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Quotes About Boredom

I wasn't going anywhere and neither was the rest of the world. We were all just hanging around waiting to die and meanwhile doing little things to fill the space. Some of use weren't even doing little things. We were vegetables.
~ Charles Bukowski
But you know, only boring people get bored. They have to prod themselves continually in order to feel alive.
~ Charles Bukowski
I was glad I wasn't in love, that I wasn't happy with the world. I like being at odds with everything. People in love often become edgy, dangerous. They lose their sense of perspective. They lose their sense of humor. They become nervous, psychotic bores. They even become killers.
~ Charles Bukowski
The young will never know how recklessly we went from bed to bed, from body to body, from night to night. it all, at times, became a bore.
~ Charles Bukowski
I get the blues for him, for me, for all of us: for want of something to do we keep slaying our small dragons as the big one waits.
~ Charles Bukowski
We all sat there and looked at each other and didn't look at each other. We chewed gum, drank coffee, went into restrooms, urinated, slept. We sat on the hard benches and smoked cigarettes we didn't want to smoke. We looked at each other and didn't like what we saw.
~ Charles Bukowski
Sunday, the worst god-damned day of them all.
~ Charles Bukowski
was glad I wasn't in love, that I wasn't happy with the world. I like being at odds with everything. People in love often become edgy, dangerous. They lose their sense of perspective. They lose their sense of humor. They become nervous, psychotic bores. They even become killers.
~ Charles Bukowski
Life is Tuesday afternoon in a cage.
~ Charles Bukowski
Maledetti noiosi. Su tutta la Terra. Che diffondono altri maledetti noiosi. Che spettacolo dell'orrore. La Terra ne brulicava.
~ Charles Bukowski
the world was molested with billions of people who had nothing to do with their time except murder it and murder you.
~ Charles Bukowski
actually, her life is boring and rather common but most are—mine is too except when lifted by whiskey
~ Charles Bukowski
I don't want to save the World, I don't even want to save me. We're so boring that we don't event want to save ourselves…There's nothing left to say, we're so fucking boring. Let it die I say. Let there be a new beginning…It's awful. Goodnight!
~ Charles Bukowski
News travels fast in places where nothing much ever happens. Ferris
~ Charles Bukowski
It felt good not to be part of that sort of thing. I was glad I wasn't in love, that I wasn't happy with the world. I like being at odds with everything. People in love often become edgy, dangerous. They lose their sense of perspective. They lose their sense of humor. They become nervous, psychotic bores. They even become killers.
~ Charles Bukowski
Ella disfrutaba la vida, o por lo menos eso parecía. Más tarde aquello no significaría mucho para mí, me refiero a su excitada y feliz reacción ante la vida, de alguna manera me acabaría irritando, dejándome sin ningún sentimiento. Ni siquiera me aburría.
~ Charles Bukowski
La monotonia, un lavoro fisso che non portava a niente, anime che cercavano altre anime per sfuggire ad imbarazzanti silenzi ed una città senza stimoli che cercava di camuffare la noia dietro falsi sorrisi, musica assordante e belle gambe inavvicinabili. Niente di buono. Ma era incredibile come la gente riusciva ad adattarsi
~ Charles Bukowski
Certains ne deviennent jamais fous... Leurs vies doivent être bien ennuyeuses
~ Charles Bukowski
El mundo se ha llevado de mí muchas horas y años con sus tareas anodinas y rutinarias
~ Charles Bukowski
what she doesn't realize is that - usually - only boring people get bored.
~ Charles Bukowski
and I was reminded....of the everday boredom of a life in espionage. One is always waiting for someone who does not show up,for something that does not happen.
~ Charles McCarry
It's a bit like cricket," Pete agrees. "Weeks of endless boredom interspersed with the occasional moment of existential terror.
~ Charles Stross
After a couple of years of death by bureaucratic snu-snu (too many committee meetings, too many tedious IT admin jobs)
~ Charles Stross
Relationships without hiccups were too boring, so inevitably they had to end. Don't get comfortable. Uncomfortable and not knowing had become my comfort zone. I was always looking for an ultimatum - a way to test someone's commitment, to prove they would disappoint me, and if they didn't do anything wrong, I would find a way to prove they were disappointing before they even had a chance to be.
~ Chelsea Handler