Quotes About Boredom

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She saw dark, triumphant crimson in herself. What was making her glow so much? Boredom… Yes, in spite of everything there was fire under it, there was fire even when it represented death. Maybe this was the joy of living.

El domingo se levantaba más temprano aún para estar más tiempo sin hacer nada. El peor momento de su vida era el fin de la tarde de ese día: caía en una meditación inquieta, el vacío del domingo estéril.

Porque o tédio é de uma felicidade primária demais! E é por isso que me é intolerável o paraíso. E eu não quero o paraíso, tenho saudade do inferno! Não estou à altura de ficar no paraíso porque o paraíso não tem gosto humano!

So much news about the president's assets, the president's broadsides, the president's teeth, the president's business dealings, the president's shoes: it got boring.

She just stood there and looked at the empty highway, and you could almost tell how bored she was by the way she stood.

Here is a book so dull that a whirling dervish could read himself to sleep with it. If you were to recite even a single page in the open air, birds would fall out of the sky and dogs drop dead.

Because the trivial concerns oneself, one fails to see it might be boring.

It is isn't easy to make someone who hasn't experienced it understand what it feels like, this martyrdom of being judged, devalued, disqualified, and misrepresented by journalists writing in haste who are bored by reading and who, for that matter, hardly ever read anything anyway. —WITOLD GOMBROWICZ,

Curious how people can go on doing the same thing day after day!

And since, through lack of vocation or from habit, [Julie] was prone to confuse pity with boredom, she felt herself practically a prisoner...

A year and an instant are equivalent in a monotonous life.

Es ist gar keine Katze, sagte ich mir, nur die Verpelzung der graugestreiften Langeweile, die Geduld der Angst in einer schmalen Straße.

Boredom is fear's patience. Fear doesn't want to exaggerate. Only on occasion—and fear considers this very important—does it want to know how things stand with me.

O tédio é a paciência do medo.

Already a connoisseur of boredom, Tony extended his acquaintance with Salisbury's furnished lodgings and the cheap residential hotels of Andover.

I got bored," he says. "Besides, you know what's creepier than walking around your dead brothers' apartment? Sitting alone in a hearse in front of his apartment.

Haven't you watched the feeds?" Winter asked her, more gently. "Vampires like anything and everything that keeps them from getting bored. Anything and everything."

I can't believe I was worried magic school was going to be so dangerous," Call said, squinting at the sand pile. "You could die of boredom," said Aaron. Call snickered. Tamara looked up at them miserably. "The thought of that is the only thing that's going to keep me going.

Everything was boring. Everything was fine.

We're friends. Remember, we have the right to bore each other every now and then.

It is tedious to tell again tales already plainly told.

The rout, that dreary review of fashionable fineries, that parade of well-dressed self-infatuations, is one of those English inventions currently mechanifying the other nations. England seems determined to see the entire world bored just as she is, and just as bored as she.

I do know that about ten times as many people find their lives dull, and unnecessarily dull, as ever admit it; and I do believe that if we busted out and admitted it sometimes, instead of being nice and patient and loyal for sixty years, and then nice and patient and dead for the rest of eternity, why, maybe, possibly, we might make life more fun.