Quotes About Boredom

And perhaps you should get some new stories, so I don't fucking kill myself of boredom.

When you talk you talk with the little lying tips of your tongues. You dont dare lay bare your real souls. . . . But now you must listen to me for the last time. . . . For the last time I say. . . . Come here waiter you too, lean over and look into the black pit of the soul of man. And Herf is bored. You are all bored, bored flies buzzing on the windowpane. You think the windowpane is the room. You dont know what there is deep black inside.

S?radan insan uygarl???n lanetidir.

One of the commonest symptoms of wealth today is destructive neurosis; in his century it was tranquil boredom

Boredom, the numbing, annual predictability of life hung over the staff like a cloud. And it was real boredom, not my modish ennui. From it flowed cant, hypocrisy, and the impotent rage of the old who know they have failed and the young who suspect that they will fail. The senior masters stood like Gallows sermons; with some of them one had a sort of vertigo, a glimpse of the bottomless pit of human futility

It's just depositions," Jake had said. "You'll be bored out of your mind. Death by deposition.

Francis, however, was tired and bored. He kept yawning and wanted to retire to his chamber before the end of the meal.

YOUR BOREDOM IS YOUR PROBLEM, said Owen Meany. IT'S YOUR LACK OF IMAGINATION THAT BORES YOU. HARDY HAS THE WORLD FIGURED OUT. TESS IS DOOMED. FATE HAS IT IN FOR HER. SHE'S A VICTIM; IF YOU'RE A VICTIM, THE WORLD WILL USE YOU. WHY SHOULD SOMEONE WHO'S GOT SUCH A WORKED-OUT WAY OF SEEING THE WORLD BORE YOU? WHY SHOULDN'T YOU BE INTERESTED IN SOMEONE WHO'S WORKED OUT A WAY TO SEE THE WORLD? THAT'S WHAT MAKES WRITERS INTERESTING!

return trips, to this day...are simply invitations to dull trances or leaden slumber

The last of a train of psychiatrists would claim to have rehabilitated her, but Pooh Percy may simply have emerged from analysis—and a number of institutions—too thoroughly bored with rehabilitation to be violent anymore.

Is he using terror to keep away boredom? Does he have to try to destroy something? Even as a last resort, himself?

There was nothing even faintly exciting about this work; it was pure tedium, and pure boredom. And yet every step involved contact with something that could kill, and every step involved passion.

Boredom is the dream bird that hatches the egg of experience. A rustling in the leaves drives him away.

sometimes I was so bored that I started arguments just to experience the rush of almost losing him.

Probably, if you are successful in this world you are stressed, and if you are a failure, you are bored!

Defeat is a thing of weariness, of incoherence, of boredom, and above all futility.

Boredom lies only with the traveler's limited perception and his failure to explore deeply enough. After a while, I found my perception limited.

Too bored to stay home. Too lazy to go out.

No you don't miss me. You're just bored.

LIFE can be so boring without someone to rely on. LIFE can be so exciting with someone who can understand it. But without a clear judgement into whom you want to be with, LIFE is a mess indeed.

Being bored isn't so boring because being bored brings quiet moments, quiet moments make you think and quiet moments can be the best moments maybe one of the best moments that can change your life.

The king of Argos made a noise of disgust. "I'm sick to death of this tale about your marriage bed." "Then perhaps you shouldn't have suggested I tell it." "And perhaps you should get some new stories, so I don't fucking kill myself of boredom.

so I don't fucking kill myself of boredom

Boredom is humiliating, like desire erupting out of place.