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Quotes About Boredom

Any kind of work that involves the muscles and takes less care of the mind is boring.
~ Unknown
Nobody finds it more boring to read their own works like an author. It's not because they don't have time, but because they've been there more times than you can imagine.
~ Unknown
People are hungover from COVID isolation. Fighting seems to be the only option to eliminate boredom.
~ Unknown
The days fly by. I can smell the weekend already. The repetition of days is so boring to observe.
~ Unknown
The state of boredom must be avoided, because it kills more than war.
~ Unknown
No, I don't agree. Your home with Suyin would be quiet and peaceful and it would bore you out of your gourd.
~ Nalini Singh
Within twelve hours of the Sunday Herald hitting the streets, Golgotham suddenly found itself besieged by the young, bored, and semi-affluent.
~ Nancy A. Collins
The penalty for success is to be bored by the people who used to snub you.
~ Nancy Astor
The penalty of success is to be bored by people who used to snub you.
~ Nancy Astor
I used to complain to myself that life was so boring, that there was too much laundry to do, too many noses to wipe. Now there are not enough noses to wipe.
~ Nancy E. Turner
Boredom [is] a moral failing, the mark of a mind insufficiently stocked to occupy itself.
~ Nancy Kress
A vida é por vezes triste e muitas vezes aborrecida mas de vez em quando há groselhas no bolo.»
~ Nancy Milford
I am sometimes bored by people, but never by life.
~ Nancy Mitford
The atmosphere was so dull, the cactus I brought into work died. I was certain it died of boredom.
~ Nancy Warren
Hear "You are boring" as distant white laundry flapping in the breeze. Eventually
~ Natalie Goldberg
I was attending the University of Alberta. I was going to be a high school teacher, like my parents. I failed - no, I didn't fail a class, I just barely passed. I really didn't try. It was Canadian history, through the plays of the time. My God, those were boring plays.
~ Nathan Fillion
Kyo Sohma: angrily pointing at Yuki Just like I'll beat you one of these days Yuki: looking bored Wait wait I think I've heard this one before
~ Natsuki Takaya
Boredom is a problem,' he opined. 'Only if you're stupid,' the woman replied. 'They've got everything they need but for something to occupy their tiny minds.
~ Neal Asher
Boredom is a mask frustration wears.
~ Neal Stephenson
Are you in here for an actual reason? CARTER Pretty much. I don't remember what it is, but I'm sure I had one when I started down the hall … TOM Perfect. CARTER Oh, yeah, now I recall . Because I was bored in my office … (Beat.) Plus, you have nicer windows. TOM Feel free to open one and jump … LaBute, Neil (2004-11-29). Fat Pig: A Play (pp. 18-19). Faber & Faber. Kindle Edition.
~ Neil LaBute
Window panes that rattled under the lash of the wind for two months on end, rain that leaked beneath the doors, her husband out and drinking, electricity cut off and the radio shut down, the boredom, the quiet and incredible loneliness - Margaret Looney would remember when she first discovered love and wonder at how immense it must have been to be lasting so long.
~ Niall Williams
You searched through all my poets, From Sappho through to Auden, I saw the book fall from your hands, As you slowly died of boredom.
~ Nick Cave
A man who wants to die feels angry and full of life and desperate and bored and exhausted, all at the same time; he wants to fight everyone, and he wants to curl up in a ball and hide in a cupboard somewhere. He wants to say sorry to everyone, and he wants everyone to know just how badly they've all let him down.
~ Nick Hornby
A man who wants to die feels angry and full of life and desperate and bored and exhausted, all at the same time; he wants to fight everyone, and he wants to curl up in a ball and hide in a cupboard somewhere. He wants to say sorry to everyone, and he wants everyone to know just how badly they've all let him down.
~ Nick Hornby