#boredom

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 #both #depend #fascination #inside

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

— Peter Straub

#boredom #everything #expire #i #out

The truth is that everyone is bored, and devotes himself to cultivating habits. ↗

— Albert Camus

#habits #boredom

Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time; serenity, that nothing is. ↗

— Thomas Szasz

#everything #feeling #nothing #serenity #time

Boredom was my bedmate and it was hogging the sheets. ↗

— Andrew Davidson

#metaphor #boredom

I find her anecdotes more efficacious than sheep-counting, rain on a tin roof, or alanol tablets.... you will find me and Morpheus, off in a corner, necking. ↗

— Dorothy Parker

#counting-sheep #humour #boredom

I have studiously tried to avoid ever using the word 'madness' to describe my condition. Now and again, the word slips out, but I hate it. 'Madness' is too glamorous a term to convey what happens to most people who are losing their minds. That word is too exciting, too literary, too interesting in its connotations, to convey the boredom, the slowness, the dreariness, the dampness of depression. ↗

— Elizabeth Wurtzel

#madness #prozac #boredom

Hear this or not, as you will. Learn it now, or later -- the world has time. Routine, repetition, tedium, monotony, ephemeracy, inconsequence, abstraction, disorder, boredom, angst, ennui -- these are the true hero's enemies, and make no mistake, they are fearsome indeed. For they are real. ↗

— David Foster Wallace

#boredom

What's this about?" "Finally. Interest," was the only response. "If this is one of your tricks..." Like the time Torin had ordered hundreds of blow-up dolls and placed them throughout the fortress, all because Paris had foolishly complained about the lack of female companionship in town. The plastic "ladies" had stared our from every corner, their wide eyes and let-me-suck-you mouths taunting everyone who passed them. Things like that happened when Torin was bored. ↗

— Gena Showalter

#humor #pranks #humor

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