Walter de La Mare Quotes

Men fall into a routine when they are tired and slack: it has all the appearance of activity with few of its burdens.

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

Indolence and melancholy: Each generates the other. If one can speak of such feeble passions as generating anything.

The first thing I think about when I wake up most mornings is the fact that I’m tired.

The long days seduce all thought away, and we lie like the lizards in the sun, postponing our lives indefinitely.

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

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

I'm kind of lethargic in real life.

People get bored very quickly.

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

No, I slept as I always do when I am bored and have not the courage to amuse myself, or when I am hungry and have not the desire to eat.--The Count of Monte Cristo

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.

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.

I'm just tired and bored with myself.

Indolence, languid as it is, often masters both passions and virtues.

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.

A lot of people are tired around here, but I'm not sure they're ready to lie down, stretch out and fall asleep.

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

Boredom: the desire for desires.

The dreadful burden of having nothing to do.

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.

The first thing I think about when I wake up most mornings is the fact that I'm tired. I have been tired for decades. I am tired in the morning and I am tired while becalmed in the slough of the afternoon, and I am tired in the evening, except right when I try to go to sleep.

I know how deeply slothful I am.

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