Abraham Lincoln Quotes

People who have nothing to do are quickly tired of their own company.

You're so used to being on the road and having a schedule that the insanity seeps in when you're sitting at home and there's nothing going on that day.

Nothing comes at all -- never anything. And I cannot accustom myself to that. It is this monotony, this absolute fixity in life, that is the hardest thing for me to endure. I should like to go away from here. Go away? But where and how? I do not know, and I stay.

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.

Boredom: the desire for desires.

Gee, its lonesome in the outfield. It's hard to keep awake with nothing to do.

There's a lot of down time on the road. That part of it I really don't enjoy. There's nothing to do.

I'm really boring when I'm on the road. I go from work to the hotel and then sit and work all night.

Nothing is so insufferable to man as to be completely at rest, without passions, without business, without diversion, without study. He then feels his nothingness, his forlornness, his insufficiency, his dependence, his weakness, his emptiness. There will immediately arise from the depth of his heart weariness, gloom, sadness, fretfulness, vexation, despair.

It's the boredom that kills you. You read until you're tired of that. You do crossword puzzles until you're tired of that. This is torture. This is mental torture.

Good-bye. I am leaving because I am bored.

I'd probably sit around the house and get lonesome if I didn't have something to do.

Somebody's boring me. I think it's me.

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

I'm terrible when I have to fill up free time. My days, if I'm not working, I wake up and figure out a way to kill time until it's time to go to sleep.

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.

I have been back in Paris for two weeks. Nothing new. Life is still bitter.

When I'm not creating something, I get bored; I despair.

Bored people, unless they sleep a lot, are cruel.

Most of the time I don't have much fun. The rest of the time I don't have any fun at all.

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

Eventually you get bored and you want to work.

I spend most of my time in a room alone where eight hours go by, and I have no sense of time. I work seven days a week, and I live in this sort of vague subconscious fog a lot.

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

The most boring thing in the world? Silence.