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Quotes About Boredom

Boredom, which had begun as a mild infection, now took him over completely.
~ Toni Morrison
A former-girlfriend told me, "He has great respect for women. And a blatant disrespect and disregard for women. Not when he's speaking to you, but in his actions. They're not genuine. He's not honest. He's not a good husband. He gets bored easily. He's not monogamous. He's very controlling. And he's not that sweet to them.
~ Touré
Oh, wow!" he groaned. "If you were a TV program, I'd switch channels.
~ Kerstin Gier
Una fiesta solo es aburrida en la medida en que lo son sus invitados.
~ Kerstin Gier
I'm not even supposed to be here today.
~ Kevin Smith
We're just bored," said Joseph. "That's the simplest answer. It's like, no matter where you are or what you're doing, you have to try like hell to keep from getting bored to death.
~ Kevin Wilson
I have also suffered famous bores, and sometimes been rewarded with behaviour so ridiculous that it becomes compelling.
~ Khushwant Singh
I'm not allowed to walk topside, nor can I walk below deck. What could possibly be left for me to do? Oh, I know. Die from boredom! (Serenity)
~ Kinley MacGregor
Quinn had also been there, attempting to demonstrate to her the incredible ennui that accompanied immortal existence.
~ Kirsten Beyer
People can endure almost anything but there's one thing they can't survive. Man is an animal that can't stand boredom
~ Koji Suzuki
It was sad to see the peasants' ingratitude. And their superstitions. And their stubbornness. And so on, and so on...a dust-covered and uninteresting skein of self-interest, low-grade passion, boredom, greedy impotence, and poverty.
~ Carlo Levi
É feia. Mas é uma flor. Furou o asfalto, o tédio, o nojo e o ódio.
~ Carlos Drummond de Andrade
Yo no comprendo cómo dice la gente que se aburre. A mí nunca me da tiempo para todo lo que quisiera hacer.
~ Carmen Martín Gaite
You think an essay should have a hypothesis, a conclusion, should argue points. You really do bore me.
~ Carole Maso
If you walk along the main street on an August afternoon there is nothing whatsoever to do.
~ Carson McCullers
See that?" said Lemon. "The car tracks turn off there." "How do you know it's not the parks people on a golf cart thingie?" "You don't golf, do you, Kate?" "No, I'm too young to die of boredom.
~ carsten stroud
I have a high pain threshold. In fact, it's more of a large and tastfully decorated foyer than a threshold. But I do get easily bored
~ Cassandra Clare
When we have made our love and gamed our gaming,   Drest, voted, shone, and maybe something more; With dandies dined, heard senators declaiming,   Seen beauties brought to market by the score, Sad rakes to sadder husbands chastely taming,   There's little left but to be bored or bore. Witness those ci-devant jeunes hommes who stem The stream, nor leave the world which leaveth them.
~ George Gordon Byron
In searching for the causes of war, don't overlook boredom.
~ George Hammond
The essence of boredom is to be found in the obsessive search for novelty. Satisfaction lies in mindful repetition, the discovery of endless richness in subtle variations on familiar themes.
~ George Leonard
A special effect without a story is a pretty boring thing.
~ George Lucas
Did you ever wonder why Spot runs so much? He's running away from Dick and Jane and Sally, the dullest family in the world.
~ George R.R. Martin
That's what they always ended up saying: "But I'm just sad." Feeling sad means having too much time on your hands, usually. Really. I'm not a licensed therapist but usually it means too much time.
~ George R.R. Martin
A siege is a deadly dull.
~ George R.R. Martin