Charles Caleb Colton Quotes

Among the idle rich, boredom is one of the most common causes of unhappiness. People who have difficulty in earning their living may suffer greatly, but they are not bored. Wealthy men and women become bored when they depend upon the theater for their enjoyment instead of making their own lives interesting.

The life of the wealthy is one long Sunday.

Every time I think I've touched bottom as far as boredom is concerned, new vistas of ennui open up.

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

I wasn't losing my focus but I was getting tired of focusing. What I was focusing on was becoming too routine, too ritual, not something that was interesting, new and exciting.

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

Even boredom has its crises.

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

People of Wealth and the so called upper class suffer the most from boredom.

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

I cannot abide being bored.

Ennui is the echo in us of time tearing itself apart.

I'm bored. I'm not unprofessional. I'm just bored.

Dullness is the enemy.

Boredom is a concept that I don't understand.

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

I am bored with it all.

Whenever Rod has four of five days off, he'll be bouncing off the walls with boredom.

It is so boring when you have seven days without a game.

People get bored very quickly.

They were connoisseurs of boredom. They savoured the various bouquets of the subtly differentiated boredoms which rose from the long, wasted hours at the dead end of night.

Luxury and Ostentation usually make me feel antsy, like I'm going to get a case of gout.

I've reached the point where tedium is a person, the incarnate fiction of my own company.

Boredom is like a pitiless zooming in on the epidermis of time. Every instant is dilated and magnified like the pores of the face.

After visiting several of America's most fashionable playgrounds, I have reached the conclusion that men who work hard enjoy life most. The men at such places can be divided into two classes, first, busy men of affairs ... and, second, rich loafers. I was impressed by the obvious enjoyment corporation heads and other important executives were deriving from their vacation activities.... The idle rich fellows, on the other hand, although indulging in exactly the same activities, palpably were bored.