Quotes About Dying Of Boredom

#1. Everybody in my world knew that regular work was only another name for being robbed and dying of boredom.

Sarah Waters

#2. How some of the writers I come across get through their books without dying of boredom is beyond me.

William Gaddis

#3. Who wants a world in which the guarantee that we shall not die of starvation entails the risk of dying of boredom?

Raoul Vaneigem

#4. My marriage didn't make me sad, but it didn't make me happy either. My husband and I hardly spoke to each other. This wasn't because we were angry. We had nothing to say. I was dying of boredom.

Marilyn Monroe

#5. Humor and laughter - not necessarily derogatory derision - are my pet tools. This may come from my general philosophy of never taking the world too seriously - for fear of dying of boredom.

Marcel Duchamp

#6. Really, these wizards! You'd think no one had ever had a cold before! Well, what is it?" she asked, hobbling through the bedroom door onto the filthy carpet.
"I'm dying of boredom," Howl said pathetically. "Or maybe just dying.

Diana Wynne Jones

#7. We're dying of boredom, Corporal, that's the problem.' [Blend]
'If boredom was fatal there wouldn't be a soldier alive on this whole world, Blend.' [Picker]

Stephen Erickson

#8. I'm dying of boredom. Or maybe just dying.

Megan Whalen Turner

#9. Boredom is easy. Which is why sadness hides there so readily. But don't be fooled for long. Dying of boredom. There's reason behind that idiom. It'll kill you sure enough.

Adam Haslett

#10. He reminded them of the Three Plagues, of the fact that people in nursing homes are dying of boredom, loneliness, and helplessness and that they wanted to find the cure for these afflictions.

Anonymous

#11. If there was no New Orleans, America would just be a bunch of free people dying of boredom. -Judy Deck in an e-mail sent to Chris Rose

Chris Rose

#12. God gave people 2 ears and 1 mouth because He wants us to listen twice as much as we talk.

Joshua Harris

#13. Sense of our own folly is a great step towards being wise, when it leads us to rely on the wisdom of the Lord.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

#14. Is boredom anything less than the sense of one's faculties slowly dying?

John Berger

#15. I know myself - I cannot just play a cliche. It has to be a character; it has to be written with the complexity of the human being behind. Could be bad, could be good, could be someone we would hate, but still, I need a reason for that influence, and I need to understand why.

Hiam Abbass

#16. Donald Trump is a racist. Donald Trump in fact is making fascist appeals. That's why many self-respecting Republicans are not supporting Donald Trump for president.

Martin O'Malley

#17. The historic beauty of BJJ rests not with its ability to allow a smaller man to maim a larger man, but with its ability to allow any man of any size to survive.

Cameron Conaway

#18. Hung Island, Georgia,

Robyn Peterman

#19. In the United States, there is no end which human will despairs of attaining through the combined power of individuals united in a society.

Alexis De Tocqueville

#20. Above thought is the intellect, which still seeks: it goes about looking, spies out here and there, picks up and drops. But above the intellect that seeks is another intellect which does not seek but stays in its pure, simple being, which is embraced in that light.

Meister Eckhart

#21. A man's respect for law and order exists in precise relationship to the size of his paycheck.

Adam Clayton

#22. She was the scab he couldn't stop picking, the split lip he couldn't stop biting at, the loose thread he couldn't stop tugging

Joe Abercrombie

#23. Retiring and discovering that you no longer have enough energy to enjoy life and dying a few years out of sheer boredom.

Paulo Coelho

#24. Remember, Sir, that [England] began the slave trade!

Benjamin Franklin

#25. To die for the sake of dying - I prefer to die of passion than to die of boredom!

Vincent Van Gogh

#26. In Chicago and across the country, whites looking to achieve the American dream could rely on a legitimate credit system backed by the government. Blacks were herded into the sights of unscrupulous lenders who took them for money and for sport.

Ta-Nehisi Coates

#27. Once I know a song really well, I can then have fun dancing.

Lindsey Stirling