Bertrand Russell Quotes

Nothing is so intolerable to man as being fully at rest, without a passion, without business, without entertainment, without care.

If I'm not doing anything, I get really antsy and bored.

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

Sometimes I get kind of bored if I go like a month or so and I'm not doing anything. At first I'm like, 'Cool, I'll have a little time off and I'll get to hang out with friends,' but then after a little while goes by I'm like, 'Oh,' and I really wish that I could go back and start doing work again.

Leisure is the handmaiden of the devil.

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

If I am not moving I get bored very easily.

People get bored very quickly.

When there's not much to do, you find things to do that get you in trouble.

Avoid sloth, the mother of all vices!

Perhaps I overemphasized the value of keeping busy.... I liked to imagine that I was incapable of doing nothing for afternoons myself, but maybe what disturbed me was that I was capable of it. I feared this was a knack one could get the hang of rather readily, and it was therefore now lurking in my house waiting for me to pick it up like a winter flu.

Doing anything when you're bored is very very boring. Anyway, doing nothing is the point of being bored. The pleasure of being bored ismooning about and doing nothing.

It's boredom. No other reason than that.

Idleness is the beginning of all psychology. What? Could it be that psychology is ? a vice?

I am most scared of being bored

Sluggish idleness--the nurse of sin.

There is only one thing worse than boredom, and that is the fear of boredom.

The devil finds work for idle hands.

Poor tired Tim! It's sad for him He lags the long bright morning through, Ever so tired of nothing to do.

Boredom is usually what spurs either bad decisions or any decision at all.

I hate getting bored.

Boredom: the desire for desires.

The dreadful burden of having nothing to do.

If I have to spend prolonged periods of time in a trailer, I go mad. Stuck in a metal box doing nothing, I lie there paralysed with boredom.

This was in '79. I got pretty restless there, sitting around with a lot of people sitting around smoking cigarettes and talking about films, but nobody really doing anything.