Quotes About Boredom

He was succeeding admirably in communicating his own boredom to his audience.

Eternal Boredom Of The Strifeless Mind

Life is so interesting that sometimes it can make you bored.

He is not only dull himself, but the cause of dulness in others.

Everything intelligent is so boring.

I'm rather bored by the subject - meaning me. It's a sort of a yoke, but at times you know, a yoke is a kind of comfort. And it's always there.

Cuán necesario es el aburrimiento previo, para que la curiosidad

The only thing worse than being bored is being boring.

Whenever Gaubert felt bored, he took hold of the hammer with both hands, raised it, and struck the anvil. He went on like that, for no purpose, just for the sound, to hear the sound. His life was in each of those strokes. The sound of the anvil echoed through the countryside and sometimes came upon Panturle while he was hunting.

Idleness is many gathered miseries in one name.

Someone enjoying a good perve, no doubt. Well, and why not? There wasn't much else to enjoy, these days.

Life is monotonous enough at best; you have to eat and sleep about so often. But imagine how DEADLY monotonous it would be if nothing unexpected could happen between meals.

because he's so boring he makes you yawn just thinking about him.

Despair is a tedious business and quickly becomes repetitive.

finally realized that my fear was boring. Mind you, my fear had always been boring to everybody else, but it wasn't until mid-adolescence that it became, at last, boring even to me. My fear became boring to me, I believe, for the same reason that fame became boring to Jack Gilbert: because it was the same thing every day.

Later in life he reported that he had found his fame boring—not because it was immoral or corrupting, but simply because it was exactly the same thing every day.

El miedo es aburrido

Later in life he reported that he had found his fame boring—not because it was immoral or corrupting, but simply because it was exactly the same thing every day. He was looking for something richer, more textured, more varied. So he dropped out.

In a world where thrushes sing and willow trees are golden in the spring, boredom should have been included among the seven deadly sins.

For a time Emerson politely endeavored to conceal his boredom - like most men, he is profoundly disinterested in all children except his own - ...

What Susie cannot grasp is that for Anna, to achieve her independence from living off Susie's money through marrying a rich man, she is merely exchanging one form of enslavement for another and all within a social set that bores Anna to distraction.

Madness is too glamorous a term to convey what happens to most people who are losing their minds. That word is too exciting,too literary, too interesting in its connotations, to convey the boredom, the slowness, the dreariness, the dampness of depression.

I want to be bored. But I can't. But I really don't want to be this thing that I'm having to be instead of being bored.

A prison is a prison, he says. Whatever you fill the time with.