Quotes About Boredom

Alice was beginning to get very tired of sitting by her sister on the bank, and of having nothing to do: once or twice she had peeped into the book her sister was reading, but it had no pictures or conversations in it, "and what is the use of a book," thought Alice, "without pictures or conversation?

was beginning to get very tired of sitting by her sister on the bank, and of having nothing to do: once or twice she had peeped into the book her sister was reading, but it had no pictures or conversations in it, "and what is the use of a book

bank, and of having nothing to do: once or twice she had peeped into the book her sister was reading, but it had no pictures or conversations in it, 'and what is the use of a book,' thought Alice 'without pictures or conversation?' So she was considering in her own mind (as well as she could, for the hot day made her

on the bank, and of having nothing to do: once or twice she had peeped into the book her sister was reading, but it had no pictures or conversations in it, 'and what is the use of a book,' thought Alice 'without pictures or conversation?

get very tired of sitting by her sister on the bank

It had been a thudding bore of a day; rain had kept Evie inside at the museum, where she amused herself by rearranging the books on one shelf according to a taxonomy only she understood.

Depression is boring, I think, and I would do better to make some soup and light up the cave. —ANNE SEXTON, "THE FURY OF RAIN STORMS

People had been working for so many years to make the world a safe organized place. Nobody realized how boring it would become.

Birds, except when broiled and in the society of a cold bottle, bored him stiff.

One wonders what would happen in a society in which there were no rules to break. Doubtless everyone would quickly die of boredom.

No society ever seems to have succumbed to boredom. Man has developed an obvious capacity for surviving the pompous reiteration of the commonplace.

One wonders what would happen in a society where there were no rules to break. Doubtlessly everyone would quickly die of boredom.

In order to live free and happily you must sacrifice boredom. It is not always an easy sacrifice.

I still love what I do and I've done OK over the years ... You're a long time retired and anyway, I'd get bored.

I can sympathize with people's pains, but not with their pleasure. There is something curiously boring about somebody else's happiness.

I am interested in everything,' interrupted Gumbril Junior. 'Which comes to the same thing,' said his father parenthetically, 'as being interested in nothing.

Oh, how desperately bored, in spite of their grim determination to have a Good Time, the majority of pleasure-seekers really are!

Your true traveler finds boredom rather agreeable than painful. It is the symbol of his liberty - his excessive freedom. He accepts his boredom, when it comes, not merely philosophically, but almost with pleasure.

Humans] suffer, during their working hours, from the chronic boredom and frustration imposed by the sort of jobs that have to be done in order to satisfy the artificially stimulated demand for the fruits of fully mechanized mass-production.

In the same way, the reader of a book who happens to be out of tune with the author's prevailing mood will be bored to death by the things that were written with the greatest enthusiasm. Or else, like the far-away correspondent, he may seize on something which for you was not essential, to make it of the core and kernel of the book.

The few love affairs which had come my way had been rather silly and sordid. They had not revealed the possibilities of love; in fact I had thought it a somewhat overrated pleasure, a brief and brutal blindness with boredom and disgust hard on its heels.

I do not think we were afraid of death; life had become such an infinitely boring alternation between a period of stimulation which failed to stimulate and of depression which hardly even depressed.

Encuentro que la vida es aburrida y estúpida por falta de imaginación. Demasiada razón, demasiada disciplina en todo.

Do you realise that people die of boredom in London suburbs? It's the second biggest cause of death amongs the English in general. Sheer boredom...