#bored

Most of life is so dull that there is nothing to be said about it, and the books and talk that would describe it as interesting are obliged to exaggerate, in the hope of justifying their own existence. Inside its cocoon of work or social obligation, the human spirit slumbers for the most part, registering the distinction between pleasure and pain, but not nearly as alert as we pretend. ↗

— E.M. Forster

#life-philosophy #life

There are no uninteresting things, only uninterested people. ↗

— G.K. Chesterton

#human-nature #ignorance #nature

The fancies that take their monstrous birth from the spinelessness and boredom of usurped wealth bring in their wake every defect ... and though rich men's crimes escape the law, protected as they are by the cowardice of governments and people, Nature, more real than society, sets her anarchic example by abandoning the wretched time servers of Capital to the shame and madness of the worst aberrations. ↗

— Jean Lorrain

#cowardice #decadence #government #law #nature

The glance embroiders in joy, knits in pain, and sews in boredom. When indifferent, the eye takes stills, when interested, movies. Laughter is regional: a smile extends over the whole face. ↗

— Malcolm De Chazal

#eye #joy #laughter #pain #smile

The ear tends to be lazy, craves the familiar and is shocked by the unexpected; the eye, on the other hand, tends to be impatient, craves the novel and is bored by repetition. ↗

— W. H. Auden

#craves #ear #eye #familiar #hand

I just get really bored with sticking to the norm and having the proper conservative image. That's just so not me. ↗

— Christina Aguilera

#conservative #get #having #i #image

When we hold back out of laziness, that is when we tie ourselves into knots of boredom. ↗

— Walter Annenberg

#boredom #hold #into #knots #laziness

I wanted to make good records. But my problem is I've got a low boredom threshold, so I wanted it to look and sound different with each album, which is really tantamount to suicide, cause people lose it, they lose it - they say: 'I like that, and that's not this.' ↗

— Adam Ant

#boredom #cause #different #each #good

Variety is more than a means of avoiding boredom, since art is more than an entertainment of the senses. ↗

— Rudolf Arnheim

#avoiding #boredom #entertainment #means #more

I don't believe in an afterlife, so I don't have to spend my whole life fearing hell, or fearing heaven even more. For whatever the tortures of hell, I think the boredom of heaven would be even worse. ↗

— Isaac Asimov

#believe #boredom #even #even worse #fearing