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Quotes About Boredom

You discover boredom and mean complications and the beginnings of hunger, but you also discover the great redeeming feature of poverty: the fact that it annihilates the future.
~ George Orwell
You discover boredom and mean complications and the beginnings of hunger, but you also discover the great redeeming feature of poverty: the fact that it annihilates the future. Within
~ George Orwell
Crusoe's religious preoccupations seemed boring and rather silly.
~ George R. Stewart
Each night passed with a devastating sameness.
~ George Saunders
If literature stays away from evil, it rapidly becomes boring.
~ Georges Bataille
The opium of the people in the present world is perhaps not so much religion as it is accepted boredom. Such a world is at the mercy, it must be known, of those who provide at least the semblance of an escape from boredom. Human life aspires to the passions, and again encounters its exigencies.
~ Georges Bataille
Leur vie était comme une trop longue habitude, comme un ennui presque serein : une vie sans rien.
~ Georges Perec
For himself, Sir Waldo was resigned to an evening's boredom, denied even the amusement of pursuing his acquaintance with the lady who disapproved of him.
~ Georgette Heyer
must have been shockingly bored!' 'Nothing of the sort! The man who could be bored in the midst of such a lively family as yours must be an insufferable fellow, above being pleased by anything. By the by, if that uncle of yours does
~ Georgette Heyer
I have so much inertia and so little initiative that very possibly if you had not kept me from taking my degree I would have, well, not taken to the practice of medicine, but at any rate to pathological psychology and you don't know how little I like pathological psychology, and how all medicine bores me.
~ Gertrude Stein
there is no denying luck. That you were born where you were. That you can choose. That you have the privilege of being bored. And do not have to leave your family. Or save your family." "What if I can't make up for that?" "Who says you have to? Sometimes living is all you have to do. Besides, you'd be surprised how you can save someone.
~ Gian Sardar
I tried for a while to be an agricultural worker and was hopelessly bored. I would stand around in heaps of manure and sing about the beauty of the work I wasn't doing.
~ Theodore Bikel
Adults get more confused by social worker jargon. Unlike children, they are also less likely to see two sides of an argument, and they no longer think they can make the world a better place. That can make them rather boring, I suppose.
~ Nina Bawden
I didn't care about a Dean Malenko; I'm sorry, Dean, I actually like you, you're a nice guy personally, amazing worker in the ring, but it's just boring if you can't tell me a story?
~ Eli Drake
Most people who join health clubs discontinue following their workout schedules after the initial week or month. That is because, after a while, the excitement fades out and monotony creeps in.
~ Sherlyn Chopra
Kids and adults alike are having their curiosity drained away by boredom in class or the workplace, and by the unremitting background noise of a dumbed-down pop culture.
~ Sal Khan
Variety works for me and the reason I've been able to maintain a certain level of fitness is because when I get bored I just admit I'm bored, then I switch it up.
~ A. J. Odudu
Till I get bored, I can eat. Suddenly one day, I will decide, 'Okay, today I will eat.' Then, I dance.
~ Prabhu Deva
If you have the same guys at the top of the card all the time, people get bored of it. They don't want to see the same guys wrestling over and over again.
~ Wade Barrett
I've been to Disneyland, like, 10 times. I'm getting really tired of Disneyland.
~ Elon Musk
I just am so tired of really badly written women. It's so boring.
~ Chris O'Dowd
People who have nothing to do are quickly tired of their own company.
~ Jeremy Collier
Idleness is an inlet to disorder, and makes way for licentiousness. People who have nothing to do are quickly tired of their own company.
~ Jeremy Collier
We don't hate the media, it's just that when there's too much of it we get bored, but it happens to every human being. I don't think we even hated the media by the time that movie was made. We were just tired.
~ Ed O'Brien