Quotes About Boredom

I don't read such boring things. Life is too short.

I fell asleep reading a dull book and dreamed I kept on reading, so I awoke from sheer boredom.

I found reading musical notation frightfully boring.

If it's all instruction, you get annoyed with it and bored, and you stop reading. If it's all entertainment, you read it quite quickly, your heart going pitty-pat, pitty-pat. But when you finish, that's it. You're not going to think about it much afterward, apart from the odd nightmare. You're not going to read that book again.

After I dropped out of college at the age of 19, I became a mortgage broker, and when I went back to school I thought about going into real estate law. I probably would have made a lot more money and died of boredom by now.

I've realised that when I don't play people who are complex I get very, very bored, and then lazy, and end up being rubbish.

Maybe directors who are more interested in realism and naturalism come from cities, where they see things on their doorstep every day. But growing up as a kid in a very pretty but ever-so-slightly boring town, where not a great deal happened, encouraged me to be more escapist, more imaginative, and more of a daydreamer.

Good-bye. I am leaving because I am bored.

I don't want to bore people or myself - to be busy is something to be grateful for, but to be busy doing diverse work is absolutely... I wouldn't change it for the world. I feel very lucky for that.

I'm so boring. My idea of a great day is just to be home with absolutely nothing to do.

Just because I might be bored doesn't mean I have to look boring. I'd rather look fabulous, like I'm having a great time.

To wear brown and grey things every day, the same clothes, for months, it's quite boring after a while.

I guess I'm a Gemini through and through, but I'm mercurial. I get bored doing the same things.

Guys can get bored easily.

I suppose you could call me...Soot, said the thing. Yes...Soot. I have breathed it, lived in it, and eaten it for so long that it is a fitting name. Eaten it? asked Suzy. Why eat soot? Boredom, said Soot.

Independence without responsibility is the road to low self-esteem, meaningless activity, and eventually boredom and depression. We do not gain a sense of self-worth from being independent. Our worth comes from being responsible.

You can't just skip the boring parts. Of course I can skip the boring parts. How do you know they're boring if you don't read them? I can tell. Then you can't say you've read the whole play. I think I can live a happy life, Meryl Lee, even if I don't read the boring parts of The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark. Who knows? she said. Maybe you can't.

But CREB's effects don't limit themselves to a user's 'drug' of choice. Other things that used to make a porn viewer feel good, such as socializing, watching a movie or playing a favourite game, pale because of the dulling effects of CREB. Desensitisation leaves us bored, less satisfied, and often searching for anything to increase dopamine. It can lead a porn fan straight back to porn.

None will ever be a true Parisian who has not learned to wear a mask of gaiety over his sorrows and one of sadness, boredom or indifference over his inward joy.

No one will ever be a Parisian without learning to put a mask of joy over his sorrows and a mask of sadness, boredom, or indifference over his inner joy. . . Parisians are always at a masked ball . . .

Is it any duller than on EARTH? Whose inhabitants spend most of their lives trying to get laid, watching sitcoms on television, and grunting for money?

I've always liked things I can just trance out to. Because whatat means is that you've escaped the chafe of time. Often when you're bored, it's that friction between you and time.

Estamos aquí para morirnos de aburrimiento y luego preguntarnos cómo es posible aburrirse tanto.

Time drags only when one is thinking fast.