“Boredom makes you do crazy things.”

— Jenny Holzer

Last update June 3, 2021. History

Help us to complete the source, original and additional information

Do you have more details about the quote "Boredom makes you do crazy things." by Jenny Holzer?

Jenny Holzer 17

American conceptual artist 1950

Related quotes

“Crazy how it feels tonight
Crazy how you make it all alright love
You crush me with the things you do
And I do for you anything too.”

Dave Matthews (1967) American singer-songwriter, musician and actor

Crush
Before These Crowded Streets (1998)

“If you're crazy, there's two things you can do to make yourself feel better: One is to get yourself cured. The other is to make everyone you have to deal with crazy.”

Alan Dean Foster (1946) American fiction writer

“I know he was desperate. That makes people do all kinds of crazy things.”

Suzanne Collins book Mockingjay

Source: Mockingjay

“Patience and boredom are closely related. Boredom, a certain kind of boredom, is really impatience. You don't like the way things are, they aren't interesting enough for you, so you deccide- and boredom is a decision-that you are bored.”

Bertrand Russell (1872–1970) logician, one of the first analytic philosophers and political activist

“It's so crazy not to do the human thing. It seems to me to be much more profitable to do the human thing. It just makes a better society.”

Lily Tomlin (1939) American actress, comedian, writer, and producer

Metro Weekly interview (2006)
Context: 9 to 5 made people aware of equal pay for equal work. It hasn't really happened, but it has come closer. We're aware of sexual harassment, and of course, there are very few companies that have daycare centers, which seems to me would be the most humane, positive thing to do for a worker. The worker would be more loyal, they'd be more productive. It's so crazy not to do the human thing. It seems to me to be much more profitable to do the human thing. It just makes a better society.