The essence of life is the smile of round female bottoms, under the shadow of cosmic boredom.

Every government has as much of a duty to avoid war as a ship's captain has to avoid a shipwreck.

The simplest of women are wonderful liars who can extricate themselves from the most difficult dilemmas with a skill bordering on genius.

The essence of life is the smile of round female bottoms, under the shadow of cosmic boredom.

Patriotism is a kind of religion; it is the egg from which wars are hatched.

It is the lives we encounter that make life worth living.

It is better to be unhappy in love than unhappy in marriage, but some people manage to be both.

A sick thought can devour the body's flesh more than fever or consumption.

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

How some of the writers I come across get through their books without dying of boredom is beyond me.

Running through things because you are familiar with them, breeds routine and this is the seed of boredom.

Jump out the window if you are the object of passion. Flee it if you feel it. Passion goes, boredom remains.

Airline travel is hours of boredom interrupted by moments of stark terror.

Your true traveller finds boredom rather agreeable than painful. It is the symbol of his liberty - his excessive freedom. He accepts his boredom, when it comes, not merely philosophically, but almost with pleasure.

The Beatles saved the world from boredom.

I don't believe in an afterlife, so I don't have to spend my whole life fearing hell, or fearing heaven even more. For whatever the tortures of hell, I think the boredom of heaven would be even worse.

The chief product of an automated society is a widespread and deepening sense of boredom.

Boredom, after all, is a form of criticism.

I've made a career over the last seventeen years of mostly playing men in uniform, especially cops. The one thing for an actor that is death, is if you're bored. The boredom will show in your work.

There's no excuse to be bored. Sad, yes. Angry, yes. Depressed, yes. Crazy, yes. But there's no excuse for boredom, ever.

Something opens our wings. Something makes boredom and hurt disappear. Someone fills the cup in front of us: We taste only sacredness.

When we hold back out of laziness, that is when we tie ourselves into knots of boredom.

Boredom is just the reverse side of fascination: both depend on being outside rather than inside a situation, and one leads to the other.

Flying is hours and hours of boredom sprinkled with a few seconds of sheer terror.

You'll find boredom where there is the absence of a good idea.

If I planned everything out in advance, I'd expire of boredom.

Who wants a world in which the guarantee that we shall not die of starvation entails the risk of dying of boredom?

Miss Searle had always considered boredom an intellectual defeat.

Our only competition in the theater is boredom, because if I'm bored with a play, if I'm revolted by a play on stage, with the Broadway prices, especially today, I'm going to walk out and not come back and pay that price again.

As actors, the thing we have to fight, more than even the business part of making movies, is boredom.

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

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

It is not the simple statement of facts that ushers in freedom; it is the constant repetition of them that has this liberating effect. Tolerance is the result not of enlightenment, but of boredom.

It's the boredom that kills you. You read until you're tired of that. You do crossword puzzles until you're tired of that. This is torture. This is mental torture.

It's precisely in those moments when I don't know what to do, boredom drives one to try a host of possibilities to either get somewhere or not get anywhere.

Much is forgiven anyone who relieves the desperate boredom of the working press.

The boredom occasioned by too much restraint is always preferable to that produced by an uncontrolled enthusiasm for a pointless variety.

There's a rebirth that goes on with us continuously as human beings. I don't understand, personally, how you can be bored. I can understand how you can be depressed, but I just don't understand boredom.

For all the boredom the straight life brings, it's not too bad.

Perhaps the world's second-worst crime is boredom; the first is being a bore.

He who seeks rest finds boredom. He who seeks work finds rest.

The essence of life is the smile of round female bottoms, under the shadow of cosmic boredom.

I know when I'm working I seldom get into trouble. My educated guess is that boredom has caused most of the problems with Hollywood celebrities.

Perhaps the world's second worst crime is boredom. The first is being a bore.

Boredom is always counter-revolutionary. Always.

Since boredom advances and boredom is the root of all evil, no wonder, then, that the world goes backwards, that evil spreads. This can be traced back to the very beginning of the world. The gods were bored; therefore they created human beings.

I wanted to get that sense of peace and even boredom that comes with long familiarity.

I can excuse everything but boredom. Boring people don't have to stay that way.

Writer's block is the greatest side effect of boredom.