Boredom Quotes

Defeat is a thing of weariness, of incoherence, of boredom, and above all futility.

Audacious ribald: your laughter will finish in hideous boredom before morning.

People get tired of everything, and of nothing sooner than of what they most like.

Fact is, perfection is boring.

The problem in public life is learning to overcome terror; the problem in married life is learning to overcome boredom.

We try to 'self-medicate' ourselves against boredom with mobile phones in any given moment of free time.

Many people, especially women, never experience boredom because they have never learned to work properly.

When a thing bores you, do not do it.

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

There's too much down time making movies. That leads to boredom. And that leads to trouble.

Boredom is a pleasing antidote for fear

For Heidegger, boredom is a privileged fundamental mood because it leads us directly into the very problem complex of being and time.

Sometimes I think evil is a tangible thing - with wave lengths, just as sound and light have.

My despair is less despair than boredom and loneliness.

A variety of nothing is superior to a monotony of something.

I never go to where's a risk. I'm frightened of dangers down to boredom.

The laws that keep us safe, these same laws condemn us to boredom.

Sociopaths are not afraid of very much, except for physical harm and dying - really primitive, basic kinds of fears. The problem with being alone for a sociopath is boredom.

Neutrality and boredom are the weapons of the state.

Every brand builder will face a million temptations to obscure, dilute, or confuse his or her brand message. These temptations fall under two general headings: boredom and the desire for growth.

The two real problems in life are boredom and death.

Being a [bank] director is like being a pilot of an aircraft - it's years of boredom and seconds of terror.

Do you suppose the human race invented boredom to make the prospect of death more palatable?

All sizes of film sets have the same level of excitement and friction and tension and then vast sections of boredom that define the process, so I love it all.

I have the impression that if he didn't complicate his life so needlessly, he would die of boredom.

The Devil may take the reckless, but the good will surely die of boredom. Boredom and frustration.

Boredom lies only with the traveler's limited perception and his failure to explore deeply enough. After a while, I found my perception limited.

I am unpacking my library. Yes I am. The books are not yet on the shelves, not yet touched by the mild boredom of order.

Don't try to 'fix' the child's boredom - rather, let the child find his or her inner resources.

My boredom threshold is low at the best of times but I have spent more time being slowly and excruciatingly bored by children than any other section of the human race.

True will-power and courage are not on the battlefield, but in everyday conquests over our intertia, laziness, boredom.

Worrying is as futile as boredom, but harder work.

Boredom and fatigue are great historical forces.

I've made a career over the last seventeen years of mostly playing men in uniform, especially cops. The one thing for an actor that is death, is if you're bored. The boredom will show in your work.

boredom has a tendency to bring out the worst in people's faces.

I have come to believe that holy boredom is good and sufficient reason for the invention of free will.

No-limit hold'em- Hours of boredom followed by moments of sheer terror.

Emptiness and boredom: what a complete understatement. What I felt was complete desolation. Desolation, despair and boredom.

They were connoisseurs of boredom. They savoured the various bouquets of the subtly differentiated boredoms which rose from the long, wasted hours at the dead end of night.

Boredom and stupidity and patriotism, especially when combined, are three of the greatest evils of the world we live in.

The merely well-informed man is the most useless bore on God's earth.

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

I guess that as life is speeded up and our capacity for concentration is being nibbled away at by all the obvious things, that leads us actually to be more susceptible to boredom.

The worst sin, the ultimate sin for me, in anything, is to be bored.

The 11th Commandment: Thou Shalt Not Bore God. The 12th Commandment: Thou Shalt Not Bore Thyself.

It is hard not to see into the future, faced with today's blind architecture - a thousand times more stupid and more revolting than that of other ages. How bored we shall be inside!

My greatest discovery has been my love of boredom and to get fun out of it.

Isn’t ‘not to be bored’ one of the principal goals of life?

We are almost always bored by just those whom we must not find boring.

Extreme boredom provides its own antidote.