Quotes About Boredom

Boredom had not been among the dangers that the SOE had prepared him for. No pompous little officer had stood in front of his class and said, "Right, chaps, today we're going to learn how to deal with a particularly nasty little situation that secret agents tend to find themselves in: being bored abso-bloody-lutely rigid".

The glance embroiders in joy, knits in pain, and sews in boredom. When indifferent, the eye takes stills, when interested, movies. Laughter is regional: a smile extends over the whole face.

The most terrible thing about materialism, even more terrible than its proneness to violence, is its boredom, from which sex, alcohol, drugs, all devices for putting out the accusing light of reason and suppressing the unrealizable aspirations of love, offer a prospect of deliverance.

Disappointment raced through me. But then, what did I expect? 'Sephy, I could never be bored of you, with you, around you. You're exciting, scintillating, overwhelming company!' Yeah, right! Dream on, Sephy!!

When I'm not doing something that comes deeply from me, I get bored. When I get bored I get distracted and when I get distracted, I become depressed. It's a natural resistance, and it ensures your integrity.

Tu t'es beaucoup ennuyée? – Soixante-quatre voitures sont passées dans ta rue, dont dix-neuf vertes!

The idea of spending another six hours with Leon and his farts was more than I could take.

I've lived in a good climate, and it bores the hell out of me.

Over and over I thought we lack the pressures that make men strong and the anguish that makes men great. The pressures are debts, the desires are for more material toys and the anguish is boredom. Through time, the nation has become a discontented land.

The great drive of our people stems from insecurity. It is often considered that the violent interest in little games, the mental rat-mazes of contract bridge, and the purposeful strinking of little white balls with sticks, comes from an inner sterility. But more likely it comes from an inner complication. Boredom arises not so often from too little to think about, as from too much.

Driving is boring, Rabbit pontificates, but it's what we do. Most of American life is driving somewhere and then driving back wondering why the hell you went.

TV families and your own are hard to tell apart, except your isn't interrupted every six minutes by commercials and theirs don't get bogged down into nothingness, a state where nothing happens, no skit, no zany visitors, no outburst on the laugh track, nothing at all but boredom and a lost feeling, especially when you get up in the morning and the moon is still shining and men are making noisy bets on the first tee.

You can tell how boring a person is by the lack of fear in their eyes when someone is flipping through photos on their phone.

Boredom is... a vital problem for the moralist, since half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it.

Obsessing on evil is boring. Rousing fear is a hackneyed shtick. Wallowing is despair is a bad habit. Indulging in cynicism is akin to committing a copycat crime.

I fear the boredom that comes with not learning and not taking chances.

Nothing is more tedious than the dreaming platitude.

You never realize how boring your life is until someone asks what you like to do for fun...

Boredom is simply the absence of an interesting perspective.

We never realize how boring our life really is until someone asks you what you like to do for fun.

Life's a paradox. What you want, you don't get; what you get, you don't enjoy; what you enjoy isn't permanent; what is permanent, is boring...that's life!

Real life is such a boring experience. I want to live in my imagination.

All my life flashed before my eyes...it was really boring.

I feel like I'm just gonna spend my life working and then I'm just gonna die......how boring.