“There is mercy for everyone, except those who are bored with life.”

The only joy in the world is to begin.

Suicides are timid murderers. Masochism instead of Sadism.

All sins have their origin in a sense of inferiority otherwise called ambition.

From someone who doesn’t want to share your destiny, you should neither accept a cigarette.

We like to have work to do, so as to have the right to rest.

Don’t mix wine and women.

You don’t remember days, you remember moments.

Every luxury must be paid for, and everything is a luxury, starting with being in this world.

All our “most sacred affections ” are merely prosaic habit.

Perfect behaviour is born of complete indifference.

Lessons are not given, they are taken.

The whole problem of life, then, is this: how to break out of one’s own loneliness, how to communicate with others.

No one ever lacks a good reason for suicide.

Human imagination is immensely poorer than reality.

The only reason why we are always thinking of our own ego is that we have to live with it more continuously than with anyone else’s.

For women, history does not exist. Murasaki, Sappho, and Madame Lafayette might be their own contemporaries.

I am hungry, feed me; I am bored, amuse me.

It took us five hours to reach Tokyo, but I wasn’t bored one bit. I didn’t really get to hear so much about Nana. But I knew I would have loved… To hear what Nana had to say about herself. – Nana Komatsu

Doing anything when you’re bored is very very boring. Anyway, doing nothing is the point of being bored.

The pleasure of being bored ismooning about and doing nothing.

Do you remember the time we met? The wind blew the snow about on the outside, the train moved, stopped, and then moved some more.

If I am not moving I get bored very easily.

I love going to work out now. It gets out aggression and my trainer really shakes it up so I don’t get bored.

White-collar crime has been marketed – billions of dollars have been put in to have us be bored by it.