Quotes About Boredom

When we hold back out of laziness, that is when we tie ourselves into knots of boredom.

Throughout life it is inevitable that we will experience both pain and pleasure. Learning how to handle them leads to harmony and happiness. In meditation, if we are unable to handle pain or boredom, then that pain or boredom becomes our master. Then we spend our entire life trying to avoid being bored or feeling pain. However if we can handle our mind, then we know that we can handle boredom and pain.

child with ADHD may not seem to listen when spoken to or follow directions, may be reluctant to engage in tasks that are boring or effortful, may be distracted easily, fidget, leave his or her seat when sitting is expected, have difficulty waiting his or her turn, interrupt others, and talk excessively.

Sabes lo que somos? Somos actores torpes representando una obra aburrida en el escenario decrépito de un teatro desierto.

I had learned from my reading that you can do really awful things when you are bored, things that are bound to make you miserable. In fact, you do them in order to become miserable, so you won't have to be bored anymore.

Those are the most monotonous fuckin' crickets I ever heard in my life.

Nothing happens, nobody comes, nobody goes, it's awful.

If I die prematurely I shall be saved from being bored to death at my own success.

The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore.

Possibly they would be consigned to the Hospital for Incurable Bores, and made to work at being bored for so many hours a day by the Erewhonian inhabitants of the hospital, who are extremely impatient of one another's boredom, but would soon die if they had no one whom they might bore--in fact, that they would be kept as professional borees.

He is not only dull himself, but the cause of dullness in others.

Work won't do me any good ... I've tried it, and it bored me worse than the other thing.

Boredom is simply romanticism with a morning-after thirst.

Boredom and booze--cause and effect.

You can be bored with anything if you try hard enough.

The miracle of order has run out and I am left in an unmiraculous city where anything may happen. I don't need more intimations of disorder. It has to be more than that! Search the smoke for the fire's base. Read from the coals neither success nor despair. This edge of boredom is as bright. I pass it, into the dark rim. There is the deceiving warmth that asks nothing. There are objects lost in double-light.

Tell me this. Are you all that happy? Be honest now." ..."I think... there's something wrong with your question, you know? I spend a lot of time happy; I spend a lot of time unhappy; I spend a lot of time just bored. Maybe if I worked real hard at it, I could avoid some of the happiness, but I doubt it. The other two I know I'm stuck with...

Babes, I am so bored here that I don't think, since I've come, I've ever been more than three minutes away from some really astonishing act of violence.

I had failed to follow the fundamental school rule that you ought to turn up every day. The truth is I found it boring and I don't do well with that. I have learned to deal with hurt, embarrassment, pain of many sorts, but boredom in this world seems unforgivable.

Remember that it is good for children to be bored sometimes. Children who are not continually provided with stimuli develop more active imaginations, a stronger sense of self-sufficiency and, probably, higher self-esteem.

He finds himself bored by the shenanigans of highly spirited young men. Their concerns reside somewhere between balder and dash.

I have a hard time with free time.

It's hard 'coz you have got different time zones; you can't sleep and y'know, it's boring way for the show to happen, but you do off the stage. Y'know, onstage it's all better.

Every time I think I've touched bottom as far as boredom is concerned, new vistas of ennui open up.