Quotes About Boredom

Nece biti manje dosadno ako napisem da je dosadno i velika smisla ne vidim u ovom, ali oko mene je tako pusto i prazno da je nuzno da nacinim bezutjesnu konstataciju, samo konstataciju:da sam bio i zivio i da mi je bilo neizmjerno dosadno.

Ni pisma nema, ni poruke iz daljine. Kao što, nažalost, nema ni?eg lepog ni neobi?nog ni uzbudljivog, nego samo jednoli?an život, bez ?uda i iznena?enja, satkan od prostih i oskudnih doga?aja, neodre?enih i nejasnih, a mu?nih i suvoparnih dužnosti i obaveza.

Hastings hunched at the rickety table in Interview Room C, doing a pretty good job of looking bored. The dribbles of sweat along his temples were the only sign he was feeling the heat. Eve dropped into the chair across from him, flashed a big, friendly smile. Hey. Thanks for dropping by. Kiss my white, dimpled ass. As tempting as that is, I'm afraid I'm not allowed to make such personal contact. You kicked my balls, you oughta be able to kiss my ass. Rules are rules.

What do you mean SOS?" "Same old shit, Dickie. It's always SOS with you.

examined her nails, picked idly at

Sabe bien que Dmitri se burla de él a sus espaldas. Dice que es "el hombre de razón", cuyas pasiones están siempre bajo control. Una vez Dmitri preguntó:"¿Qué mundo sería este si todos aceptáramos el imperio de la razón?". Y respondió: "Un mundo muy, muy aburrido". A él le gustaría replicar: "Tal vez sea aburrido, pero mejor que un mundo sometido al imperio de las pasiones".

Panting, he looked into a face he couldn't see. What the fuck is your problem? I'm bored. With that, she head-butted him right in the goddamn nose.

Why the hell do you care?" With a shrug, Mayhem replied, "I don't have anything better to do. And I haven't been allowed to watch TV for how long? Your drama is going to be my new favorite show.

do you think God made the world to amuse himself because he was bored? Because if so he would have to be mean.

Why did I allow myself to be bored ever in the past and to compensate for it got high or drunk or rages or all the tricks people have because they want anything but serene understanding of just what there is, which is after all so much.

All over America highschool and college kids thinking 'Jack Duluoz is 26 years old and on the road all the time hitch hiking' while there I am almost 40 years old, bored and jaded

Nothin to do, Oh poo! Practically blue.

God made the world to amuse himself because he was bored?

Art has been for me, when I did not deceive myself, a meager compensation for what I desire. I am bored with these frantic cravings, tired of them and therefore myself, and contemptuous, though tolerant, of all my vast powers of self-pity and self-expressive misery. What am I? What do I seek?

Initially, when I joined Twitter, I was active. But, later, I felt that whatever I was tweeting or saying on a social platform turned out to be a little boring.

Thanks to Twitter, iPads, BlackBerrys, voice-activated in-dash navigation systems, and a hundred other technologies that offer distraction anywhere, anytime, boredom has loosened its grip on us at last - that once-crushing 'weight' has become, for the most part, a memory.

I have played characters where I haven't been absorbed - you know, what I call a typical film leading man role where you just have to look gorgeous and be attractive and charming. It bores me. I like a bit of dirt, a bit of sand in the oyster.

When I was in Toronto shooting 'Hemlock Grove,' I'd spend a couple of hours in the makeup trailer every day because my character had all these tattoos. I was telling one of the artists how bored I was - I didn't really know anybody - and he said, 'Pick up a ukulele and start playing. They're 30 bucks for a cheap one.' And I did!

Isn't history ultimately the result of our fear of boredom?

Only the British could experience great pain at the thought of a traffic jam - a place where you can sit alone with your radio on without being expected to do any work. Aren't traffic jams unbearable? By the time you get home, you need to sit alone in a comfy chair with your favourite music on just to calm down.

Only now do I understand the war against boredom, the lost cause of empty hours, of empty days and nights.

A man who experiences no genuine satisfaction in life does not want peace. People court war to escape meaninglessness and boredom to be relieved of fear and frustration.

Life is boring. People are vengeful. Good things always end. We do so many things and we don't know why, and if we do find out why, it's decades later and knowing why doesn't matter any more.

Nothing is so stifling as symmetry. Symmetry is boredom, the quintessence of mourning. Despair yawns. There is something more terrible than a hell of suffering - a hell of boredom.