Pastoral Resources

The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom.

Boredom is just the reverse side of fascination: both depend on being outside rather than inside a situation, and one leads to the other.

The life of the creative man is lead, directed and controlled by boredom. Avoiding boredom is one of our most important purposes.

One should only see a psychiatrist out of boredom.

One must choose in life between boredom and suffering.

This is the curse of our age, even the strangest aberrations are no cure for boredom.

It is the unknown that excites the ardor of scholars, who, in the known alone, would shrivel up with boredom.

If I planned everything out in advance, I'd expire of boredom.

Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time; serenity, that nothing is.

He who seeks rest finds boredom. He who seeks work finds rest.

Boredom is rage spread thin.

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

Much is forgiven anyone who relieves the desperate boredom of the working press.

In marketing you must choose between boredom, shouting and seduction. Which do you want?

Boredom is the legitimate kingdom of the philanthropic.

Writer's block is the greatest side effect of boredom.