Pastoral Resources

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.

Boredom is always counter-revolutionary. Always.

In love there are no vacations. No such thing. Love has to be lived fully with its boredom and all that.

As actors, the thing we have to fight, more than even the business part of making movies, is boredom.

A bore is a person who opens his mouth and puts his feats in it.

Without lies humanity would perish of despair and boredom.

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

Economics is a subject profoundly conducive to cliche, resonant with boredom. On few topics is an American audience so practiced in turning off its ears and minds. And none can say that the response is ill advised.

Running through things because you are familiar with them, breeds routine and this is the seed of boredom.

Sooner barbarity than boredom.

Discussing how old you are is the temple of boredom.

It is only a step from boredom to disillusionment, which leads naturally to self-pity, which in turn ends in chaos.

The Beatles saved the world from boredom.

I fell asleep reading a dull book and dreamed I kept on reading, so I awoke from sheer boredom.

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

There's a rebirth that goes on with us continuously as human beings. I don't understand, personally, how you can be bored. I can understand how you can be depressed, but I just don't understand boredom.

Your true traveller finds boredom rather agreeable than painful. It is the symbol of his liberty - his excessive freedom. He accepts his boredom, when it comes, not merely philosophically, but almost with pleasure.

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.

It's the boredom that kills you. You read until you're tired of that. You do crossword puzzles until you're tired of that. This is torture. This is mental torture.

Since boredom advances and boredom is the root of all evil, no wonder, then, that the world goes backwards, that evil spreads. This can be traced back to the very beginning of the world. The gods were bored; therefore they created human beings.