Your true traveller finds boredom rather agreeable than painful. It is the symbol of his liberty - his excessive freedom. He accepts his boredom, when it comes, not merely philosophically, but almost with pleasure.

Quote by Aldous Huxley

Topics: Boredom Quotes, Travel Quotes

Sons have always a rebellious wish to be disillusioned by that which charmed their fathers.

Sons have always a rebellious wish to be disillusioned by that which charmed their fathers.

There is no bad day that cant be overcome by listening to a barbershop quartet....

There is no bad day that cant be overcome by listening to a barbershop quartet....

The traveller's-eye view of men and women is not satisfying. A man might spend his...

The traveller's-eye view of men and women is not satisfying. A man might spend his...

Like every other good thing in this world, leisure and culture have to be paid...

Like every other good thing in this world, leisure and culture have to be paid...

If most of us remain ignorant of ourselves, it is because self-knowledge is painful and...

If most of us remain ignorant of ourselves, it is because self-knowledge is painful and...

Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are dead.

Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are dead.

What with making their way and enjoying what they have won, heroes have no time...

What with making their way and enjoying what they have won, heroes have no time...

Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards.

Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards.

Every civilization is, among other things, an arrangement for domesticating the passions and setting them...

Every civilization is, among other things, an arrangement for domesticating the passions and setting them...

The propagandist's purpose is to make one set of people forget that certain other sets...

The propagandist's purpose is to make one set of people forget that certain other sets...

At ten, a child; at twenty, wild; at thirty, tame, if ever; at forty, wise;...

At ten, a child; at twenty, wild; at thirty, tame, if ever; at forty, wise;...

My father considered a walk among the mountains as the equivalent of churchgoing.

My father considered a walk among the mountains as the equivalent of churchgoing.

From age to age, nothing changes, and yet everything ..... is completely different.

From age to age, nothing changes, and yet everything ..... is completely different.

The only completely consistent people are the dead.

The only completely consistent people are the dead.

There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and...

There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and...

Every man's memory is his private literature.

Every man's memory is his private literature.

The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age...

The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age...

In the course of history many more people have died for their drink and their...

In the course of history many more people have died for their drink and their...

You can't trust any bugger further than you can throw him, and there's nothing you...

You can't trust any bugger further than you can throw him, and there's nothing you...

But Jesus said unto them, Ye know not what ye ask: can ye drink of...

But Jesus said unto them, Ye know not what ye ask: can ye drink of...