Quotes About Boredom

En fait, je n'ai pas peur de l'inconnu. C'est just que ça m'ennuie de perdre ce que je connais.

To be fully awake is the condition for not being bored, or being boring—and indeed, not to be bored or boring is one of the main conditions for loving. To be active in thought, feeling, with one's eyes and ears, throughout the day, to avoid inner laziness, be it in the form of being receptive, hoarding, or plain wasting one's time, is an indispensable condition for the practice of the art of loving.

I think that the word bored does not get the attention it deserves. We speak of all sorts of terrible things that happen to people, but we rarely speak about one of the most terrible things of all : that is, being bored, being bored alone and, worse than that, being bored together.

Boredom is a horrible misfortune.  Let go, allow yourself to have fun.  Be silly at your own expense.  Any one of these ideas can cure the affliction of what to do when you're bored.  Share your experience to break the boredom of a friend.

threatened to bore them. That policy did not make for an active social life.

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Parabore (n.) A defense against bores. It would be a very lovely thing indeed if there existed some magical device that you could carry around with you to ward off bores. The closest thing to this I have seen is a contraption Alix gave me a few years back: a little black box on a key chain that will turn off every nearby TV with the push of a button. I carried it with me everywhere and used it whenever I came across that particular form of boredom. Paracme

He just cleaned the bathroom." "So?" "I've been sending samples into the lab when I got bored. They are as of yet unidentified. It never occurred to me to clean the damned thing." Whiskey sighed and pinched the bridge of his nose. "I know, I know, I know—you don't want to get blood all over it now that it's clean.

When a history book contains no lies it is always tedious.

Without lies, humanity would perish of despair and boredom

It is hard not to see into the future, faced with today's blind architecture - a thousand times more stupid and more revolting than that of other ages. How bored we shall be inside!

The most stupid thing that a man can do in life is be bored.

Matter of fact, the only certainty driving the economy is the certainty that boredom at faster and faster rates is inevitable.

Poetry is again hip in America as people are beginning to refuse to die of boredom and to choke in the fog of their funny money.

Boredom was my bedmate and it was hogging the sheets.

The boredom of the place had made of my mother such a devotee of television that I knew she would not come out to greet me if my arrival coincided with a dramatic moment on Donahue.

I can't be bothered to go to the gym, though. I honestly just can't be bothered - it's the most boring thing on Earth. I have tried and every six months I go 'right, I'm going to the gym'. Then I do it for two weeks and get so bored by it.

Usually I can go for three or four weeks and then I start to bake cakes or make jewellery and I think, 'hang on a minute, I'm obviously bored rigid. I need to get back out there.'

I get kind of bored on the treadmill, but I do it. And I do a little bit of weight training. I'm really into the BOSU ball. You have to balance on it, and I do weights and squats on it. I'm pretty good at it, I feel sort of like a Karate Kid.

So much of existence is so boring. To have little moments of stupidity is always welcome.

People in the world can never imagine the length of days to those in asylums. They seemed never ending, and we welcomed any event that might give us something to think about as well as talk of.

I have no desire to work my adrenal glands any harder than necessary. I like lazing around; it's pretty important to my well-being. But I also get bored, so that's when my culture-vulturing kicks in.

Years later, when I was working as a trolley wally in a supermarket, I tackled the boredom by talking to the customers in as many different accents as I could manage. I started with one that I didn't think would alert any suspicion - generic Asian - then moved on to Irish, Welsh, Australian and American.

Fame is a lot of fun, but it's not interesting. I loved being noticed and praised, even the banquets. But they didn't have anything that I wanted. After about six months, I found it boring.