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Quotes About Boredom

After so much reality TV and confessional celebrity interviews, the public is tired of accessible stars. Who needs them to be 'Just Like Us?' 'Just Like Us' means just as boring as we are.
~ Tina Brown
It's easy to get tired of religious fundamentalists. They're such a bore. They have no sense of mystery. It's a drag, man.
~ Kurt Elling
Whenever you listen to a CD or an album, it gets tiresome hearing the same thing over and over and over again.
~ John 5
It gets tiring, doing the same thing everyday.
~ Ajay Devgan
I find rowing very boring, I've got to be honest.
~ Tony Pulis
To be honest, I'm not a big golf nerd. Golf is kind of boring, not much action.
~ Brooks Koepka
To be honest with you, there's nothing that bores me more than sitting around with a bunch of actors talking shop. I love actors and I've got friends that are actors. They're interesting people. But for some reason, usually when it comes round to talking shop, there's a part of me that doesn't like it.
~ Matt Dillon
I love not knowing what's going to happen next. With work, you never know. You rehearse and strive and get it right sometimes, and still you never know. Some people are like that with their marriages. They work and strive and labour and toil at them. God, what a bore! What an unromantic bore!
~ Celia Imrie
As a reader, I have a very short attention span and a low tolerance for boredom, and I find that comes in handy with my writing. If I get bored writing something, I pity the people who will then try to read it.
~ John Scalzi
There was nothing to do and not enough time to do nothing in.
~ Sarah Blake
The Devil may take the reckless, but the good will surely die of boredom. Boredom and frustration.
~ Sarah Dunant
I'm stuck in a waiting room with the TV on the same channel all day, and I'm never called in for my appointment.
~ Sarah Manguso
There ain't much to be said about walking across Kekropia aside from the boredom of it.
~ Sarah Monette
A book can't take the place of a man!» «I disagree. A book can give you most things a relationship can. It can make you laugh, it can make you cry, it can transport you to different worlds and teach you things. You can ever take it out to dinner. And if bores you, you can move on. Which is pretty much what happens in real life.»
~ Sarah Morgan
I think the thing about gay people in that era was that we were not really especially caustic or campy, we just were so far ahead of the regular culture that we got bored very easily, and moved on to the next thing just to keep ourselves interested.
~ Sarah Schulman
Her life seems to be nothing but routine, no adventure.
~ Sarah Stein
Everybody in my world knew that regular work was only another name for being robbed and dying of boredom.
~ Sarah Waters
Boredom is the conviction that you can't change ... the shriek of unused capacities.
~ Saul Bellow
Most people listening to presentations around the world right now are hoping their speakers will end soon. That's all they want.
~ Scott Berkun
we sweat through our doldrums somehow, sheer insane boredom; society can no longer focus and my poems keep drying up and blowing away.
~ Scott C. Holstad
we sweat through our doldrums somehow, sheer insane boredom. society can no longer focus – my poems keep drying up and blowing away.
~ Scott C. Holstad
The reason I started writing movies was because I kept getting parts that I just kind of stepped into. I didn't have to do a lot of work and I ended up getting sort of bored.
~ Scott Caan
We all know perfectly well that the man who lives out his life as a consumer," he writes in "The Coming Crisis in Psychiatry," "a sexual partner, an 'other-directed' executive; who avoids boredom and anxiety by consuming tons of newsprint, miles of film, years of TV time; that such a man has somehow betrayed his destiny as a human being.
~ Scott Stossel
When God blesses our hearts with boredom, discontent, anxiety, emptiness, or restlessness, he loves us well. For his goal is to wean our wayward hearts away from things that hold no ultimate satisfaction.
~ Scotty Smith