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Quotes About Boredom

And there is a time, glorious too in its own way, when one scarcely exists, when one is a complete void. I mean, when boredom seems the very stuff of life.
~ Henry Miller
I don't know why people think child actresses in particular are screwed up. I see kids everywhere who are totally bored. I've never been bored a day in my life.
~ Jodie Foster
I get bored easily. I've been bored most of my life.
~ John Cleese
Boredom is my worst enemy. It's killed a lot of my friends, but it won't get me. When I get bored, I go risk my life somewhere.
~ Larry Niven
The actual process of filmmaking, the many hours out of your life- it is very slow and boring. I'm not interested in that now unless an opportunity was provided for me.
~ Rick Moranis
Surely a long life must be somewhat tedious, since we are forced to call in so many trifling things to help rid us of our time, which will never return.
~ Samuel Johnson
To the elitist hedonist, life is the avoidance of boredom and routine.
~ Timothy Leary
One sometimes says: 'He killed himself because he was bored with life.' One ought rather to say: 'He killed himself because he was bored by lack of life.'
~ Victor Hugo
Martin in particular concluded that man was born to live either in the convulsions of misery, or in the lethargy of boredom.
~ Voltaire, Candide
In small towns, news travels at the speed of boredom.
~ Carlos Ruiz Zafon
It was the living who ignored the strange and wonderful, because life was too full of the boring and mundane.
~ Terry Pratchett, Reaper Man
I have the impression that if he didn't complicate his life so needlessly, he would die of boredom.
~ Boris Pasternak
The two real problems in life are boredom and death.
~ Saul Bellow
Someone's boring me. I think it's me.
~ Dylan Thomas
He who seeks rest finds boredom. He who seeks work finds rest.
~ Dylan Thomas
Dylan talked copiously then stopped, 'Somebody's boring me,' he said, 'I think its me.
~ Dylan Thomas
If there's one thing I really distinguish in myself, it's my unlimited ability for getting tired of everything.
~ E M Cioran
Here is something I love about Gat: he is so enthusiastic, so relentlessly interested in the world, that he has trouble imagining the possibility that other people will be bored with what he's saying.
~ E. Lockhart
Here is something I love about Gat: he is so enthusiastic, so relentlessly interested in the world, that he has trouble imagining the possibility that other people will be bored by what he's saying.
~ E. Lockhart
To the non-combatants and those on the periphery of action, the war meant only boredom or occasional excitement, but to those who entered the meat grinder itself the war was a netherworld of horror from which escape seemed less and less likely as casualties mounted and the fighting dragged on and on. Time had no meaning, life had no meaning. The fierce struggle for survival in the abyss of Peleliu had eroded the veneer of civilization and made savages of us all.
~ E.B. Sledge
You don't like this quite country life?" inquired Mrs. Condiment. "No; no better than I do a quiet country grave-yard. I don't want to return to dust before my time, I tell you," said Cap, yawning dismally over her work.
~ E.D.E.N. Southworth
The universe transformed into a Sunday afternoon . . . it is the very definition of ennui, and the end of the universe.
~ E.M. Cioran
La noia è pensiero in germe
~ E.M. Cioran
Much love. Modified love to Tibby. Love to Aunt Juley; how good of her to come and keep you company, but what a bore.
~ E.M. Forster