get anything but worse. I'm tired. I'm hurt. I'm sad. I feel used. ↗

— Marsha Norman

#ennui #suicide #boredom

Boredom comes from a boring mind. ↗

— Metallica

#boredom

I rushed ahead until another girls' bathroom appeared. I pushed the door open, planning to leave Noah outside while I collected myself. But he followed me in. Two younger girls were standing at te mirror applying lip gloss. "Get out," Noah said to them, his voice laced with boredom. As if they were the ones who didn't belong in the girls' bathroom. ↗

— Michelle Hodkin

#romance #boredom