Adrian Anthony Gill Quotes

Nothing is so intolerable to man as being fully at rest, without a passion, without business, without entertainment, without care.

I'm bored. I'm not unprofessional. I'm just bored.

I can't think of anything worse than to be stuck in something that I've already lost interest in.

In the end, it was the Sunday afternoons he couldn't cope with, and that terrible listlessness that starts to set in about 2:55, when you know you've taken all the baths that you can usefully take that day, that however hard you stare at any given paragraph in the newspaper you will never actually read it, or use the revolutionary new pruning technique it describes, and that as you stare at the clock the hands will move relentlessly on to four o'clock, and you will enter the long dark teatime of the soul.

In communications, familiarity breeds apathy.

The cafes bore me; going downstairs is a nuisance. Painting and sleeping - that's all there is.

There were times I wouldn't come to practice, because it didn't excite me. It wasn't interesting. I was kind of going through the motions.

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

There is no fun in doing nothing when you have nothing to do.

Many people are in a rut and a rut is nothing but a grave - with both ends kicked out.

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

If you stare at a wall from four in the morning till nine at night, and you do that for a week, you are getting pretty close to nothingness.

It's just very dull. Talking about yourself and about something that you've got less interest in than you had, because you've always moved on to something else.

Is boredom anything less than the sense of one's faculties slowly dying?

Idle people are often bored and bored people, unless they sleep a lot, are cruel. It is not accident that boredom and cruelty are great preoccupations in our time.

Long-term boredom can't lead to anything good.

In secondary school I was floating - I wasn't passionate about anything. I did a little sport, but it was pretty joyless because the competitiveness was too much to bear.

Something stopped me in school a little bit. Anything that I'm not interested in, I can't even feign interest.

How does one get bored of life?

Ennui is the echo in us of time tearing itself apart.

The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore.

Dullness is the enemy.

I'm so boring. My idea of a great day is just to be home with absolutely nothing to do.

For me, a bad day is when I have nothing going on.

Nothing happened, and nothing kept happening.