Quotes About Boredom

How much sooner one tires of anything than of a book!

A história, a história solene e real, não me interessa nada. E a si? - Eu adoro a história. - Como a invejo! Li um pouco de história, por dever; mas nela só encontro motivos de irritação ou de aborrecimento: querelas de papas e de reis, guerras e pestes em cada página, homens que não valem grande coisa, e quase nenhumas mulheres - é muito fastidioso!

She drank her juice and coffee as she dressed, feeling reluctant and yet relieved. The desert, a derelict gold-mining town, a day in the heat both bored and frightened her. Wide awake she could not be quite so resolute, but two days in the isolation of her work had made her value human company. She was through with silence and righteous indignation.

stupefied boredom.

A half hour later I was back in the very same parking space, feeling much more comfortable and twice as bored. I'd brought a book back with me, but it was hard to read and sweat at the same time, and sweating took precedence.

I don't like sitting around sets - I don't like the unpredictability of it.

Any actor has their moments of being stressed, but the great part about this job is that it's so unpredictable, and that's what I like. I love spontaneity. I don't ever want to be bored, doing the same thing from 9 to 5.

I've often noticed that there is a moment when a man develops enough confidence and ease in a relationship to bore you to death. Sometimes one hardly even notices it's happened, that moment, until some careless remark arouses one's suspicions.

Being a lifeguard was boring. Bo-ring. It was an indoor pool and it's so hot and humid in there. All you can do is sit there - you can't have music on because you need to pay attention and not be distracted. So you're just sat there, you're looking at people swim up and down, up and down. That was so boring.

The reason most kids don't like school is not that the work is too hard, but that it is utterly boring.

Work is making a living out of being bored.

Work is the world's easiest escape from boredom and the only surefire road to success.

Work won't do me any good ... I've tried it, and it bored me worse than the other thing.

I never work out. I think it is boring, so I run.

Work is the province of cattle.

Many people, especially women, never experience boredom because they have never learned to work properly.

I am blackly bored when they are at large and at work; but somehow I am still more blackly bored when they are shut up in Holloway and we are deprived of them.

Once I found these sticker things for your nails - Sally Hansen - those were really fun to do. They're really fun to do when you're bored, and it's better than painting your nails because you don't mess up. It looks really good, very professional. I tried a zebra one that was really pretty, but I always get a little bored of it.

I know I said I wanted to live forever and I would never be bored, but the reality is, it's probably kind of sad to live forever if you're the only one sticking around.

You can actually be bored stiff while you're dying.

I went to college, grad school. I got an M.B.A., had a really cush corporate job. But I was just bored stiff. I didn't fit that mold.

The stimulation I get from my phone does not feel like the opposite of boredom to me. It actually feels like a different flavor of boredom... a twitchier flavor. And sometimes, it's almost more irritation than stimulation. It's an itch.

Amusement is a way of boredom-avoidance through external stimulation that fails to exercise our minds. It's mere diversion.

I barely can go shopping for clothes. I find it difficult to walk into stores. The whole thing bores me so much.