Quotes and Sayings about Boredom

Only when you're stupid, can life be boring.

Boredom is the beginning of all destruction and everything that is negative.

The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity.

Frustration and boredom are great motivators to seek out other pleasures. Human behavior is quite predictable.

My father used to tell me that boredom indicates the lack of inner ressources.

Beware of monotony; it's the mother of all the deadly sins.

I have a hard time with free time.

I tend to get bored quickly, which means I must be boring.

The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom.

Time goes faster the more hollow it is. Lives with no meaning go straight past you, like trains that don’t stop at your station.

How do you pick up the threads of an old life? How do you go on, when in your heart you begin to understand... there is no going back? There are some things that time cannot mend. Some hurts that go too deep, that have taken hold.

But time is life itself, and life resides in the human heart.

When you give someone your time, you are giving them a portion of your life that you'll never get back. Your time is your life. That is why the greatest gift you can give someone is your time.

Calendars and clocks exist to measure time, but that signifies little because we all know that an hour can seem as eternity or pass in a flash, according to how we spend it.

No amount of money ever bought a second of time.

[Minuet of Forest]
The flow of time is always cruel. Its speed seems different for each person, but no one can change it. A thing that does not change with time is a memory of younger days.

"But don't you think," I persist, "that it's better to be extremely happy for a short while, even if you lose it, than to be just okay for your whole life?"

Brom: "The sands of time cannot be stopped. Years pass whether we want them or not... but we can remember. What has been lost may yet live on in memories. That which you will hear is imperfect and fragmented, yet treasure it, for without you it does not exist. I give you now a memory that has been forgotten, hidden in the dreamy haze that lies behind us."

I rather believe that time is a companion who goes with us on the journey and reminds us to cherish every moment because they'll never come again. What we leave behind is not as important as how we've lived.

Time moves in one direction, memory in another.

Time you enjoy wasting, is not wasted.

"You see, Momo," he told her one day, "it's like this: Sometimes, when you've a very long street ahead of you, you think how terribly long it is and feel sure you'll never get it swept."
He gazed silently into space before continuing.
"And then you start to hurry," he went on. "You work faster and faster, and every time you look up there seems to be just as much left to sweep as before, and you try even harder, and you panic, and in the end you're out of breath and have to stop - and still the street stretches away in front of you. That's not the way to do it."

He pondered a while. Then he said, "You must never think of the whole street at once, understand? You must only concentrate on the next step, the next breath, the next stroke of the broom, and the next, and the next. Nothing else."
Again he paused for thought before adding, "That way you enjoy your work, which is important, because then you make a good job of it. And that's how it ought to be."

We're all going to die, all of us, what a circus! That alone should make us love each other but it doesn't. We are terrorized and flattened by trivialities, we are eaten up by nothing.

Go find something that you haven't done before. Don't do the same thing over and over again.

The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls.

The time to relax is when you don't have time for it.

I began to realize how simple life could be if one had a regular routine to follow with fixed hours, a fixed salary, and very little original thinking to do.

The secret of your success is determined by your daily agenda.

It's cute how I used to think this 'barely holding it together' feeling was temporary.

Tomorrow is gonna be just like today, and I know that because today is just like yesterday.

I'm just looking to get through the day.

Better a happy fool than a wise man unhappy.

Who's the more foolish? The fool or the fool who follows him?

Stairway to Heaven is a nice pleasant, well-meaning naive little song, very English. It's not the definitive Led Zeppelin song. Kashmir is.

Love is making a shot to the knees of a target 120 kilometers away using an Aratech sniper rifle with a tri-light scope.

Everyone gets scared, kid. Without fear, you can't have courage.

Curiosity is not a sin. But we should exercise caution with our curiosity.

That's what they do, don't they? They show you the world, and then they tell you you can't have it.

We all wear masks. We all pretend. Presenting a perfect illusion on the outside, while we desperately try to hide who we are on the inside.

Life is a mystery, after all - frustratingly, wonderfully unfathomable.

If I do not press my claim, my claim will be forgotten. I will not become a page in someone else's history book.

There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.

Old Americana vintage gangster stuff has a fantastical feel; it feels less dirty in a way. It feels like the opera of crime.

My philosophy is: It's none of my business what people say of me and think of me.

Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see.

Sometimes you must hurt in order to know, fall in order to grow, lose in order to gain. Because life's greatest lessons are learned through pain.

Do you know the best thing about broken hearts? They can only really break once the rest is just scratches.

The nurse knew that those who really love, love in silence, with deeds and not with words.

The world will break your heart ten ways to Sunday. That's guaranteed.