#bored

Boredom or discontent is useful to me when I acknowledge it and see clearly my assumption that there's something else I would rather be doing. In this way boredom can act as an invitation to freedom by opening me to new options and thoughts. For example, if I can't change the activity, can I look at it more honestly? ↗

— Hugh Prather

#chances #change #discontent #freedom #change

But I know too that if we ever make a world without shadow, if the chemists and scientists and psychologists succeed in abolishing fear, pain, loneliness, death, some of us will find life so intolerable we will probably blow out our brains out of sheer boredom. ↗

— MacDonald Harris

#darkness #pain #death

There are 6 reasons that a person does anything: Love, faith, greed, boredom, fear... revenge. ↗

— Ally Carter

#faith #fear #greed #love #revenge

My life is very monotonous," the fox said. "I hunt chickens; men hunt me. All the chickens are just alike, and all the men are just alike. And, in consequence, I am a little bored. ↗

— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

#monotony #life

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

— Cecil Beaton

#bore #boredom #crime #first #perhaps

For lack of love one does a million other things. ↗

— Marty Rubin

#busyness #deprivation #love #love

He was prepared to die for it, as one of Baudelaire's dandies might have been prepared to kill himself in order to preserve himself in the condition of a work of art, for he wanted to make this experience a masterpiece of experience which absolutely transcended the everyday. And this would annihilate the effects of the cruel drug, boredom, to which he was addicted although, perhaps, the element of boredom which is implicit in an affair so isolated from the real world was its principle appeal for him. ↗

— Angela Carter

#baudelaire #boredom #love #art

My despair is less despair than boredom and loneliness. ↗

— Anthony Swofford

#despair #loneliness #boredom

You need to let the little things that would ordinarily bore you suddenly thrill you. ↗

— Andy Warhol

#little-things #thrill #boredom

I am never bored; to be bored is an insult to one's self. ↗

— Jules Renard

#boredom