Boredom Quotes

What strange impulse is it which induces otherwise truthful people to say they like music when they do not, and thus expose themselves to hours of boredom?

The main thing I got from growing up in a suburb is the boredom you have as a child.

Something doing every minute' may be a gesture of despair-or the height of a battle against boredom.

Escape from boredom is one of the really powerful desires of almost all human beings.

Who does not recall school at least in part as endless dreary hours of boredom punctuated by moments of high anxiety?

Boredom is not black licorice, Snicket," she said. "There's no reason to share it with me.

Hard work never killed a man. Men die of boredom, psychological conflict, and disease. They do not die of hard work.

Audience boredom is usually a content failure, not a decoration failure.

Turning fifty ... is like flying: hours of boredom punctuated by moments of sheer terror.

I love heights. I love speed. Im on the verge of being a pyromaniac. Maybe my phobia is boredom.

The only way to live a long life is in a state of constant boredom.

There are people who think death a fate worse than boredom.

My definition of what makes a journey wholly or partially horrible is boredom.

the calm of a place like Bellwood is the peace of death without the hope of resurrection.

The Ancient Mariner seizes the guest at the wedding feast and will not let go until he has told all his story: the prototype of the bore.

Eagerness to please attracts bullies and bores.

People are reluctant to cite boredom as grounds for divorce.

When I am bored with myself, I try to find someone to listen to me.

Sometimes I dread loneliness more than bores. Other times, the reverse.

What people will do to get away from boredom!

We pay for security with boredom, for adventure with bother.

If you really want a life which has no boredom in it, drop all masks, be true. Sometimes it will be difficult, I know, but it is worth it. Be true.

We have a world of pleasure to win, and nothing to lose but boredom.

Boredom is a blessing when it leads you to wisdom. And boredom is a curse when it leads you to frustration and depression.

Work is the law of life, and to reject it as boredom is to submit to it as torment.

The way to be a bore is to say everything.

I have to start my real life soon, before I die of boredom and frustration.

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

And for all the richest and most successful merchants life inevitably became rather dull and niggly, and they began to imagine that this was therefore the fault of the worlds they'd settled on.

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

There are 6 reasons that a person does anything: Love, faith, greed, boredom, fear... revenge.

The only activity a cynic will find contagious is yawning, that is, with other people, at other people.

... an artist should paint from the heart, and not always what people expect. Predictability often leads to the dullest work, in my opinion, and we have been bored stiff long enough I think.

Why had his mother gone to the trouble of bringing him into the world if the most exciting moment in his life was having been made lame by a bayonet?

Considering Adrian had once gotten bored while reading while reading a particularly long menu, I had a hard time imagining he'd read the Hugo book in any language.

... he preferred being stimulated to being bored.

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

I'm just not having a very good time and I don't have any reason to think it'll get anything but worse. I'm tired. I'm hurt. I'm sad. I feel used.

I always think boredom is to some extent the fault of the bored.

Just as, at least in one religion, accidia is the first of the cardinal sins, so bordom, and particularly the incredible circumstance of waking up bored, was the only vice Bond utterly condemned.

Boredom comes simply from ignorance and lack of imagination.

Animals can be understimulated, but hardly bored.

One mood can be replaced by another, but it is impossible to leave attunement altogether. However, profound boredom brings us as close to a state of un-attunement as we can come.

Weeks passed like boats waiting to sail into the starless dawn, we were full of aimless endless darkness.

The day, like the previous days, dragged sluggishly by in a kind of insipid idleness, devoid even of that dreamy expectancy which can make idleness so enchanting.

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

Boredom always precedes a period of great creativity.

I'm dying of boredom. Or maybe just dying.

Something must happen; that is the reason for most human relationships. Something must happen; even servitude in love, in war, ordeath.

We all know how important love is, yet how often is it really emoted or exhibited? What so many sick people in this world suffer from-loneliness, boredom and fear-can't be cured with a pill.