Existential Boredom Quotes

#1. There's nothing like impending death to rouse you from existential boredom.

Roger Ebert

#2. From infinite awareness, something comes forward, a sense of infinite awareness and finite awareness. That perception is the birth of a being.

Frederick Lenz

#3. No single answer can hold the truth of a good heart.

Joan Halifax

#4. There are only so many skaters like Brian Orser. Nobody is going to just step into his shoes.

Kurt Browning

#5. Lovers are like kids; they don't stop until they get what they want.

M.F. Moonzajer

#6. No matter how many people you kill, using a machine gun in battle is not a war crime because it does not cause unnecessary suffering; it simply performs its job horrifyingly well.

Sebastian Junger

#7. We can appreciate but not really understand the medieval town. We cannot comprehend its compactness, the contiguity of all its buildings as a single uninterrupted whole.

Arthur Erickson

#8. And I think of us, all the people, and the masks we wear, the masks we hide behind and the masks that reveal. I imagine people pretending to be what they truly are, and discovering that other people are so much more and so much less than they imagined themselves to be or present themselves as. And

Neil Gaiman

#9. The existential vacuum manifests itself mainly in a state of boredom.

Viktor E. Frankl

#10. I wanted to do pretty much a purely boy story, yes. The girls are kind of the bad guys in 'Marble Season', although that wasn't my intention. It's also a world without adults.

Gilbert Hernandez

#11. We are in a privileged and sometimes happy position. We see a great deal of the world. Our obligation is to pass it on to others.

Margaret Bourke-White

#12. I was always fascinated by diagramming a sentence. Because that is going into a space, going into a world of language.

Vito Acconci