#bored

Life has been reduced to a series of long periods of boredom in the office punctuated by high-octane “experiences” which you can rack up on your list of things to do before you die. That’s not really living: that is slavery with the occasional circus thrown in. ↗

— Tom Hodgkinson

#life #slavery #experience

Good-bye. I am leaving because I am bored. ↗

— George Sanders

#because #bored #good-bye #i #i am

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

— Sherman Alexie

#boredom #dullness #inspiration #life #necessity

Do you realise that people die of boredom in London suburbs? It's the second biggest cause of death amongs the English in general. Sheer boredom... ↗

— Alexander McCall Smith

#death #england #london #suburbia #death

Life is for living and working at. If you find anything or anybody a bore, the fault is in yourself. ↗

— Elizabeth I Tudor

#living #working #life

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

I started to get bored with that stuff about only drawing men and I've taken it out of the slideshow. ↗

— Alison Bechdel

#bored #drawing #get #i #men

At first I didn't know if I wanted to do TV again. I can get bored quickly. ↗

— Maria Bello

#bored #first #get #i #i can

The most total opposite of pleasure is not pain but boredom, for we are willing to risk pain to make a boring life interesting. ↗

— Peter Kreeft

#catholicism #christianity #jesus-shock #philosophy #pleasure