Arthur Helps Quotes

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

Dullness is the enemy.

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

Boredom is a concept that I don't understand.

I am bored with it all.

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

Boredom: the desire for desires.

I feel monotony and death to be almost the same.

If you're bored and you look bored, that's your fault.

I mean, evil and boredom. Evil and ennui. Evil and the lack of stimulation. Evil and sluggish blood.

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

Boredom makes me sleepy or restless.

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

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

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.

I cannot abide being bored.

Beware of monotony; it's the mother of all the deadly sins.

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.

So I sit there kicked my heels, thinking about New Orleans, and watching a morbid blue-bottle fly attempt to commit suicide by butting his head against the windowpane.

To be bored to death is a form of suicide.

In the end, it was the Sunday afternoons he couldn't cope with, and that terrible listlessness that starts to set in about 2:55, when you know you've taken all the baths that you can usefully take that day, that however hard you stare at any given paragraph in the newspaper you will never actually read it, or use the revolutionary new pruning technique it describes, and that as you stare at the clock the hands will move relentlessly on to four o'clock, and you will enter the long dark teatime of the soul.