The problem in public
The problem in public life is learning to overcome terror; the problem in married life is learning to overcome boredom. Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Boredom
The Garden En robe
The Garden En robe de parade. – Samain Like a skein of loose silk blown against a wall She walks by the railing of a path in Kensington Gardens, And she is dying piece-meal of a sort of emotional anaemia. And round about there is a rabble Of the filthy, sturdy, unkillable infants of the … Read more
Punctuality is the virtue
Punctuality is the virtue of the bored. Evelyn Waugh
Boredom flourishes too, when
Boredom flourishes too, when you feel safe. It’s a symptom of security. Eugene Ionesco
Three-quarters of a soldier’s
Three-quarters of a soldier’s life is spent in aimlessly waiting about. Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy
The so-called conscientiousness of
The so-called conscientiousness of the majority of painters is only perfection applied to the art of boring. Eugene Delacroix
When a thing bores
When a thing bores you, do not do it. Eugene Delacroix
To the non-combatants and
To the non-combatants and those on the periphery of action, the war meant only boredom or occasional excitement, but to those who entered the meat grinder itself the war was a netherworld of horror from which escape seemed less and less likely as casualties mounted and the fighting dragged on and on. Time had no … Read more
According to Gur’s theory
According to Gur’s theory of boredom, everything that happens in the world today is because of boredom: love, war, inventions, fake fireplaces – ninety-five percent of all that is pure boredom. Etgar Keret
At the same time,
At the same time, eroticism in the home requires active engagement and willful intent. It is an ongoing resistance to the message that marriage is serious, more work than play; and that passion is for teenagers and the immature. We must unpack our ambivalence about pleasure, and challenge our pervasive discomfort with sexuality, particularly in … Read more