Quotes About Boredom

now, with too much idle time on his hands, he was a lost boy.

Without economic concerns the fool dies from boredom.

The pessimists prophesy a future of rubble, but the optimistic prophets are even more horrifying when they proclaim the future city where baseness and boredom dwell, in intact beehives.

The dreadful burden of having nothing to do.

It is commonly supposed that the art of pleasing is a wonderful aid in the pursuit of fortune; but the art of being bored is infinitely more successful.

Francis Galton (1822-1911), Darwin's cousin, was keen on evolution and heredity. He founded "Individual Differences" and discovered the uniqueness of finger-prints (1892). Galton was also an obsessive counter and measurer. He even counted yawns and coughs at lectures and theatres – trying to produce a "boredom measure"!

At the end of the table, the secretary was reading the decision in some case, but in such a mournful and monotonous voice, that the condemned man himself would have fallen asleep while listening to it. The judge, no doubt, would have been the first of all to do so, had he not entered into an engrossing conversation while it was going on.

It is dull in this world, gentlemen!

One cannot expect men not to get drunk when there is nothing to do!

Katerina Lvovna lived a boring life in the rich house of her father-in-law during the five years of marriage to her unaffectionate husband; but, as often happens, no one paid the slightest attention to this boredom of hers.

Boredom would bring on dreaminess, dreaminess would stir the restless imagination, and the restless imagination might paint any picture and cause just about anything.

Hard work never killed anybody!" Sometimes when Aunt Hester droned on about it I used to think to myself, Maybe not, but hearing about it is killing me! Of course I daren't say it, and of course nobody ever did die of boredom or great-aunt Hester would have been knee-deep in corpses.

I was boring myself. That's the worst part of a bad date. It makes you feel like a toad, and you keep telling yourself, "I know I'm more fun than this, and I know that when I came into this café I wasn't in despair about the human condition.

The war between being and nothingness is the underlying illness of the twentieth century. Boredom slays more of existence than war.

If I find a film dull, I find it infinitely more entertaining to watch the scratches.

Many books are longer than they seem. They have indeed no end. The boredom that they cause is truly absolute and infinite.

Hayat, dü?ünceleri tutan bir hapishanedir. ?nsan, can s?k?c? bir saç demetidir, ben de ak?ls?z bir robotum…

Selim, insan?n yarat?c? hayal gücünü öldürüyordu. Kambur duru?u, da??n?k saçlar? ve ütüsüz elbisesiyle Selim, insan? can s?k?nt?s? ve ümitsizli?e sürüklüyordu. ?nsan ona bak?nca, gerçi bir süre kendinden memnun oluyordu; fakat sonunda can? s?k?l?yordu.

What are you up to?" "I was trying to climb that tree. But I fell. Now I'm bored.

Ma seule distraction est d'aller, le dimanche, au sortir de la messe, chez Mme Gouin, l'épicière… Le dégoût m'en éloigne, mais l'ennui, plus fort, m'y ramène.

No me agrada esta calma, este silencio muerto, sin carne, puro hueso.

I don't pray because I don't want to bore God.

No rezo porque no quiero aburrir a Dios

My own business always bores me to death; I prefer other people's.