Quotes About Boredom

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

Adulthood feels like walking around in the desert with a bag over your head, being bumped into by people who rob you as they bore you.

If I wanted to be bored by 6,000 pages of unreadable dreck, I'd read War and Peace four times.

It's all there-the boredom, the devotion, the horror and even the humor in an industrial war fought on a global scale that we'll never see again. Unit histories just do not get any better.

The ability for anyone in our generation to self-amuse has sadly been bred out of our species.

Oh, come on. Drama is just life with the dull bits cut out.""Well, I'm ready for a long patch of boredom.

I got bored, " he says. "Besides, you know what's creepier than walking around your dead brothers' apartment? Sitting alone in a hearse in front of his apartment.

You've already said you were going to kill me, " Alex said, "but I didn't think that meant you were going to bore me to death.

Love alone is not enough. Without imagination, love stales into sentiment, duty, boredom. Relationships fail not because we have stopped loving but because we first stopped imagining.

Someone has somewhere commented on the fact that millions long for immortality who don't know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon.

One should only see a psychiatrist out of boredom.

I would rather be confused for 10 minutes than bored for 5 seconds.

I tired of the routine of eight years in one afternoon.

Remember—boredom is the enemy, not some abstract "failure.

A long visit to a friend is often a great bore. Never make people twice glad.

This existential vacuum manifests itself mainly in a state of boredom.

Boredom is a lack of crazy. Its a lack of creativity. Invention. Innovation. If you're bored, blame yourself.

Playing with them was boring, and it wasn't even their fault. It was just the notion of playing itself. She had never gotten the hang of it, even when she was a child. You needed to be able to adopt a personality other than your own in order to fully immerse yourself in the world of play, and it was burden enough carrying her own self around.

Small town. Not a lot to do. You either got married, drunk, or pregnant, not necessarily in that order.

Dr Howell drank from the special cup which was tied around the handle with red cotton to distinguish the staff cups from those of the patients, and thus prevent the interchange of disease like boredom loneliness authoritarianism.

I always get bored with my hair. That's why I would always change it throughout my career.

Please excuse my little sister. She's got quite an imagination. Annie, you're just jealous because I come up with great stories and you're so boring.

You can only work exactly the same way, at the same pace, doing the same work for so long before monotony bites.

Naturally, I asked him what it'd been like to live through Pinochet's coup and the fall of Allende. Naturally, he regarded me with an expression of utter boredom; then he said: 'Like a Marx Brothers' movie, but with corpses. Unimaginable pandemonium.