Quotes About Boredom

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

An offspring's sigh of tedium is inaudible to all human ears except a parent's. Boring your child who, at one point in his or her life, found you unspeakably delightful is humbling.

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

The more interesting life becomes, in other words, the more boredom we are doomed to experience.

Boredom might be construed as the impetus for achievement rather than as an obstacle to it.

A world without boredom would be dull.

Emptiness and boredom: what an understatement. What I felt was complete desolation. Desolation, despair, and depression. Isn't there some other way to look at this? After all, angst of these dimensions is a luxury item. You need to be well fed, clothes, and housed to have time for this much self-pity.

C'est comme un jeu. Répétitif. Un peu lassant, même, après plus de vingt ans. Mais j'ai connu des jeux bien pires.

Listen," Kate interrupted. "I am going to Italy to study Shakespeare , not to fall in love." The cell phone thrummed with silent disappointment. "In fact," she went on, "I consider myself lucky to have dated Jerome—" "Because you found the state of complete boredom restful?" Annie murmured.

Anyone can be bored or unfulfilled at virtually any job. How one chooses to respond to boredom is key. Most women are resourceful: when faced with boredom, they find a way out. That's an essential skill. Those who don't have it will suffer, to be sure, but that is not society's problem.

It's just very dull. Talking about yourself and about something that you've got less interest in than you had, because you've always moved on to something else.

When you have an iPad and 75 books on it, it's so easy to go, 'I'm bored, I'm just going to read something else.'

Facebook isn't helping you make new connections, Facebook doesn't develop new relationships, Facebook is just trying to be the most accurate model of your social graph. There's a part of me that feels somewhat bored by all of this.

I am truly bored with 99 per cent of conventional novels. I do think it's a somewhat desiccated form.

It's precisely in those moments when I don't know what to do, boredom drives one to try a host of possibilities to either get somewhere or not get anywhere.

I soon found law school an unmitigated bore.

Scholarship was one thing, drudgery another. I very soon concluded that nothing would induce me to read, let alone make notes on, hundreds and hundreds of very, very, very boring books.

Sooner barbarity than boredom.

Rap bores me, and all the glamour rock groups like Bon Jovi just amuse me. They obviously have a place, but they all sound like they use the same guitar player to me.

You listen to the radio and all the songs sound the same, from 8 in the morning to 12.

I don't know if this happens in all relationships, but I just got so sick of his all too familiar stories. I had heard these stories so many times that I could have recited them myself.

If you wait for luck to turn up, life becomes very boring.

Dear World, I am leaving because I am bored. I feel I have lived long enough. I am leaving you with your worries in this sweet cesspool. Good luck.

Avoidance of boredom is the only worthy mode of action. Life otherwise is not worth living.)