Blaise Pascal Quotes

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

The dreadful burden of having nothing to do.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

Dullness is the enemy.

Of all the cankers of human happiness, none corrodes with so silent, yet so baneful a tooth as indolence.

Nero fiddled while Rome burned, but [Calvin] Coolidge only snores.

I don't want to be the guy who sits on a front porch with a mint julep in his hand and rocks his life away.

People get bored very quickly.

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

For me, a bad day is when I have nothing going on.

It is difficult to keep quiet if you have nothing to do

I do not care for anything. I do not care to ride, for the exercise is too violent. I do not care to walk, walking is too strenuous. I do not care to lie down, for I should either have to remain lying, and I do not care to do that, or I should have to get up again, and I do not care to do that either. Summa summarum: I do not care at all.

Nothing happens. Nobody comes, nobody goes. It's awful.

The loudest sound on earth, she thought, is a man with nothing to do.