Quotes About Boredom

If you ever get bored, just go around reminding children that the cute animals from Ice Age are all extinct now.

'Mom...I'm bored.' 'Okay, if you're so bored why don't you clean this...' 'Nevermind I found something to do.'

I get bored with people so easily it's borderline ridiculous.

Being bored at home is worse than being bored on campus.

I wanted to be bored to death, as good a way to go as any.

The penalty of success is to be bored by people who used to snub you.

I'm afraid of nothing except being bored.

I'm the opposite of home sick, I'm sick of being home.

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.

If both of you don't keep trying new things to revive the relationship, eventually boredom and lack of newness will cause it to die.

Married women are just as capable of misery as singles, and single women are just as capable of happiness as married women. Both are capable of feeling loneliness and boredom and the weight of dependence.

I hate when I'm bored nobody texts me but when I'm busy my phone blows up.

I did not wish her to go on in this strain because her poverty was something which obsessed her and like all obsessions was boring to other people.

The American Dream was so simple and so optimistic that it required no psychoanalysis, no deep sea-diving. It was as shallow, boring, and sentimental as a bad television show that had somehow become a hit.

As with the Westerner, the Easterner was never so bored as he was when on his own shores.

He has asked himself sometimes if solitude is preferable to boredom or betrayal, which seemed to be the inevitable end of all happy love affairs, of all happy marriages. People clung to one another out of fear. K.D. has preferred the integrity of being alone. He was a realist, he is. He has the strength to face death alone.

If I could prescribe a single rule for looking at a work of art it would be to enjoy it. If we're honest with ourselves, we have to admit we enjoy our tears just as much as we enjoy our laughter. The only moments of life that are a bore are when we don't care one way or another.

How could you do such a thing to your husband?" Toni looked at Melisande with shocked eyes. "Quite simply because he bored me. He agreed with everything I ever said, and not once in our four years together did he give me a bruise. He knelt to me when I wanted him to dominate me. He let me make a fool of him with a dozen men, but Luque was, on that point, a perfect Spaniard. He turned his back on me and so I stabbed him!

Boredom is the legitimate kingdom of the philanthropic.

Travel is the most private of pleasures. There is no greater bore than the travel bore. We do not in the least want to hear what he has seen in Hong Kong.

Work saves us from three great evils: boredom, vice and need.

Rest is a good thing, but boredom is its brother.

Work keeps us from three great evils, boredom, vice, and poverty.

I would sooner read a timetable or a catalogue than nothing at all. They are much more entertaining than half the novels that are written.