Quotes About Boredom

All the picketers look bored and hot and like they

As it was a small town and a bored town and a hopeful town, kids talked and rumors started.

Vera watched him walk to his car, the champagne in one hand, the flowers in the other. Thought that if she'd been married to someone like Joe Ashworth, she'd be so bored she'd commit murder herself.

THIS is all desperately tedious

Uma das primeiras coisas que se aprende ao praticar meditação é que nada é tedioso em si — na verdade, o tédio é simplesmente falta de atenção. Preste atenção o suficiente, e a mera experiência de respirar pode recompensar meses ou anos de vigilância constante.

History tells us that some things never change. One of these things is: history bores a lot of people.

our triumphant age of plenty is riddled with darker feelings of doubt, cynicism, distrust, boredom and a strange kind of emptiness

I used to think I preferred getting old to the alternative, but now I'm not sure. Sometimes the momotony of bingo and sing-alongs and ancient dusty people parked in teh hallway in wheelchairs makes me long for death. Particularly when I rememver that I'm one of the ancient dusty people, filed away like some worthless tchotchke.

I was bored. Sad. Lonely. It was only a matter of time before I cracked.

My dreams were dull as my everyday life.

Avoid leaving your puppy alone outdoors for long periods. Unsupervised confinement often breeds boredom and territorial behavior. Put those two together and you're likely to end up with a barkaholic.

Boredom is an instrument of social control. Power is the power to impose boredom, to command stasis, to combine this stasis with anguish. The real tedium, deep tedium, is seasoned with terror and with death.

Apes in their own habitat are less sexually driven than those in captivity. It must be that captivity, boredom, breeds lustfulness.

The human being, more and more oppressed by the peculiar terms of his existence - one time around for each, no more than a single life per customer - has to think of the boredom of death. O those eternities of nonexistence! For people who crave continual interest and diversity, O! how boring death will be! To live in the grave, in one place, how frightful!

He was here to give aid, to clarify and move, and to make certain if he could that the greatness of humankind would not entirely evaporate in bourgeois well-being, et cetera. There was nothing of the average in Ravelstein's life. He did not accept dullness and boredom. Nor was depression tolerated.

I know how long—endless—people's stories are when they have grievances. And how tedious for everyone.

La vie oscille, comme un pendule, de la souffrance à l'ennui

Cuando empleamos nuestras horas agradablemente, transcurren más de prisa; pero cuando éstas son tristes se deslizan con mayor lentitud [...]; por otro lado, casi no tenemos noción del pasado cuando éste es aburrido y en cambio lo tenemos presente cuando es entretenido.

maybe when you look at your face 50 times its really not that interesting anymore

Is boredom anything less than the sense of one's faculties slowly dying?

To become bored with eating is to be bored with life.

Life, friends, is boring. We must not say so. After all, the sky flashes, the great sea yearns, we ourselves flash and yearn, and moreover my mother told me as a boy (repeatedly) 'Ever to confess you're bored means you have no inner Resources.' I conclude now I have no inner resources, because I am heavy bored.

Life and Death are just things you do when you're bored. - Fear (is a Man's Best Friend)

They weren't evil, or vicious, or cruel. They were just bored people with too much time on their hands, and such people will, in the end, get up to mischief.