Boredom Quotes

I looked out the window for other passengers in love with their drivers, but we were well disguised, we pretended boredom and prayed for traffic.

boredom was born on a day of uniformity.

A man who experiences no genuine satisfaction in life does not want peace. Men court war to escape meaninglessness and boredom, to be relieved of fear and frustration.

I have a really low boredom threshold.

The most costly disease is boredom costly for both individual and society.

Retiring and discovering that you no longer have enough energy to enjoy life and dying a few years out of sheer boredom.

I was sailing from tedium to apathy with a side trip to torpor.

Life is first boredom, then fear. Whether or not we use it, it goes, And leaves what something hidden from us chose, And age, and then the only end of age.

Idleness or boredom has no place in the life of a Christian.

Boredom and restlessness are deeply related. Whenever you feel boredom, then you feel restlessness. Restlessness is a by-product of boredom.

My girlfriend's packed her bags and moved out to another town, she couldn't stand the boredom when the video broke down.

Boredom is what happens to people who have no control over their minds.

Maybe you reach a certain point in evolution where boredom is the greatest threat to your survival. Maybe this isn't a planetary takeover at all, but a game. Like a kid pulling wings off flies.

A man has got to keep his extrication. The important thing is not to get bogged down In what he has to do to earn a living.

Boredom is a horrible thing.

If I have to spend prolonged periods of time in a trailer, I go mad. Stuck in a metal box doing nothing, I lie there paralysed with boredom.

Boredom and booze--cause and effect.

The function of music is to release us from the boredom of existence.

We come from a long line of people who live to read boring texts – I think it may be why we all die young. Complete boredom. (Geary)

So eager to die are you? (Zakar) Not particularly, but I’d rather go down clubbing Kessar than from boredom. (Kat)

Rules equal boredom, and I don't like that.

The boredom of married life inevitable destroys love, when love has preceded marriage.

They're a redefinition of boredom... the most important thing you need to know about an awards show is where is the nearest smoking opportunity.

One wonders what would happen in a society in which there were no rules to break. Doubtless everyone would quickly die of boredom.

...boredom is all about perception. It's a self-diagnosis, plain and simple. If you don't realize you're bored, you're not.

I’ve seen excitement, and I’ve seen boredom. And boredom was best.

Remember—boredom is the enemy, not some abstract "failure.

We shop out of boredom, for release, for excitement, for a sense of achievement, for a sense of control over our unruly existences. And every so often, we shop because we need something to wear.

Boredom is only for boring people with no imagination.

Punk was a protest against work and against boredom. It was a sign of life, a rant, a scream, a rejection of bourgeois morals. But have things improved since then? Arguably, they've got worse.

Idleness allows you to turn a situation from boredom to pleasure.

Many people try to avoid pressure, yet the absence of any tension or pressure usually creates a sense of boredom and the lackluster experience of life that so many people complain about.

If you want to cure boredom, be curious. If you're curious, nothing is a chore; it's automatic - you want to study. Cultivate curiosity, and life becomes an unending study of joy.

You've eased my boredom for quite a while, haven't you? -Ryuk

Boredom provides a stronger inclination to write than anything.

If sleep is the apogee of physical relaxation, boredom is the apogee of mental relaxation. Boredom is the dream bird that hatches the egg of experience.

I think Hollywood sees so many parts of America through a very narrow prism. The South is no exception. And those stereotypes, while sometimes true, are exaggerated for me to the point of boredom.

Boredom is a certain sign that we are allowing our faculties to rust in idleness.

Speak on, but be not over-tedious.

With battlements that on their restless fronts Bore stars.

Life wore a man out, wore a man thin.Tomorrow would be a better day.

We did everything possible to keep up the spirits of the men, but it was exceedingly difficult because there was nothing for them to do.

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

Boredom is therefore a vital problem for the moralist, since at least half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it.

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

Good digestions, the gray monotony of provincial life, and the boredom—ah the soul-destroying boredom—of long days of mild content.

Lady Dedlock is always the same exhausted deity, surrounded by worshippers, and terribly liable to be bored to death, even while presiding at her own shrine.

It is better to be happy for a moment and be burned up with beauty than to live a long time and be bored all the while.

I became bored - that was all. Boredom, which is another name and a frequent disguise for vitality, became the unconscious motive of all my acts.

The basic fact about human existence is not that it is a tragedy but that it is a bore.