Pastoral Resources

Before, for me, peace could have been synonymous with boredom.

Idle people are often bored and bored people, unless they sleep a lot, are cruel. It is not accident that boredom and cruelty are great preoccupations in our time.

When we hold back out of laziness, that is when we tie ourselves into knots of boredom.

Variety is more than a means of avoiding boredom, since art is more than an entertainment of the senses.

I don't believe in an afterlife, so I don't have to spend my whole life fearing hell, or fearing heaven even more. For whatever the tortures of hell, I think the boredom of heaven would be even worse.

In order to live free and happily you must sacrifice boredom. It is not always an easy sacrifice.

Perhaps the world's second worst crime is boredom. The first is being a bore.

Perhaps the world's second-worst crime is boredom; the first is being a bore.

Boredom is the dream bird that hatches the egg of experience. A rustling in the leaves drives him away.

Airline travel is hours of boredom interrupted by moments of stark terror.

Flying is hours and hours of boredom sprinkled with a few seconds of sheer terror.

I've made a career over the last seventeen years of mostly playing men in uniform, especially cops. The one thing for an actor that is death, is if you're bored. The boredom will show in your work.

For boredom speaks the language of time, and it is to teach you the most valuable lesson of your life - the lesson of your utter insignificance.

I've got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom.

Only the most acute and active animals are capable of boredom. - A theme for a great poet would be God's boredom on the seventh day of creation.

As soon as you set foot on a yacht you belong to some man, not to yourself, and you die of boredom.

Jump out the window if you are the object of passion. Flee it if you feel it. Passion goes, boredom remains.

Isn't history ultimately the result of our fear of boredom?

Virtuous people often revenge themselves for the constraints to which they submit by the boredom which they inspire.

Even boredom has its crises.