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Quotes About Boredom

When I'm not playing football Sundays, I get pretty bored. When I don't have that, it's kind of tough to get by.
~ Joe Flacco
I find day after day of sunshine boring.
~ Sarah Carter
People say you can get bored of the sunshine in L.A. No, you can't.
~ Vinnie Jones
I get super bored playing bland, normal girls.
~ Drea De Matteo
Every hero becomes a bore at last.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Boredom is the opposite of learning. When a game stops teaching us, we feel bored.
~ Raph Koster
Sentimentul continuit??ii vieÈ›ii se bazeaz? pe neînsemnate impresii corporale. Banalit??ile vieÈ›ii cotidiene constituie o armur? pentru suflet.
~ Joseph Conrad
The greatest of my gifts being a consummate capacity for doing nothing, I cannot even point to boredom as a rational stimulus for taking up a pen. The pen, at any rate, was there, and there is nothing wonderful in that.
~ Joseph Conrad
He could not make them understand that...having a good time bored him and was not worth the effort.
~ Joseph Heller
He was working hard at increasing his life span. He did it by cultivating boredom.
~ Joseph Heller
They were four clean-cut kids who were having lots of fun, and they were driving Yossarian nuts. He could not make them understand that he was a crotchety old fogey of twenty-eight, that he belonged to another generation, another era, another world, that having a good time bored him and was not worth the effort, and that they bored him, too. He could not make them shut up; they were worse than women. They had not brains enough to be introverted and repressed.
~ Joseph Heller
He could not make them understand that he was a crotchety old fogey of twenty-eight, that he belonged to another generation, another era, another world, that having a good time bored him and was not worth the effort, and that they bored him, too. He could not make them shut up; they were worse than women. They had not brains enough to be introverted and repressed.
~ Joseph Heller
This makes my boredom worse. It's a real problem to decide whether it's more boring to do something boring than to pass along everything boring that comes in to somebody else and then have nothing to do at all.
~ Joseph Heller
Dunbar was lying motionless on his back again with his eyes staring up at the ceiling like a doll's. He was working hard at increasing his life span. He did it by cultivating boredom. Dunbar was working so hard at increasing his life span that Yossarian thought he was dead.
~ Joseph Heller
Vampire Willow: Bored now.
~ Joss Whedon
Boredom is just "What's the use?" in disguise. And "What's the use?" is fear, and fear means you are secretly in despair. So put your fears on the page. Put anything on the page. Put three pages of it on the page.
~ Julia Cameron
No life goes past so swiftly as an eventless one, no clock spins like a clock whose days are all alike.
~ Wallace Stegner
Boredom is the dream bird that hatches the egg of experience. A rustling in the leaves drives him away.
~ WALTER BENJAMIN
A man needs something, some sense of accomplishment to maintain his sense of human dignity, of his value and worth as a person; even under the most stringent, most repetitious and boring routine, a man seeks something to maintain his sense of dignity and of worth.
~ Walter J. Ciszek
There's a reason for every journey, and mine was prompted by boredom and the recklessness of youth, by a wish to break the bounds of my normal existence and familiarise myself with life and the world at large.
~ Walter Moers
Wayne I once thought I had mono for an entire year, It turned out I was just really bored.
~ Wayne's World
You've grown tiresome. See ya.
~ Weldon Burge
In his Studies in Pessimism, he wrote: "If the world were a paradise of luxury and ease, a land flowing with milk and honey, where every Jack obtained his Jill at once and without any difficulty, men would either die of boredom or hang themselves.
~ Daniel Klein
With nothing meaningful in life, nothing is interesting. Enter boredom. A bored man even longs for longing. He has time to fill, but there is nothing compelling to do.
~ Daniel Klein