Quotes About Boredom

Miles's eyes glinted. Besides, it'll put a little excitement in your life, Sergeant. It has to be dull as dirt, following me around all day. I'd be bored to tears. I like being bored, said Bothari morosely.

However, all that doesn't necessarily mean they are using that knowledge to do anything other than bore their friends to death.

I tell them dance begins when a moment of hurt combines with a moment of boredom. I tell them it's the body's reaching, bringing air to itself. I tell them that it's the heart's triumph, the victory speech of the feet, the refinement of animal lunge and flight, the purest metaphor of tribe and self. It's life flipping death the bird. I make this stuff up.

But I was not especially skilled at minding children for long spells; I grew bored, perhaps like my own mother. After I spent too much time playing their games, my mind grew peckish and longed to lose itself in some book I had in my backpack. I was ever hopeful of early bedtimes and long naps.

She recognized the panic at even a moment's boredom that all these piles contained, as well as the unreasonable hopefulness regarding time.

It is my opinion that this day will never come to an end, said Prince, with a yawn that nearly rent him assunder.

Hamilton venerated the law, while Burr often seemed mildly bored and cynical about it. "The law is whatever is successfully argued and plausibly maintained," he stated.

Summer school's a drag.

At any rate, it was boring to be in ill-health, doubly boring to talk about it.

It seemed that shopping could provide consolation if one was unhappy; a buzz of excitement if one was bored; self-indulgence if one had been rejected. Extravagant and frivolous maybe, but better surely than self-pity, turning for comfort to casual lovers, or taking to the bottle.

Agente: Pero cuando se descubrió que el aburrimiento o el sueño eran sólo transitorios y que debían tener otras consecuencias... entonces... entonces fue necesario inventar algo para conjugar el peligro. Peinadora: ¿Cuál peligro? Agente: Que las mujeres, sin darse cuenta, se pusieran a pensar. El mismo refrán lo dice: piensa mal y acertarás. El pensamiento es, en sí mismo, un mal. Hay que evitarlo.

I would rather be confused for 10 minutes than bored for 5 seconds.

The typical Japanese swing of mood is from intense dedication to intense boredom

Cleaning bored her. She was happiest when sitting about and reading. She had read thousands of books, seeing no point in doing anything else unless you had to.

I begin with the principle that all men are bores. Surely no one will prove himself so great a bore as to contradict me in this.

Boredom is the root of all evil. It is very curious that boredom, which itself has such a calm and sedate nature, can have such a capacity to initiate motion. The effect that boredom brings about is absolutely magical, but this effect is one not of attraction but of repulsion.

Those who bore others are the plebians, the mass, the endless train of humanity in general. Those who bore themselves are the elect, the nobility; and how strange it is that those who don't bore themselves usually bore others, while those who do bore themselves amuse others. The people who do not bore themselves are generally those who are busy in the world in one way or another, but that is just why they are the most boring, the most insufferable, of all.

Boredom is the only continuity the ironist has.

The most costly disease is boredom costly for both individual and society.

Levity is the lubricant of a crisis. We resort to jokes, pranks and good natured kidding to relieve tension, stress and boredom.

Stress is not the spice of life any more than arsenic is. And without it, you won't feel bored.

If I die prematurely at any rate I shall be saved from being bored to death by my own success.

By his very success in inventing labor-saving devices, modern man has manufactured an abyss of boredom that only the privileged classes in earlier civilizations have ever fathomed.

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