#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

We are almost always bored by just those whom we must not find boring. ↗

— François de La Rochefoucauld

#bores #boring #boredom

What kind of life can you have in a house without books? ↗

— Sherman Alexie

#boredom #dullness #inspiration #life #necessity

The life of the creative man is lead, directed and controlled by boredom. Avoiding boredom is one of our most important purposes. ↗

— Susan Sontag

#boredom #controlled #creative #creative man #directed

Perhaps the world's second worst crime is boredom. The first is being a bore. ↗

— Jean Baudrillard

#bore #boredom #crime #first #perhaps

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

Boredom is rage spread thin. ↗

— Paul Tillich

#rage #spread #thin

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

Long-term boredom can't lead to anything good. ↗

— Nicholas Hoult

#boredom #good #lead #long-term

For boredom speaks the language of time, and it is to teach you the most valuable lesson of your life - the lesson of your utter insignificance. ↗

— Joseph Brodsky

#insignificance #language #lesson #life #most