Quotes About Boredom

I write... sonnets... and writing sonnets is boring. You have to find rhymes; you have to write hendecasyllables; so after a while, I get bored and my drawer is overflowing with unfinished short poems.

Although I did admire David Foster Wallace's final unfinished novel about boredom, I'm no DFW, and I want my books to be exciting, not boring.

I'm sure, in real life, spying is boring - there's probably a lot of sitting around and plenty of paperwork. But the world seems to think that spying is exciting, and that's how movies get made.

I train with joy and fun, because if I'm not persuaded by the squad at my disposal, I try changing things around, moving players into new positions, and trying something different; otherwise, I get bored.

Ricky Gervais captured the staggering laziness that comes with a boring job.

A lot of newspapers say, Terence Stamp is playing himself and we're as bored as he is.

I see something that seems like standard fare, that I can imagine any number of actors playing, and I'm generally not interested.

Just standing around looking beautiful is so boring.

I don't know if I'd want to be a Secret Service agent. In the movies, it's exciting and romantic and all that. Really, most of their job is standing in a hallway for 12 hours making sure somebody doesn't come through a doorway off of a stairwell.

The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore.

When men are not regretting that life is so short, they are doing something to kill time.

Probably the difference between man and the monkeys is that the monkeys are merely bored, while man has boredom plus imagination.

A man may forgive many wrongs, but he cannot easily forgive anyone who makes it plain that his conversation is tedious.

The loudest sound on earth, she thought, is a man with nothing to do.

The average man gets his living by such depressing devices that boredom becomes a sort of natural state to him.

Death: Human beings make life so interesting. Do you know, that in a universe so full of wonders, they have managed to invent boredom.

Sheila thought that passion was a story people dreamed up to save themselves from boredom

who says we can't touch ourselves to keep from getting bored? nothing else is touching thats for sure

I tried for a while to be an agricultural worker and was hopelessly bored. To me it was meaningless. I would stand around in heaps of manure and sings about the beauty of the work I wasn't doing.

The man who suspects his own tediousness is yet to be born.

It was strange how in no time at all everybody went from fear to being excruciatingly bored, and the very women who yesterday had been helpless victims and just minutes earlier were howling in fright, now began to advance on him threatening with their fists and saying: 'Git on out of here, you old skunk!' Which shows something about the way a female is put together; she will suffer any outrage so long as it is interesting, but bore her and she don't know fear.

I've got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom.

I've got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom.

I find nice people kind of boring.