Boredom And Suffering Quotes

#1. I look forward to a future of boredom and suffering, since I'm too cowardly to put an end to my days. I'll just go on: clubbing, snorting, drinking and persecuting the fools of the world.

Lolita Pille

#2. One must, in one's life, make a choice between boredom and suffering.

Madame De Stael

#3. One must choose in life between boredom and suffering.

Madame De Stael

#4. One of the worst forms of mental suffering is boredom, not knowing what to do with oneself and one's life. Even if man had no monetary, or any other reward, he would be eager to spend his energy in some meaningful way because he could not stand the boredom which inactivity produces.

Erich Fromm

#5. Above all, we cannot afford not to live in the present. He is blessed over all mortals who loses no moment of the passing life in remembering the past.

Henry David Thoreau

#6. For she was a creature of odd whims and unsatisfied tendencies.

D.H. Lawrence

#7. The pendulum oscillates between these two terms: Suffering-that opens a window on the real and is the main condition of the artistic experience, and Boredom ... that must be considered as the most tolerable because the most durable of human evils.

Samuel Beckett

#8. For some reason when I write in cursive, it's easier and flows better for me to read that when I print.

Ashley Scott

#9. There is something more terrible than a hell of suffering
a hell of boredom.

Victor Hugo

#10. I mean there are many people who have endorsed me that I agree with on some things and not others.

Carly Fiorina

#11. I want to open myself ... I want the light of God, I want the sweet love of Jesus. I danced for the Devil; I saw him, I wrote in his book; I go back to Jesus; I kiss His hand. I saw Sarah Good with the Devil. I saw Goody Osburn with the Devil. I saw Bridget Bishop with the Devil!

Abigail Williams

#12. I would love to rent a little cottage or cabin in Colorado and learn to ski or snowboard. And on the warmer side, I also want to rent a house in Hawaii and learn to surf!

Karlie Kloss

#13. With so many forty- and fifty something mums and dads in Converse stalking the streets, I can see why there's a slew of books about the menopause and middle age, the most recent addition being David Bainbridge's plucky, glass-half-full meditation or, as he calls it, 'natural history.'

Rachel Johnson

#14. Everyone rushes his life on, and suffers from a yearning for the future and a boredom with the present. But that man who devotes every hour to his own needs, who plans every day as if it were his last, neither longs for nor fears tomorrow.

Seneca The Younger

#15. Even the rich aren't often happy. Their wealth is at best only a temporary distraction. It doesn't make them immune to emotional and mental suffering, or to disease and death. They too must deal with loneliness, the deaths of loved ones and the frustrations and boredom of old age.

Frederick Lenz

#16. Maybe not getting what she wanted gave her everything she wanted after all.

Jen Calonita

#17. It is possible to conceive of something even more terrible than a hell of suffering, and that is a hell of boredom.

Victor Hugo

#18. I've been a longtime advocate of farmworker rights.

Eva Longoria

#19. Beneath this mask of selfish tranquility nothing exists except bitterness and boredom. I am one of those whom suffering has made empty and frivilous: each night in my dreams I pull the scab off a wound; each day, vacuous and habit ridden, I let it reform.

Cyril Connolly

#20. Build us a bridge to where you are.

Lin-Manuel Miranda

#21. In my life, I had known suffering, oppression, anxiety; I had never known boredom. I could see no objection to the endless, imbecile repetition of sameness.

Michel Houellebecq

#22. Only the dead are truly smart, truly cool. Nothing touches them. While I live, however, I side with bumbling suffering crooked life, with anger rather than boredom, with sweet lust, hunger & carelessness ... against the icy avant-guard & its fashionable premonitions of the sepulcher.

Hakim Bey

#23. If you're driving your car and someone winds the window down and gives you the finger and calls you an asshole, instead of giving him the finger back and calling him an asshole back, you just pull a funny face, and he doesn't know how to react to that, because you're using different rules.

Steve Coogan