#boredom

I really think I write about everyday life. I don't think I'm quite as odd as others say I am. Life is intrinsically, well, boring and dangerous at the same time. At any given moment the floor may open up. Of course, it almost never does; that's what makes it so boring. ↗

— Edward Gorey

#ennui #life #life

Before, for me, peace could have been synonymous with boredom. ↗

— Isabelle Adjani

#before #boredom #could #me #peace

As actors, the thing we have to fight, more than even the business part of making movies, is boredom. ↗

— Linda Fiorentino

#business #even #fight #making #more

There's a rebirth that goes on with us continuously as human beings. I don't understand, personally, how you can be bored. I can understand how you can be depressed, but I just don't understand boredom. ↗

— Dustin Hoffman

#bored #boredom #continuously #depressed #goes

Your true traveller finds boredom rather agreeable than painful. It is the symbol of his liberty - his excessive freedom. He accepts his boredom, when it comes, not merely philosophically, but almost with pleasure. ↗

— Aldous Huxley

#agreeable #almost #boredom #comes #excessive

Only the most acute and active animals are capable of boredom. - A theme for a great poet would be God's boredom on the seventh day of creation. ↗

— Lewis Cass

#acute #boredom #capable #creation #day

Even boredom has its crises. ↗

— Mason Cooley

#crises #even

Without lies humanity would perish of despair and boredom. ↗

— Anatole France

#despair #humanity #lies #perish #without

Economics is a subject profoundly conducive to cliche, resonant with boredom. On few topics is an American audience so practiced in turning off its ears and minds. And none can say that the response is ill advised. ↗

— John Kenneth Galbraith

#american #american audience #audience #boredom #cliche

A subject for a great poet would be God's boredom after the seventh day of creation. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

#boredom #creation #day #god #great