Quotes About Boredom

I tend to like poems that engage me - that is to say, which do not bore me.

I do not want to be bored listening to music that is muffled and known only to the poet himself.

Boredom is a very self-conscious emotion by definition. Interest is not. So you can actually be completely absorbed in something and, at certain points in your development, not even realize that you're into it.

After my first year of college, each course I took in every field was so boring that I didn't even go to the classes.

I would be very, very bored doing light little comedies for my entire career.

I love movies, of course. 'Terminator 3' and 'Bad Boys II' - lots of action. Sports movies, action movies, comedies - I'll go to those, but not 'las de amor.' Not romance. It's not that I don't like love, but on the screen it bores me.

When I was a child, I wanted to watch things that made me laugh. It's attacking boredom, as simple as that. I was 19 when I first went to a comedy club - I wanted to do it, so I gave it a try and that was it. I found my office.

I'm a pretty boring guy. Compared to Ashton Kutcher, I live a really boring existence.

Different kinds of people have different motivations for filling out surveys. Sometimes you would have a group of people who just would fill it out because they're bored, and they don't have anything to do. Or they would just genuinely want to know what is their personality.

I don't live anywhere. I have always dreamed of moving out of my country because Sweden is boring.

Boredom is what happens to people who have no control over their minds.

Ik verveel me niet. Ik ben ongelukkig.' 'Omdat je in geluk gelooft. Iedereen die in geluk gelooft is ongelukkig.

Idle people are often bored and bored people, unless they sleep a lot, are cruel. It is not accident that boredom and cruelty are great preoccupations in our time.

Aldo said he was bored to tearsies by my grandmother's diminutives.

His lawyer looks bored," I said. Jim reached for his drink. "You always try to look bored," he said, "when your client is committing perjury.

That is always a triumph, to evade boredom.

Lady Pamela Sutton stared at the dreary government-issued posters on the wall of her small cubicle in Hut 3.

It's strange having nothing to do expect be waited on.

Desde luego, los domingos son idiotas.

One good question and one good answer are services to all. A sure sign of a troubled company is one where employees don't care enough to ask and, if that's the case, they'll never care enough to fully deploy their talent. Just as curiosity is an antidote to boredom and indifference, the informed are more likely to remain interested, engaged, and alive with purpose.

If at any point you discover yourself hesitating, or being incongruent, or putting off until tomorrow something you could try now, or just needing some new choices, or being bored, glance over your right shoulder and there will be two madmen there, sitting on stools, insulting you.

Amateur psychiatric prognosis can be fascinating when there is absolutely nothing else to do.

This sense of entitlement contributes mightily to sloppiness, to low incentive, to boredom, to bad choices, to instant gratification, to constant demands for more, and to all kinds of addictions (including the addiction to technology).

In medieval times, if someone displayed the symptoms we now identify as boredom, that person was thought to be committing something called acedia , a 'dangerous form of spiritual alienation' -- a devaluing of the world and its creator.