Quotes About Boredom

The life of the creative man is led, directed and controlled by boredom. Avoiding boredom is one of our most important purposes.

Defeat is a thing of weariness, of incoherence, of boredom.

Every hero becomes a bore at last.

The effect of boredom on a large scale in history is underestimated. It is a main cause of revolutions, and would soon bring to an end all the static Utopias and the farmyard civilization of the Fabians.

Nothing is so intolerable to man as being fully at rest, without passion, without business, without entertainment, without care. It is then that he recognizes that he is empty, insufficient, dependent, ineffectual. From the depths of his soul now comes at once boredom, gloom, sorrow, chagrin, resentment and despair.

When I'm doing a movie, I eat the same thing every day. For lunch, it's tuna salad or chicken salad and cole slaw. That's it. For dinner it's either veal and rice, fish and rice or steak and rice. It gets boring; boy, does it get boring.

Basically, all anyone has to do is ask me for fun details or tell me to be creative, and my mind turns to mud. I am instantly the most boring person you've ever met.

I was really bored in school because I couldn't do what I wanted to do, which was act. And then when I was 14, a local TV company came to the youth theater, and they were auditioning kids to be in this new TV series.

I get very, very bored by TV series or TV movies. But when you see great acrobats on TV, my eyes stick to the screen. I can watch them forever.

I try every day and every night to find a movie or a TV show that I can watch, but I just can't make it past ten minutes of anything.

Leisure: A fancy word for people who don't want to admit they're bored.

The lesson there is that there's no hiding the sound of a band that is bored with its own music. Whatever it takes to create the sound of excitement, that's what you want to do.

In all of our lives, we know some boring people, but we don't want to see them on television. In our families, we have some very odd people who have odd neurosis. All of us are really strange people.

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.

After a while, if you are sufficiently bored or unemployed, you may want to read it from cover to cover.

I'm not a horror fan. I'm an anti-horror fan. I think horror fans feel deep down in the pit of their souls, they feel safe, and therefore bored. And therefore they want to be scared.

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.

According to Gur's theory of boredom, everything that happens in the world today is because of boredom: love, war, inventions, fake fireplaces - ninety-five percent of all that is pure boredom.

Boredom slays more of existence than war.

Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon.

Boredom comes simply from ignorance and lack of imagination.

Millions long for immortality who don't know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon.

Milioni di persone desiderano vivere in eterno, ma non sanno che cosa fare in una piovosa domenica pomeriggio

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