All things are wearisome; more than one can express; the eye is not satisfied with seeing, or the ear filled with hearing. What ha...s been is what will be, and what has been done is what will be done; there is nothing new under the sun.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I am fairly tired--bored beyond endurance--by the world we live in, and its ideals, and am ready to say so, not violently, but kin...dly, as one rubs salt into the back of a flogged sailor as though one loved him.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
In the years of President Ford Decorum and calm were restored.... He did nothing hateful For which we were grateful But terribly, terribly bored.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I'm bored to extinction with Harrison. His limericks and puns are embarrassing.... But I'm fond of the bum, For, though dull as they come, He makes me feel bright by comparison.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
But once more, office desks, radiators No! That is behind me. No more dullness, only movies and love and laughter, sex and fu...n.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Boredom is like a pitiless zooming in on the epidermis of time. Every instant is dilated and magnified like the pores of the face.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The pendulum oscillates between these two terms: Suffering--that opens a window on the real and is the main condition of the artis...tic experience, and Boredom ... that must be considered as the most tolerable because the most durable of human evils.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »