Boredom: the desire for desires.
- Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy
In order to live free and happily you must sacrifice boredom. It is not always an easy sacrifice.
- Richard Bach
It is not the simple statement of facts that ushers in freedom; it is the constant repetition of them that has this liberating effect. Tolerance is the result not of enlightenment, but of boredom.
- Quentin Crisp
For all the boredom the straight life brings, it’s not too bad.
- Gus Van Sant
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
Life swings like a pendulum backward and forward between pain and boredom.
- Arthur Schopenhauer
All man’s troubles come from not knowing how to sit still in one room.
- Blaise Pascal
Before, for me, peace could have been synonymous with boredom.
- Isabelle Adjani