Sooner barbarity than boredom.

The cat is a dilettante in fur.

It is difficult to obtain the friendship of a cat. It is a philosophical animal... one that does not place its affections thoughtlessly.

Yes, the work comes out more beautiful from a material that resists the process, verse, marble, onyx, or enamel.

Books follow morals, and not morals books.

The word poet literally means maker: anything which is not well made doesn't exist.

I am one of those for whom superfluity is a necessity.

Chance is the pseudonym of God when he did not want to sign.

Any man who does not have his inner world to translate is not an artist.

Critical lice are like body lice, which desert corpses to seek the living.

A cat will be your friend, but never your slave.

I am a man for whom the outside world exists.

You do not become a critic until it has been completely established to your own satisfaction that you cannot be a poet.

Art is beauty, the perpetual invention of detail, the choice of words, the exquisite care of execution.

If you are worthy of its affection, a cat will be your friend but never your slave.

Sooner barbarity than boredom.

To love is to admire with the heart; to admire is to love with the mind.

I was born to travel and write verse.

Eyes so transparent that through them the soul is seen.

What I write is not for little girls.

Brevity never fatigues therefore brevity is always a welcome guest.

The cat makes himself the companion of your hours of solitude, melancholy and toil.

Fortune loves to give bedroom slippers to people with wooden legs, and gloves to those with no hands.

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.