{"quotes":[{"text":"Boredom and ineffective attempts to escape tedium are the perpetual lot of humankind.","author":"Kilroy J. Oldster","tags":["boredom","boredom-and-attitude","boredom-of-soul","boredom","depression","depression","discontent","discontentment","disquiet","disquietude","escape-from-reality","escapism","sadness","sadness","suffering","suffering-life","suffering-of-humanity","suffering","tedium"],"id":136824,"author_id":"Kilroy+J.+Oldster"},{"text":"Boredom is a kind reminder that we've shadowed our creativity.","author":"Dr. Jacinta Mpalyenkana","tags":["boredom-and-attitude","life-and-living","life-philosophy"],"id":148429,"author_id":"Dr.+Jacinta+Mpalyenkana"},{"text":"Rain's pouring and it's too cold. All people bored and I even accord What to do but spell a tale told: So once upon a time a land in the shore...","author":"Ana Claudia Antunes","tags":["acrostic","bored","boredom","boredom-and-attitude","boredom","poems","poetical","poetry","rhymes","stories","storytellers","storytelling","tale","telling","writer"],"id":216278,"author_id":"Ana+Claudia+Antunes"},{"text":"Boredom is for the selfish.","author":"Patti Digh","tags":["boredom","boredom-and-attitude","keep-learning","moving-forward","selfishness"],"id":226489,"author_id":"Patti+Digh"},{"text":"Time is quixotic because it can torment us. When we have insufficient stimulus to fill our lives, we resent the relentless quality of time, and we engage in activities designed to “kill time.” Time that passes slowly creates insufferable boredom; time that passes to quickly makes us aware of our accelerated death march. A person’s perspective on time depends mostly on what they are most afraid of, boredom or death.","author":"Kilroy J. Oldster","tags":["boredom","boredom-and-attitude","boredom","death","death-and-dying","death","time","time-passing","time"],"id":231728,"author_id":"Kilroy+J.+Oldster"},{"text":"Getting bored pertains only to the stupid people in this planet of wonders! For the clever, even the simplest things of life - like sunrise or sunset - are a great source of entertainment!","author":"Mehmet Murat ildan","tags":["bored","boredom","boredom-and-attitude","boredom","getting-bored","ildan-wisdom","ildan-wise-sayings","ildan-words","mehmet-murat-ildan","mehmet-murat-ildan","simple-things","simple-things-in-life","simple-things-of-life","sunrise","sunrise","sunrises","sunset","sunset","sunset","sunset","sunsets","turkish-aphorisms","turkish-","turkish-literature","turkish-playwrights","turkish","turkish","turkish-sayings","turkish-thinkers","turkish-wisdom-words","turkish-writers"],"id":299884,"author_id":"Mehmet+Murat+ildan"},{"text":"The key is the ability, whether innate or conditioned, to find the other side of the rote, the picayune, the meaningless, the repetitive, the pointlessly complex. To be, in a word, unborable … If you are immune to boredom, there is literally nothing you cannot accomplish.","author":"David Foster Wallace","tags":["accomplishment","attitude","boredom-and-attitude","inspirational","perspective","writing"],"id":304089,"author_id":"David+Foster+Wallace"},{"text":"Boredom is a positive attitude's enemy.","author":"Lindsey Rietzsch","tags":["bored","boredom","boredom-and-attitude","boredom","enemy","enemy","happiness","happiness-advice","happiness","motivational-speaker","positive-attitude","positive-thinking","positive-thoughts"],"id":329629,"author_id":"Lindsey+Rietzsch"},{"text":"Boredom is the Devil's delight.","author":"Lindsey Rietzsch","tags":["bored","boredom","boredom-and-attitude","boredom","devil","devil","enemy","enemy","happiness","happiness-advice","happiness","idleness","idleness","motivational-speaker","positive-attitude","positive-thinking","positive-thoughts","satan"],"id":394492,"author_id":"Lindsey+Rietzsch"},{"text":"It is the lot of mankind to feel not only insecure but also bored. To combat that experience, people long to be passively entertained, which requires less effort than assuming responsibility for self-improvement.","author":"Thomas Szasz","tags":["boredom","boredom-and-attitude","entertainment","responsibility","self-improvement"],"id":408652,"author_id":"Thomas+Szasz"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":10,"pages":1}}