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Quotes About Boredom

As often with older people he was both bored and unaccountably involved at the same time.
~ Alan Hollinghurst
Eating was something to do to pass the time.
~ Derek Landy
I'm in my junior year but I can't take it anymore. The beige walls, the scent of linoleum and used lockers, the shrill bell between classes. High school is sucking the life out of me.
~ Diana Abu-Jaber
doubting their faith, and those just hanging on is that church or Christianity has failed them, wounded them, betrayed them, or maybe just bored them—and they do not want to
~ Diana Butler Bass
Really, these wizards! You'd think no one had ever had a cold before! Well, what is it?" she asked, hobbling through the bedroom door onto the filthy carpet. "I'm dying of boredom," Howl said pathetically. "Or maybe just dying.
~ Diana Wynne Jones
?imdi kim bilir nas?l s?k?c? bir ya?am bekliyordu?
~ Dino Buzzati
Being on the road has about 2 1/2 hours a day that are really great, and that's when you're onstage. The other 21 1/2 hours are very boring... It becomes like a void, and we chose to fill it with all the wrong things.
~ Don Felder
And, of course, it might simply be that everyone's become a little bored with one another, doing the same things over and over, hearing and telling the same stories.
~ Don Lee
Life in Australia is more equal and less competitive than in America; but there are dozens of similarities...migrations to a new land, the mystique of pioneering (actually somewhat different in the two countries), the turbulence of gold rushes, the brutality of relaxed restraint, the boredoms of the backblocks, the feeling of making life anew. There may be more similarities between the history of Australia and America than for the moment Australians can understand.
~ Donald Horne
If anybody wanted to photograph my life, they'd get bored in a day.
~ Matt Damon
No one who appreciates the shortness of this life and the eternality of the next can ever say, 'I'm bored'
~ Abu Ammaar Yasir Qadhi
Basically, my life is so boring, it's embarrassing.
~ Hugh Grant
It was life, often unsatisfying, frequently cruel, usually boring, sometimes beautiful, once in a while exhilarating.
~ Stephen King
Real life is sometimes boring, rarely conclusive and boy, does the dialogue need work.
~ Sarah Rees Brennan
Life swings like a pendulum backward and forward between pain and boredom.
~ Arthur Schopenhauer
Life creates itself in delirium and is undone in ennui.
~ Emile M. Cioran
My chronic feelings of emptiness and boredom came from the fact that I was living a life based on my incapacities, which were numerous.
~ Susanna Kaysen
The worst thing in life is boredom. When people don't know what to do with themselves, they are very, very poor.
~ Alice Herz-Sommer
If there wasn't mystery, people wouldn't have anything to ponder. If you already knew everything, you wouldn't have anything to think about and life would just be really boring.
~ Emma Roberts
For all the boredom the straight life brings, it's not too bad.
~ Gus Van Sant
Is it life, I ask, is it even prudence, To bore thyself and bore the students?
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
A story about my life would be utterly dull.
~ James McAvoy
I think that it's a crime to say you are bored when time is so precious and there are so many things to do in life: read, learn, watch.
~ Karl Lagerfeld
My life is spent in perpetual alternation between two rhythms, the rhythm of attracting people for fear I may be lonely and the rhythm of trying to get rid of them because I know that I am bored.
~ C. E. M. Joad