Aidan Chambers Quotes

The cafes bore me; going downstairs is a nuisance. Painting and sleeping - that's all there is.

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

Women all want to be ladies, which is simply to have nothing to do, but listlessly to go they scarcely care where, for they cannot tell what.

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

Boredom is the legitimate kingdom of the philanthropic.

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

I don't understand the joy of sitting in my house with nothing to do.

I do nothing, granted. But I see the hours pass - which is better than trying to fill them.

Idleness is not doing nothing. Idleness is being free to do anything.

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.

I'm just a lazy boy. I'd rather sit in my recliner and act.

I am having a good time doing nothing.

I think it's a pretty good day if I can get through it without lifting a finger.

I'm perfectly happy doing nothing. I'll hang around the house and take the dog to the park.

What would be really difficult is to be sitting on a beach. There's vacations, and there's vegetations. I don't do well vegetating.

Boredom is... a vital problem for the moralist, since half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it.

I like doing nothing, actually. Doing nothing is better thing when I am not working.

I hate getting bored.

The dreadful burden of having nothing to do.

The worst thing we can do is to do nothing.

He does not seem to me to be a free man who does not sometimes do nothing.

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

I enjoy doing nothing.

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.

Believe it or not, I'm pretty good at just doing nothing.