#boredom

The Garden En robe de parade. - Samain Like a skein of loose silk blown against a wall She walks by the railing of a path in Kensington Gardens, And she is dying piece-meal of a sort of emotional anaemia. And round about there is a rabble Of the filthy, sturdy, unkillable infants of the very poor. They shall inherit the earth. In her is the end of breeding. Her boredom is exquisite and excessive. She would like some one to speak to her, And is almost afraid that I will commit that indiscretion. ↗

— Ezra Pound

#personae #poem #poetry #boredom

I always think boredom is to some extent the fault of the bored. ↗

— Kate Ross

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Doing anything when you're bored is very very boring. Anyway, doing nothing is the point of being bored. The pleasure of being bored is mooning about and doing nothing. ↗

— Aidan Chambers

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The days hardened with cold and boredom like last year's loaves of bread. One began to cut them with blunt knives without appetite, with a lazy indifference. ↗

— Bruno Schulz

#indifference #boredom

I abhor the idea of a perfect world. It would bore me to tears. ↗

— Shelby Foote

#perfection #utopia #boredom

Before, for me, peace could have been synonymous with boredom. ↗

— Isabelle Adjani

#before #boredom #could #me #peace

... he preferred being stimulated to being bored. ↗

— Ruth Harris

#decades #life-and-living #life

To do the same thing over and over again is not only boredom: it is to be controlled by rather than to control what you do. ↗

— Heraclitus

#boredom #control #controlled #only #over

Long-term boredom can't lead to anything good. ↗

— Nicholas Hoult

#boredom #good #lead #long-term

Your true traveller finds boredom rather agreeable than painful. It is the symbol of his liberty - his excessive freedom. He accepts his boredom, when it comes, not merely philosophically, but almost with pleasure. ↗

— Aldous Huxley

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