Quotes About Boredom

Life gets boring, someone invents another necessity, and once again we turn the crank on the screwjack of progress hoping that nobody gets screwed.

Living, just by itself - what a dirge that is! Life is a classroom and Boredom's the usher, there all the time to spy on you.

The life of pleasure breeds boredom. The life of duty breeds resentment.

Then I walked down the street toward Angel's Flight, wondering what I would do that day. But there was nothing to do, and so I decided to walk around the town.

War is sometimes described as long periods of boredom punctuated by short moments of excitement. History is often similar, if rather safer.

Economics is a subject profoundly conducive to cliche, resonant with boredom. On few topics is an American audience so practiced in turning off its ears and minds. And none can say that the response is ill advised.

Meetings are indispensable when you don't want to do anything.

Napredek in ?udovito obdobje besne?ega razvoja sta po njegovem ustvarila generacijo duševnih pohabljencev, ki bi bila potrebna nege v zdraviliš?ih. Prinesla sta s seboj množi?no živ?nost, množi?no histerijo, množi?ni dolg?as in množi?no smrt.

We have all done this before; we're bored and terrified.

The game of professional investment is intolerably boring and overexacting to anyone who is entirely exempt from the gambling instinct; whilst he who has it must pay to this propensity the appropriate toll

Never in my life had I seen such a boring movie. I chewed nine consecutive sticks of gum, to remind myself I was still alive.

She was ten months ahead of the curriculum and still bored.

I'd rather be bored than sad. I'd rather be done than lonely.

Wir gingen in keinen Nachtclub, schrieb sie in ihr Tagebuch. Eigentlich nur gut, denn angeblich ist es dort ausgesprochen langweilig - nur etwas für Leute, die viel trinken und sich verlieben wollen.

The history of life thus consists of 'long periods of boredom interrupted occasionally by panic.

If a military life was long periods of boredom punctuated by moments of stark terror—as one of her instructors had said—then civilian life seemed to be long periods of boredom interrupted by moments of dismal reflection.

Behind the bored eyes of the waitresses handing out sundaes there loomed, she knew, great earnestness, great desires, and great disappointments; such confusion lay ahead for them, and (more wearisome) anger; oh, before they were through, they would blame and blame and blame, and then get tired, too.

pugilist who won every match was dull, she

We do not have the right in the name of social justice to bore anyone to death.

Senor d'Anconia said that you bore him, Mr. Taggart.

Earlier people used to switch on TV's after getting bored with their routine work. Now they switch on to routine work after getting bored with TV.

Something doing every minute' may be a gesture of despair--or the height of a battle against boredom.

I used to rarely go on film sets, as I felt it was very boring to see the same shot being done so many times. I felt I had nothing to do. I used to irritate the cameramen.

I reached a point where I didn't think I was that great. I'm not being humble. I was looking at things and thinking: 'You're not really good in that'. I think I was becoming boring as well as bored. It was nobody's fault except mine - probably - and it might not even be my fault.