George Stillman Hillard Quotes

Idleness is the grand Pacific Ocean of life, and in that stagnant abyss the most salutary things produce no good, the most noxious no evil. Vice, indeed, abstractedly considered, may be, and often is engendered in idleness; but the moment it becomes efficiently vice, it must quit its cradle and cease to be idle.

In short, humans are programmed to get bored.

I'm either working or I'm lying in bed the entire day.

Boredom is a certain sign that we are allowing our faculties to rust in idleness.

Sometimes I think the human animal doesn't really need food or water to survive, only gossip.

All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy.

Doing nothing makes us crazy. But freedom comes when you don't have to work.

Idleness begets ennui, ennui the hypochondriac, and that a diseased body. No laborious person was ever yet hysterical.

There is nothing like employment, active indispensable employment, for relieving sorrow. Employment, even melancholy, may dispel melancholy.

I took a fortnight off. But I'm not a great believer in breaks. I don't want to be rattling around inside my own head. I did feel I was spiralling into a Kathy Burke character and tried going out, but I prefer it here. Filming keeps me busy. It absorbs me.

He suddenly became convinced that if he didn’t do something sensible, something to put his mind to some use, then before he knew it he would be wondering round the streets having fights with himself and inviting domestic animals to social occasions too.

We cannot hoard life as we can money. When a person tries to be a miser of his health, he usually makes himself miserable. Mental talents, if buried and not used, tend to deteriorate. Whoever would save his memory by not using it will lose it.

Animals can be driven crazy by placing too many in too small a pen. Homo sapiens is the only animal that voluntarily does this to himself.

I never knew a man troubled with melancholy, who had plenty to do, and did it.

Man is the only animal that can be bored.

I thought about how odd it is for billions of people to be alive, yet not one of them is really quite sure of what makes people people. The only activities I could think of that humans do that have no animal equivalent were smoking, body-building and writing. That's not much, considering how special we seem to think we are.

Idleness, we are accustomed to say, is the root of all evil. To prevent this evil, work is recommended.... Idleness as such is by no means a root of evil; on the contrary, it is truly a divine life, if one is not bored.

Boredom has always been a problem.

I think this is something that is naturally built in in people, a need for attention and a need to be special and we are always trying to find a balance.

A person has to be busy to be alive.

Being bored is an insult to oneself.

Let us consider that we are all insane. It will explain us to each other. It will unriddle many riddles

The psychiatrists say that everybody should have a hobby. The hobby I recommend is advertising

We were not made by Nature to work, or even to play, from eight o'clock in the morning till midnight. We ought to break our days and our marches into two.

It is in the nature of the human being to seek a justification for his actions.