Quotes About Boredom

I think people are curious at some level, and they want to alter their current state of being. I mean, that could be from curiosity, that could be from stress, that can be from some other sort of ailments or problem that they are experiencing or could just be from boredom, but humans have always attempted to alter their consciousness.

I had fears going into television that it might become boring to me, and I always like to be challenged, push myself. You do a film, and you know where you're going; you have this material to stretch and play with as much as possible because you know how it ends.

I have never been able to hold onto a really strict gym regime because I get bored.

I was getting bored and, I think, being a real pest. I remember Brando coming and sitting on the bed and cutting out the most exquisite paper fish, with detailed scales and fins. Then he took a hotel pen and a piece of string and made a fishing pole.

I liked 'Diff'rent Strokes' up until about the last three or four years. I was bored.

A ContraPoints video is never going to be framed as 'I'm so offended by this idea.' It's not, 'I'm so intimidated by my opponent's big, masculine brain.' It's more, 'I'm bored of you, and also, you're a dum-dum.'

I seem to have a missing gene when it comes to organized sports. Televised events bore me and I literally fear the crowds at live matches.

Most of the movies nominated for Oscars put me to sleep.

He is not only dull in himself, but the cause of dullness in others.

I just don't want to end up on something that bores the hell out of me. Otherwise, I'll fake a knee injury and get out of there.

Gee, its lonesome in the outfield. It's hard to keep awake with nothing to do.

I remember making my own dog food and feeling very fulfilled by it, then by day four I was over it.

He was tired of having only three channels.

We bore ourselves in order to earn money that we'll later spend on trying to de-bore ourselves

It was as though the problems of the Republic bored the man appointed to solve them, as though Rome herself were now too small a stage for his ambitions

Zeg nooit: ik heb mij zitten vervelen. Zeg: verveling maakte een relevant onderdeel uit van de opgeroepen emoties.

We are bored in the city, to still discover mysteries on the signs along the street, latest state of humor and poetry, requires getting damned tired... Gilles Ivain (aka Ivan Chtcheglov)

human emotions are a bother, but we'd be bored stiff without them!

The days stretch on, impossible and unfathomable. I wonder how can life be simultaneously so incredibly boring and so impossibly miraculous. The first of us to fall asleep wakes up the other.

Traveling can be boringly slow sometimes, even if you are effectively traveling at speeds faster than light.

Boredom is the coward's reaction to staring at a wall.

defensiveness bores me, because it all sounds the same.

What was the fun of being upper-class if you had to work so hard to appear bored all the time?

This papaya tastes boring. I guess I normally like papaya. But this one is sort of boring all the way through. Like eating water. Boring water. I wonder when it will be sun time. Maybe I should try a different papaya after this one. But what if the next papaya is boring, too?