Being Bored Quotes

Being Bored Quote of the day

What is the task of higher education? To make a man into a machine. What are the means employed? He is taught how to suffer being bored.

If I die prematurely at any rate I shall be saved from being bored to death by my own success.

There's a story everywhere. Being bored to death someplace is basically a funny proposition. What you have to watch out for is you don't write a boring story about a boring place.

I'm afraid of NOTHING except being bored!

I will risk everything to avoid being bored.

You get ideas from daydreaming. You get ideas from being bored. You get ideas all the time. The only difference between writers and other people is we notice when we're doing it.

[I]nside every computer, there is a hidden man being bored.

The only thing worse than being bored is being boring.

I'm terrified of being bored and not learning.

Work is making a living out of being bored.

And I not only inherited an aversion to the nine-to-five routine, but the sense from my parents that being bored and boring is the worst thing that you can be.

...it seemed appropriate that I should develop some kind of illness. This is a good idea when you are at a loose end because everything, up to and including herpes, is better than being bored.

It is commonly supposed that the art of pleasing is a wonderful aid in the pursuit of fortune; but the art of being bored is infinitely more successful.

Forget about where you want to be and go out and build stuff. Dodgeball came from being bored at work... things happen because you make them happen. Stop sketching, and start building.

I dreaded having a boring life when I grew up. And I certainly can't complain about being bored.

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.

I am most scared of being bored

I realized then that a man who had lived only one day could easily live for a hundred years in prison. He would have enough memories to keep him from being bored

Why is life so complicated....?' I asked. 'To keep us from being bored,' he said.

I learned how to draw from being bored in school. I would doodle on the margins of my paper

You ought not to be ashamed of being bored. What you ought to be ashamed of is being boring.

I've always been terrified about being bored. I always think being bored is the worst thing. The only strategic decision I ever made as an actor was to try and make each job as different as possible.

I want to be bored. But I can't. But I really don't want to be this thing that I'm having to be instead of being bored.

Staying busy keeps me away from being bored, which used to be a lot of my problem.

My days had a pleasant identicalness about them. I had always liked that: I liked routine. I liked being bored. I didn’t want to but I did.

You're a lot better off being scared than being bored.

What greater happiness is there than the privilege of being bored together?

Every person has some splendid traits and if we confine our contacts so as to bring those traits into action, there is no need of ever being bored or irritated or indignant.

I cannot abide being bored.