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Quotes About Boredom

It has taken four billion years of evolution to generate this kind of organism with this kind of brain, and yet we wake up in the morning and feel bored.
~ Stephen Batchelor
Boredom is simply romanticism with a morning-after thirst.
~ Samuel Hopkins Adams
Poor tired Tim! It's sad for him He lags the long bright morning through, Ever so tired of nothing to do.
~ Walter de La Mare
Beware of monotony; it's the mother of all the deadly sins.
~ Edith Wharton
My sisters were sent away because my mother thought they were boring. I was not boring.
~ Karl Lagerfeld
Boredom, not the will, is the mother of change. Necessity is the father.
~ Mason Cooley
Obesity is a mental state, a disease brought on by boredom and disappointment.
~ Cyril Connolly
We decided to start our own group because we were bored with everything we heard... Everything was 10th-generation Led Zeppelin... Overproduced, or just junk. We missed music like it used to be.
~ Joey Ramone
Teens think listening to music helps them concentrate. It doesn't. It relieves them of the boredom that concentration on homework induces.
~ Marilyn vos Savant
For the past couple of years I've been pretty bored with music in general... just bored with it.
~ Les Claypool
Tried living in the real world instead of a shell, but I was bored before I even began.
~ Morrissey
This world, I am afraid, is designed for crashing bores.
~ Morrissey
As a music listener, I'm becoming more and more ADD - like, "Eh, I'm bored with this". So who knows how long I'll be playing music.
~ Chaz Bundick
Man is by nature restless. When left too long in one place he will inevitably grow bored, unmotivated, and unproductive.
~ Ricardo Semler
Nature is unfair? So much the better, inequality is the only bearable thing, the monotony of equality can only lead us to boredom.
~ Francis Picabia
And film acting is incredibly tedious, just by its nature. It's incredibly, mind numbingly slow.
~ Hugh Grant
... nature photographs downright bore me for some reason or other. I think: 'Oh, yes. Look at that sand dune. What of it?'
~ Walker Evans
A lot of impulsive mistakes are made by people who simply aren't willing to stay bored a little longer.
~ Paul Aurandt Jr.
Boredom and stupidity and patriotism, especially when combined, are three of the greatest evils of the world we live in.
~ Robertson Davies
I wanted to get that sense of peace and even boredom that comes with long familiarity.
~ Debbie Reynolds
Before, for me, peace could have been synonymous with boredom.
~ Isabelle Adjani
Boredom is peace misunderstood.
~ Marty Rubin
Everything smaller than Heaven bores us because only Heaven is bigger than our hearts.
~ Peter Kreeft, Jesus-Shock
The most total opposite of pleasure is not pain but boredom, for we are willing to risk pain to make a boring life interesting.
~ Peter Kreeft, Jesus-Shock