John W. Gardner Quotes

Long-term boredom can't lead to anything good.

Boredom flourishes too, when you feel safe. It's a symptom of security.

You try to figure out things to keep yourself interested. It's very easy to get lulled.

I feel monotony and death to be almost the same.

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

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

How does one get bored of life?

Dullness is the enemy.

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

I have just gotten to the point where I have been very, very disgusted with the fact that nothing is going on down there.

I am bored with it all.

A lot of the time nothing happens in a day.

People collect boredom, they hoard it, they wallow in it, hoping that one day it'll be of interest and become an effete ennui. Let me tell you, it doesn't.

I'm fed up of doing run-of-the-mill stuff.

There's no challenge involved in any kind of role. I don't have to prove or impress anybody.

But the grind has begun. The windows don’t open, and even the availability of near-constant jokes about Jews and Mormons fails to stem the tide of frustration, decay. We’ve reached the end of pure inspiration, and are now somewhere else, something implying routine, or doing something because people expect us to do it, going somewhere each day because we went there the day before, saying things because we have said them before, and this seems like the work of a different sort of animal, contrary to our plan, and this is very very bad.

Boredom is the conviction that you can't change ... the shriek of unused capacities.

Everything becomes too normal after a while.

It isnot good enough tospend time and ink indescribing the penultimate sensations and physical movements of people getting into a state of rut, we all know them so well.

The days hardened with cold and boredom like last year's loaves of bread. One began to cut them with blunt knives without appetite, with a lazy indifference.

When things are easy, I hate it.

The world, a tired performer, offers us another half-assed season.

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

Boredom, Timothy Duane assured me, is nothing more than anger without passion.

I get bored easily. I've been bored most of my life.