Alejandro Jodorowsky Quotes

Most of the time I don't have much fun. The rest of the time I don't have any fun at all.

If I'm not doing anything, I get really antsy and bored.

I hope I don't just sit around moping for two years.

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

I can only be so long without work before I start getting antsy.

Boredom is the root of all evil - the despairing refusal to be oneself.

It takes a lot of time to be a genius, you have to sit around so much doing nothing, really doing nothing.

I'm not very happy idle.

When I was a boy, my father used to criticize me for - it's hard to translate - I guess you could say 'mindless time.' Thinking what to do. I need to be bored so I can be pushed into doing something.

If you get bored with nothing to do, you are not a writer.

So I sit there kicked my heels, thinking about New Orleans, and watching a morbid blue-bottle fly attempt to commit suicide by butting his head against the windowpane.

It's the boredom that kills you. You read until you're tired of that. You do crossword puzzles until you're tired of that. This is torture. This is mental torture.

Good-bye. I am leaving because I am bored.

It sometimes feels like I'm not doing anything.

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

I hate getting bored.

Boredom: the desire for desires.

If I have to spend prolonged periods of time in a trailer, I go mad. Stuck in a metal box doing nothing, I lie there paralysed with boredom.

This was in '79. I got pretty restless there, sitting around with a lot of people sitting around smoking cigarettes and talking about films, but nobody really doing anything.

I like to be working and moving - the worst thing you can do to me is stick me in a room all day while you're lighting a shot. That just kills me.

Bored people, unless they sleep a lot, are cruel.

People of Wealth and the so called upper class suffer the most from boredom.

This is the curse of our age, even the strangest aberrations are no cure for boredom.

I'm getting bored performing the same songs over and over. Songwriting comes and goes.