#boredom

And for all the richest and most successful merchants life inevitably became rather dull and niggly, and they began to imagine that this was therefore the fault of the worlds they'd settled on. ↗

— Douglas Adams

#imagination

He was bored now when Emma suddenly began to sob on his breast; and his heart, like the people who can only stand a certain amount of music, became drowsy through indifference to the vibrations of a love whose subtleties he could no longer distinguish. ↗

— Gustave Flaubert

#crying #indifference #love #sadness #love

Worry is like a rocking chair-it keeps you busy but gets you nowhere. ↗

— Katie Dale

#wasting-time #worry #business

We all want to break our orbits, float like a satellite gone wild in space, run the risk of disintegration. We all want to take our lives in our own hands and hurl them out among the stars. ↗

— David Bottoms

#breaking-free #breaking-the-rules #changes #life #new

I always say, 'Books beat boredom,' said Amanda wisely. ↗

— Mo Willems

#libraries #library #literary #obvious #sage-advice

Everything smaller than Heaven bores us because only Heaven is bigger than our hearts. ↗

— Peter Kreeft

#catholicism #christianity #god #hearts #heaven

Idle people are often bored and bored people, unless they sleep a lot, are cruel. It is not accident that boredom and cruelty are great preoccupations in our time. ↗

— Renata Adler

#bored #boredom #cruel #cruelty #great

If you get bored with the person you married for love, there's something wrong with you - not with that person. ↗

— Shahrukh Rafi Khan

#love #marriage #love

Philip Yancey sees our blasé attitude toward the faithfulness of God in the waitstaff At Yellowstone. Even when they are finished their chores, they don't look up and marvel at the geiser going off. After all, they see it so often. ↗

— Philip Yancey

#wonder #worship #attitude

The absence of the will to live is, alas, not sufficient to make one want to die. ↗

— Michel Houellebecq

#death #inspirational #life #misery #death