boredom

The penalty for success is to be bored by the people who used to snub you.

One should only see a psychiatrist out of boredom.

Boredom is the keynote of poverty . . . for where there is no money there is no change of any kind, not of scene or of routine.

If men bore children, there would only be one born in each family.

My biggest concern during a race is getting bored. The biggest thing I have to combat is falling asleep while going around and around.

A young musician plays scales in his room and only bores his family. A beginning writer, on the other hand, sometimes has the misfortune of getting into print.

Mark how fleeting and paltry is the estate of man--yesterday in embryo, tomorrow a mummy or ashes. So for the hairsbreadth of time assigned to thee, live rationally, and part with life cheerfully, as drops the ripe olive, extolling the season that bore it and the tree that matured it.

A bore is someone who persists in holding his own views after we have enlightened him with ours.

Family dinners are more often than not an ordeal of nervous indigestion, preceded by hidden resentment and ennui and accompanied by psychosomatic jitters.

f you're bored with life - you don't get up every morning with a burning desire to do things - you don't have enough goals.