#boredom

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... he preferred being stimulated to being bored.


Ruth Harris


#decades #life-and-living #life

The Beatles saved the world from boredom.


George Harrison


#boredom #saved #world

Boredom is the fear of self.


Marie Joséphine de Suin


#inspiration #inspirational

It's precisely in those moments when I don't know what to do, boredom drives one to try a host of possibilities to either get somewhere or not get anywhere.


Anish Kapoor


#boredom #drives #either #get #host

Is boredom anything less than the sense of one's faculties slowly dying?


Arthur Helps


#boredom #dying #faculties #less #sense

This is the kind of paradox, I think, of what it is to be a halfway intelligent American right now, and probably also a Western European, is that there are things we know are right, and good, and would be better for us to do, but constantly it's like "Yeah, but, you know, it's so much funnier and nicer to go do something else." and "Who cares?" and "It's all bullshit anyway.


David Foster Wallace


#apathy #boredom #bullshit #europeans #goodness

Charles' conversation was as flat as a street pavement, on which everybody's ideas trudged past, in their workday dress, provoking no emotion, no laughter, no dreams. At Rouen, he said, he had never had any desire to go and see a Paris company at the theatre. He couldn't swim, or fence, or fire a pistol, and was unable to explain a riding term she came across in a novel one day. Wheras a man, surely, should know about everything; excel in a multitude of activities, introduce you to passion in all its force, to life in all its grace, initiate you in all mysteries! But this one had nothing to teach; knew nothing, wanted nothing. He thought she was unhappy; and she hated him for that placid immobility, that stolid serenity of his, for that very happiness which she herself brought him.


Gustave Flaubert


#contentment #static #dreams

Who wants a world in which the guarantee that we shall not die of starvation entails the risk of dying of boredom?


Raoul Vaneigem


#die #dying #entails #guarantee #risk

Discussing how old you are is the temple of boredom.


Ruth Gordon


#discussing #how #old #temple #you

Boredom or being sick of what you've done before is a big part of being in a band.


Alex Kapranos


#before #being #big #boredom #done