Quotes About Boredom

Her voice was low and dry and monotonous, the voice of a vicious boredom. It affected me like a rattlesnake's buzzing signal.

It was the myth of the self that led to boredom and selfishness; all human pain came from their mad belief that an individual is anything other than an integral part of the One universe all around.

I began to think that my life, although profoundly boring on the surface, was quite interesting in literary terms.

teacher droned on and on, lecturing

But maybe boredom is erotic, when women do it, for men.

How I would like to have them back, those pointless afternoons - the boredom, the aimlessness, the unformed possibilities.

Setting fire to the roofs, getting away with the loot, suiting herself. She studied modern philosophy, read Sartre on the side, smoked Gitanes, and cultivated a look of bored contempt. But inwardly, she was seething with unfocused excitement, and looking for someone to worship.

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This is one of the things I wasn't prepared for—the amount of unfilled time, the long parentheses of nothing.

Oh, why was he so handsomely blond, so courteously aloof, so maddeningly boring with his talk about Europe and books and music and poetry and things that interested her not at all - and yet so desirable?

I would sooner read a time-table or a catalogue than nothing at all. They are much more entertaining than half the novels that are written.

Idle people are often bored and bored people, unless they sleep a lot, are cruel. It is not accident that boredom and cruelty are great preoccupations in our time.

Learning lines is hard for me because I have the attention span of a six year old. That's why being on planes all the time is so useful - I'm forced to learn out of boredom.

It seems that boredom is one of the greatest discoveries of our time. If so, there's no question but that he must be considered a pioneer.

You cannot give me an instance of any man who is permitted to lay out his own time contriving not to have tedious hours.

My hometown was so dull that one time the tide went out and never came back.

Mostly I just kill time," he said, "and it dies hard.

I never get bored. There isn't enough time in the day for me.

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

Downtime is where we become ourselves, looking into the middle distance, kicking at the curb, lying on the grass or sitting on the stoop and staring at the tedious blue of the summer sky. I don't believe you can write poetry, or compose music, or become an actor without downtime, and plenty of it, a hiatus that passes for boredom but is really the quiet moving of the wheels inside that fuel creativity.

this tedious existence is starting to make us all disagreeable.

This morning I was wondering whether you ever felt like a cow, having to chew my stale news over and over again until you're so fed up with the monotonous fare that you yawn and secretly wish Anne would dig up something new.

I landed a job as a clerk-typist at a huge engineering and construction firm in the city, in the nuclear quality-assurance department, where I labored under a tsunami wave of triplicate forms and memos. It was very upsetting. It was also so boring that it made my eyes feel ringed with dark circles, like Lurch. I finally figured out that most of this paperwork could be tossed without there being any real … well … fallout, and this freed me up to write short stories instead.

The only people we can serve are curious, dissatisfied, or bored.