Quotes About Boredom

I had no interest in filming. I sometimes went to the studios with my dad, but it was slow-going; it was boring to watch. I always ended up in the rehearsal hall watching the dancing. That's what I liked to do.

It is so easy now to never get bored because we have our phones with us all the time and we are always looking at stuff. I think when we get bored we are the most creative.

People find ideas a bore because they do not distinguish between live ones and stuffed ones on a shelf.

I was walking around bored one day, and I started filming stuff with my cellphone. There are all these shows where people are trying to do these outrageous stunts, and I thought it would be funny to do all these stunts that aren't outrageous but then act like they are.

Money and investing can be complex, confusing, and often boring subjects.

Everybody talking about being afraid of being boring is boring. You have to go for the real substance of life after awhile.

The main thing I got from growing up in a suburb is the boredom you have as a child.

I grew up in such a featureless, personality-less suburb. There was nothing to push against.

Suburbia is too close to the country to have anything real to do and too close to the city to admit you have nothing real to do.

I truly believe that the boredom of illness is parlous to one's health

Darling, I'm so unutterably bored as to be a hazard

The only way the past can survive and maintain its continuity is through the constant demand to experience the same thing over and over. That is why life has become a bore. Life has become boring because we have made of it a repetitive thing. So what we mistakenly call the present is really the repetitive past projecting a fictitious future. Your goals, your search, your aspirations are cast in that mold.

En todos sus juegos dominan el horror y el peligro. Ellas se entregan sin reservas al drama. La vida monótona y protegida de la familia resulta aburrida, y todo está permitido con tal de mantener la emoción. La vida, sin la desgracia, es insoportable.

Listening to parents' advice is sort of like watching commercials. You know what's coming, you've heard it all before, it's a big bore, but you listen anyway

The trouble is that we have a bad habit, encouraged by pendants and sophisticates, of considering happiness as something rather stupid. Only pain is intellectual, only evil interesting. This is the treason of the artist: a refusal to admit the banality of evil and the terrible boredom of pain.

The law is a tedious profession and is relieves the boredom by its own little comedies

Life in this society being, at best, an utter bore and no aspect of society being at all relevant to women, there remains to civic-minded, responsible, thrill-seeking females only to overthrow the government, eliminate the money system, institute complete automation and destroy the male sex.

Too many church services start at eleven sharp and end at twelve dull.

Few things are more dangerous to a person's integrity than having nothing to do and plenty of time in which to do it.

It's hard to be bored when you're as stupid as a line.

This is no life. No life at all. But where is there any life? Nothing happens. Nothing goes on. Boring. Old. Dead. Ghastly." Every object around him was a sham. Whatever he took up turned to dust. The world was a crumbling affair not to be grasped or held. You fell from emptiness to emptiness. You carried around a sack of darkness inside you. Doctor Otternschlag lived in the uttermost loneliness - although the earth is full of people like him . . .

The dreams we had of finding meaning and fulfillment through our jobs have faded into the reality of professional politics, burnout, boredom and intense competition.

the bald details of the crimes themselves were as uninteresting as stew that had lost all its meat and fish

The search for identity in one's youth is a journey of alternate boredom and agony interrupted by flash of joy.