Quotes About Boredom

Violence is spiritual junk food, and boredom is spiritual anorexia.

Life is exciting because of uncertainty. Certainty make it very dull and boring.

Eventually we all get tired of any and everything!

There is absolutely no worse death curse than the humdrum daily existence of the living dead.

Despair leads to boredom, electronic games, computer hacking, poetry and other bad habits.

Never believe a friend who offered you his friendship just because he was getting bored.

People fear nothing as much as boredom and they will do unimaginable things to make it go away.

We humans are unhappy in large part because we are insatiable; after working hard to get what we want, we routinely lose interest in the object of our desire. Rather than feeling satisfied, we feel a bit bored, and in response to this boredom, we go on to form new, even grander desires.

humans are unhappy in large part because we are insatiable; after working hard to get what we want, we routinely lose interest in the object of our desire. Rather than feeling satisfied, we feel a bit bored, and in response to this boredom, we go on to form new, even grander desires.

From the shade of the Ivy covered porch the old men sat in ladder back chairs and watched the hot blacktop. They'd sit day long and wait for something to happen, anything to happen, waiting for the road to entertain them. These were old man in clean shirts and suspenders and pants so roomy they could've held another old-timer and shoes split down the sides for comfort.

My boredom threshold is low at the best of times but I have spent more time being slowly and excruciatingly bored by children than any other section of the human race.

If you find yourself stimulated in any way by your portfolio performance, then you are probably doing something very wrong. A superior portfolio strategy should be intrinsically boring.

Man's condition ought to impel him to seek to discover whether there is a God and a solution to his predicament. But people occupy their time and their thoughts with trivialities and distractions, so as to avoid the despair, boredom, and anxiety that would inevitably result if those diversions were removed.

Novels are forged in passion, demand fidelity and commitment, often drive you to boredom or rage, sleep with you at night. They are the long haul. They are marriage. Stories, on the other hand, you can lose yourself in for a few weeks and then wrap up, or grow tired of and abandon and (maybe) return to later. They can cuddle you sweetly, or make you get on your knees and beg.

Novels are forged in passion, demand fidelity and commitment, often drive you to boredom or rage, sleep with you at night.

I can safely say, on the authority of all that is revealed in the Word of God, that any man or woman on this earth who is bored and turned off by worship is not ready for heaven.

What is it about actors? God knows I get bored with actors talking about themselves.

Against boredom the gods themselves fight in vain.

God was bored by him.

If truth were not boring, science would have done away with God long ago. But God as well as the saints is a means to escape the dull banality of truth.

After my study of today's church, my conclusion is that the church is politely bored with God.

God created woman. And boredom did indeed cease from that moment-but many other things ceased as well!

Boredom is why God invented books.

Thus people--so it seems to me-- Become good friends from sheer ennui.