#boredom

It's the boredom that kills you. You read until you're tired of that. You do crossword puzzles until you're tired of that. This is torture. This is mental torture. ↗

— Jack Kevorkian

#crossword #kills #mental #puzzles #read

Teens think listening to music helps them concentrate. It doesn't. It relieves them of the boredom that concentration on homework induces. ↗

— Marilyn vos Savant

#concentrate #concentration #helps #homework #induces

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

Virtuous people often revenge themselves for the constraints to which they submit by the boredom which they inspire. ↗

— Confucius

#constraints #inspire #often #people #revenge

Art has something to do with beauty. The act of creating beauty pulls the portion of your soul to the surface that is true to the way you were created. ↗

— Timothy Simpson

#beauty #boredom-to-brilliance #creative-process #timothy-simpson #art

There's no excuse to be bored. Sad, yes. Angry, yes. Depressed, yes. Crazy, yes. But there's no excuse for boredom, ever. ↗

— Viggo Mortensen

#bored #boredom #crazy #depressed #ever

I've been able to sleep with my eyes open ever since I started watching baseball. ↗

— Jarod Kintz

#boredom #boring #sleep #baseball

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