Boredom Quotes - Page 12

• Utopia was here at last: its novelty had not yet been assailed by the supreme enemy of a ll Utopias - boredom.

  Arthur C. Clarke

  Enemy, Lasts, Novelty

  Arthur C. Clarke (2012). “Childhood’s End”, p.80, RosettaBooks

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• Cuando me aburro de mí mismo, intento encontrar a alguien que me escuche.

  Mason Cooley

  Bored, Trying, Listen To Me

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• A strange effect of marriage, such as the nineteenth century has made it! The boredom of married life inevitably destroys love, when love has preceded marriage. And yet, as a philosopher has observed, it speedily brings about, among people who are rich enough not to have to work, an intense boredom with all quiet forms of enjoyment. And it is only dried up hearts, among women, that it does not predispose to love.

  Stendhal

  Marriage, Heart, People

  Stendhal (2016). “The Red and the Black: World Classics”, p.168, World Classic

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• Conversationis like the table of contents of a dull book.... All the greatest subjects of human thought are proudly displayedin it. Listen to it for three minutes, and you ask yourself which is more striking, the emphasis of the speaker or his shocking ignorance.

  Stendhal

  Book, Ignorance, Thinking

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• Only now do I understand the war against boredom, the lost cause of empty hours, of empty days and nights.

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  War, Night, Causes

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• These are the Seven Deadly Sins: Avarice, Envy, Pride, Gluttony, Lust, Anger, Sloth. These are the seven deadly sins: venality, paranoia, insecurity, excess, carnality, contempt, boredom.

  Martin Amis

  Pride, Envy, Insecurity

  Martin Amis (1981). “Other people: a mystery story”, Jonathan Cape

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• Enjoyment appears at the boundary between boredom and anxiety, when the challenges are just balanced with the person's capacity to act.

  Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

  Positivity, Anxiety, Challenges

  Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi (2001). "Flow: la psicología de la experiencia óptima".

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• He was a volatile mixture of confidence and vulnerability. He could deliver extended monologues on professional matters, then promptly stop in his tracks to peer inquisitively into his guest's eyes for signs of boredom or mockery, being intelligent enough to be unable fully to believe in his own claims to significance. He might, in a past life, have been a particularly canny and sharp-tongued royal advisor.

  Alain de Botton

  Believe, Eye, Intelligent

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• Me invade una extraña melancolía a la que vacilo en dar el grave y hermoso nombre de pena. La idea del dolor siempre me ha atraído, pero ahora casi me avergüenzo de su completo egoísmo. He conocido el aburrimiento, el arrepentimiento y, ocasionalmente, el remordimiento, pero nunca la tristeza. Hoy me envuelve como una red de seda, enervante y suave, y me distingue de todos los demás.

  Françoise Sagan

  Triste, Hermoso, Arrepentido

  FRANCOISE SAGAN (1955). "BONOUR TRISTESSE"

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• I suppose you could call me...Soot," said the thing. "Yes...Soot. I have breathed it, lived in it, and eaten it for so long that it is a fitting name." "Eaten it?" asked Suzy. "Why eat soot?" "Boredom," said Soot.

  Garth Nix

  Names, Long, Fitting

  Garth Nix (2010). “The Keys to the Kingdom #2: Grim Tuesday”, p.170, Scholastic Inc.

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• Ennui is the disease of hearts without feeling, and of minds without resources.

  Señora Roland

  Heart, Feelings, Mind

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• Sociopaths are not inhibited by the notion that it's wrong to be addicted, or wrong to buy illegal drugs. Also, drinking or taking drugs can be a lot of fun, and even if it's not, it can dull that painful boredom for a while. So can certain other things, like taking risks, and particularly if you take a risk-averse person and you can manipulate him or her into taking risks, that's really fun.

  Martha Stout

  Fun, Drinking, Drug

  Fuente: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• El aburrimiento y la fatiga son grandes fuerzas históricas.

  Jacques Barzun

  Historical, Force, Fatigue

  "The age of entropy" by Stephen Moss, www.theguardian.com. March 2, 2001.

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• The gods were bored and so they created man. Adam was bored because he was alone, so Eve was created. Thus boredom entered the world, and increased in proportion to the increase in population. Adam was bored alone, then Adam and Eve were bored together; them Adam and Eve and Cain and Abel were bored en famille; then the population of the world increased, and the people were bored en masse.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Men, People, Together

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• The merely well-informed man is the most useless bore on God's earth.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Men, Useless, Earth

  Alfred North Whitehead (1967). “Aims of Education”, p.1, Simon and Schuster

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• En cuanto a Estados Unidos, es el fruto ideal de todas sus esperanzas y reformas juveniles. Todo el mundo es bastante decente, respetable, doméstico, burgués, de clase media y aburrido. No hay absolutamente nada que censurar, excepto que es un aburrimiento.

  Henry Adams

  Class, America, Reform

  Henry Adams, Jacob Clavner Levenson, Ernest Samuels, Charles Vandersee (1982). "The Letters of Henry Adams", p.200, Harvard University Press

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• Una cosa es cierta: las artes te mantienen vivo. Estimulan, animan, desafían y, sobre todo, garantizan un futuro libre de aburrimiento. Permiten crecer, e incluso lo exigen, en esa etapa de la vida que llamamos madurez, pero en la que con demasiada frecuencia entramos con una fe infantil en que lo que aprendimos en la juventud es suficiente sustento para los años en los que la mayoría de los hombres están mentalmente hambrientos pero no lo admiten, o en los que son propensos a calmar su hambre con los sobornos de la autocomplacencia, la seguridad y la garantía de la muerte.

  Vincent Price

  Art, Maturity, Men

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• One thing I can say about George... he may not be able to keep a job, but he's not boring.

  Barbara Bush

  Jobs, May, Able

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• ...to experience the reality was to suffer a boredom as endless as the illness itself...the boredom of insanity was a great desert, so great that anyone's violence or agony seemed an oasis, and the brief companionship seemed like a rain in the desert that was numbered and counted and remembered long after it was gone.

  Joanne Greenberg

  Rain, Reality, Oasis

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• Que la vida humana debe ser una especie de error queda suficientemente demostrado por la simple observación de que el hombre es un compuesto de necesidades difíciles de satisfacer; que su satisfacción no consigue otra cosa que un estado indoloro en el que sólo se entrega al aburrimiento. ...

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Error, Simple, Hombres

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2004). "Sobre el sufrimiento del mundo", p. 22, Penguin UK.

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• Boredom forces you to ring people you haven’t seen for eighteen years and halfway through the conversation you remember why you left it so long. Boredom means you start to read not only mail-order catalogues but also the advertising inserts that fall on the floor. Boredom gives you half a mind to get a gun and go berserk in the local shopping centre, and you know where this is going. Eventually, boredom means you will take up golf.

  Jeremy Clarkson

  Fall, Mean, Golf

  Jeremy Clarkson (2004). "El mundo según Clarkson

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• I am bored with gabbers and their gab; my soul abhors them. . . . Is there any place where there is no traffic in empty talk? Is there on this earth one who does not worship himself talking?

  Khalil Gibran

  Talking, Soul, Doe

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• We come from a long line of people who live to read boring texts – I think it may be why we all die young. Complete boredom. (Geary)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Pensar, Largo, Gente

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2007). “The Dream-Hunter”, p.193, Macmillan

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• El aburrimiento inexorable que está en el centro de la vida.

  Jacques-Benigne Bossuet

  Life, Inexorable, Core

  "A Book of French Quotations" edited by Norbert Guterman, 1963.

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• The average man gets his living by such depressing devices that boredom becomes a sort of natural state to him.

  H. L. Mencken

  Life, Depressing, Men

  H. L. Mencken (2015). “In Defense of Women: Human Sexuality”, p.49, 谷月社

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