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Quotes About Boredom

boredom dulls your ability to make the right decisions. Boredom creeps up on you slowly, wraps its tendrils around you and tugs at you in such a subtle yet constant way, you'll do anything to escape it. You'll behave recklessly and stupidly.
~ Alison Gaylin
Mount Shady is a lovely town, but it's also homogenous and boring, and boredom dulls your ability to make the right decisions. Boredom creeps up on you slowly, wraps its tendrils around you and tugs at you in such a subtle yet constant way, you'll do anything to escape it. You'll behave recklessly and stupidly. You'll trust the wrong people, with disastrous results. Emily would still be alive if we'd stayed in New York.
~ Alison Gaylin
Boredom creeps up on you slowly..wraps its tendrils around and tugs you until you'll do anything to escape it.
~ Alison Gaylin
There are six reasons anyone does anything: Love. Faith. Greed. Boredom. Fear..." he said, ticking them off on his fingers; but he lingered on the last, drawing a deep breath before he said, "Revenge.
~ Ally Carter
Here's the thing you need to know about surveillance: it's boring. Sure, sometimes we blow stuff up and jump off buildings and/or moving trains, but most of the time we just hang around waiting for something to happen (a fact that almost never makes it into the movies), so I might have felt pretty silly if I were a normal girl and not a highly trained secret-agent-type person as I sat on that park bench, trying to act normal when, by definition, I'm anything but.
~ Ally Carter
Maybe Justin, my students, spoiled me for people my own age, usually so boring, talking about their endless health problems, pros/cons of being cremated, not realizing they're already dead in the most tragic way.
~ Alma Luz Villanueva
Todo me dolía hasta que me cansé también de eso, porque con el tiempo, el dolor aburre
~ Almudena Grandes
People of Wealth and the so called upper class suffer the most from boredom.
~ George Sanders
Around the year 2000, countries such as France, the Netherlands and the US were already five times as wealthy as in 1930. Yet nowadays our biggest challenges are not leisure and boredom, but stress and uncertainty.
~ Rutger Bregman
'Law and Order' is completely story-driven and completely characterless, really. If you do that format for five years and you're an actor, you're bound to get bored. It wears on you. And it was really wearing on me.
~ Chris Noth
I find that screen kissing wears very thin very quickly.
~ John Hughes
Conversation about the weather is the last refuge of the unimaginative.
~ Oscar Wilde
I'm a bit done with weddings. There are so many and I'm so bored of them.
~ Joe Lycett
Why do I do this every Sunday? Even the book reviews seem to be the same as last week's. Different books same reviews.
~ John Osborne
I found out animation is incredibly boring. You draw and draw and draw, and it's only a few seconds done in a week.
~ Caroll Spinney
As a kid, I thought movies were boring. My parents would hire VHS recorders for the weekend and watch Bollywood movies. I'd get bored and go out to Stoke Newington common to play football.
~ Asif Kapadia
Most members of Congress are politicians. They're bores.
~ Ray Bradbury
Personally, I have as little to do with politicians as possible. The ones that I've met I've found very boring. They're extremely egotistical, incredibly self-important. If I can help it, I try to stay as far away from them as possible.
~ Peter Capaldi
I like laying by the pool but I do tend to get a bit bored after a couple of days chilling out.
~ Craig Revel Horwood
Boredom and sexual desire are a potent and explosive combination, and people will certainly risk their lives to exit a grey and boring life.
~ Lawrence Osborne
Not everything is about causing controversy. That would be a very boring way to go.
~ Derren Brown
We always want to do covers, but we found it kind of boring to do covers of bands in our genre, and we were always asked to do those.
~ M. Shadows
Boredom, after all, is a form of criticism.
~ Wendell Phillips
It seems like every year Hollywood makes an attempt to retell the Manson story, and I just couldn't be less interested in it. It's not really our crowning achievement as a civilisation. I'm not saying it shouldn't be done, but it just bores me.
~ John Hawkes