Boredom Quotes

I’m bored’ is a useless thing to say. I mean, you live in a great, big, vast world that you’ve seen ...

I’m bored’ is a useless thing to say. I mean, you live in a great, big, vast world that you’ve seen ...

I’m bored’ is a useless thing to say. I mean, you live in a great, big, vast world that you’ve seen ...

I’m bored’ is a useless thing to say. I mean, you live in a great, big, vast world that you’ve seen ...

   "Fine! Fine! I'm listening...but it's not very interesting!...   "Oh, that's what you think! that...

If we allow our "high creativity" to remain alive, we will never be bored. We can pray, standing in ...

The glance embroiders in joy, knits in pain, and sews in boredom.When indifferent, the eye takes sti...

Soon, what was tedious was everything. 'Beautiful things, they're so tedious! Paintings, they're eno...

I am terrified of being bored.

Mama, I know you used to ride the bus. Riding the bus and it’s hot and bumpy and crowded and too noi...

I'm just not having a very good time and I don't have any reason to think it'll get anything but wor...

No. You can't. And I can't do anything either, about my life, to change it, make it better, make me ...

[…] without much ardor but quite unmistakably, she was writhing her hips as if she were dancing. Whe...

Give me boredom. At least I know where I'm going to eat and sleep tonight.

So life isn't exciting?" continued Gary. "Great. Give me boredom. At least I know where I'm going to...

Sometimes I think it is because we remember when we could smoke in pubs, and that we pull our phones...

The most costly disease is not cancer or coronaries. The most costly disease is boredom - costly for...

Boredom slays more of existence than war.

Poems should be like pins which prick the skin of boredom and leave a glow equal in its pride to the...

It is not uncommon for fighters’ camps to be gloomy. In heavy training, fighters live in dimensions ...

Many books are longer than they seem. They have indeed no end. The boredom that they cause is truly ...

I've had enough adventures," said Noxon, "to know that boredom is the closest thing to happiness. Bo...

Do you not hear the constant victory,in the human footraceof time, slow as fire,sure, and thick and ...

Boredom is rage spread thin.

The devil's name is dullness.

I fear the boredom that comes with not learning and not taking chances.

Boredom always precedes a period of great creativity.

My favorite cure for boredom is sleep. It's very easy to get to sleep when bored and very hard to ge...

I went on writing reviews for the newspaper, and critical articles crying out for a different approa...

There's nothing like impending death to rouse you from existential boredom.

Boredom is not far from bliss: it is bliss seen from the shores of pleasure.

What—in other words—would modern boredom be without terror? One of the most boring documents of all ...

Socrates tried to soothe us, true enough. He said there were only two possibilities. Either the soul...

Anyhow, I had found something out about an unknown privation, and I realized how a general love or c...

Boredom is the conviction that you can't change ... the shriek of unused capacities.

After much effort to live up to a glorious standard there came fatigue, wan hope, and boredom. I exp...

I abhor the idea of a perfect world. It would bore me to tears.

What kind of life can you have in a house without books?

- What do you expect? Think we were sent into the world to have a soft time and what is it? Float on...

I think boredom is the beginning of every authentic act. (...) Boredom opens up the space, for new e...

In the years since, I've discovered there's a lot to be said for boredom.

Those diversions sparked her life with momentary excitement. Without them, Charis felt she would be ...

He has returned from Italy a greater bore than ever he bores on architecture painting statuary an...

He has returned from Italy a greater bore than ever he bores on architecture painting statuary an...

How dreadful boredom is — how dreadfully boring; I know no stronger expression, no truer one, for li...

Boredom is the root of all evil. It is very curious that boredom, which itself has such a calm and s...

What a difference! Under the esthetic sky, everything is buoyant, beautiful, transient! when ethics ...

All men are bores. Surely no one will prove himself so great a bore as to contradict me in this. . ....

Dullness. Only humans could have invented it. What imaginations they had.

HUMAN BEINGS MAKE LIFE SO INTERESTING. DO YOU KNOW, THAT IN A UNIVERSE SO FULL OF WONDERS, THEY HAVE...

We did everything possible to keep up the spirits of the men, but it was exceedingly difficult becau...

The man who suspects his own tediousness has yet to be born.

But even those five-and-forty minutes were too long, the bored me --and boredom is the coldest thing...

But the boredom of Frau Spatz had by now reached that pitch where it distorts the countenance of man...

It is the lot of mankind to feel not only insecure but also bored. To combat that experience, people...

Nature is interested in only two things—to survive and to reproduce one like itself. Anything you su...

Something more terrible than a hell where one suffers may be imagined, and that is a hell where one ...

There's no excuse to be bored. Sad, yes. Angry, yes. Depressed, yes. Crazy, yes. But there's no excu...

The day, like the previous days, dragged sluggishly by in a kind of insipid idleness, devoid even of...

The secret of boring people lies in telling them everything.

Martin in particular concluded that man was born to live either in the convulsions of misery, or in ...

Our labour preserves us from three great evils -- weariness, vice, and want.

In any first-class work of art, you can find passages that in themselves are extremely boring, but t...

Boredom is the dream bird that hatches the egg of experience. A rustling in the leaves drives him aw...

This process of assimilation, which takes place in depth, requires a state of relaxation that is bec...

Some people can stay longer in an hour than others can in a week.

We may be willing to tell a story twice never to hear it more than once.

Boredom was at the root of Lazare's unhappiness, an oppressive, unremitting boredom, exuding from ev...

I would rather die of passion than of boredom.

I suppose, like most young people nowadays, boredom is what you dread most in the world, and yet, I ...

Our feelings of anxiety are genuine but confused signals that something is amiss, and so need to be ...

To grow interested in any piece of information, we need somewhere to 'put' it, which means some way ...

But the answer isn't just to intimidate people into consuming more 'serious' news; it is to push so-...

What we colloquially call 'feeling bored' is just the mind, acting out of a self-preserving reflex, ...

You don't usually think of boredom as something similar to pain. That's because you've only been exp...

Any country where I am not bored is a country that teaches me nothing.

He had been bored, that's all, bored like most people. Hence he had made himself out of whole cloth ...

The truth is that everyone is bored, and devotes himself to cultivating habits.

Your true traveller finds boredom rather agreeable than painful. It is the symbol of his liberty - h...

And allow me again to assure you that when you've got yourself going, doing your True Will, you won'...

Do you realise that people die of boredom in London suburbs? It's the second biggest cause of death ...

Why is there always this twitchiness, when you introduce a man to a woman friend, about whether the ...

It is hard not to see into the future, faced with today's blind architecture - a thousand times more...

Actually, I jade very quickly. Once is usually enough. Either once only, or every day. If you do som...

You need to let the little things that would ordinarily bore you suddenly thrill you.

He was prepared to die for it, as one of Baudelaire's dandies might have been prepared to kill himse...

Any idiot can face a crisis - it's this day-to-day living that wears you out.

Ivanov: With a heavy head, with a slothful spirit, exhausted, overstretched, broken, without faith, ...

Borkin: Ladies and gentlemen, why are you so glum? Sitting there like a jury after it's been sworn i...

We just philosophize, complain of boredom, or drink vodka. It's so clear, you see, that if we're to ...

Going to see plays isn't what you people should do. Try looking at yourselves a little more often an...

The worst part of being a driver is that you have hours to yourself while waiting for your employer....

The man who begins to go to bed forty minutes before he opens his bedroom door is bored; that is to ...

...a well-stocked mind is safe from boredom.

My correspondence has certainly the charm of variety, and the humbler are usually the more interesti...

My mind is like a racing engine, tearing itself to pieces because it is not connected up with the wo...

My mind rebels at stagnation. Give me problems, give me work, give me the most abstruse cryptogram, ...

Almost all human affairs are tedious. Everything is too long. Visits dinners concerts plays spee...

The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom.

If at any moment Time stays his hand, it is only when we are delivered over to the miseries of bored...