Quotes About Boredom

You're lucky if I watch 10 minutes of wrestling a month. Most of the time, I channel surf, and I lose interest after a few minutes.

Nobody wants to know what I'm doing 24 hours a day, they'd be painfully bored, trust me. At the same time, if I'm doing something interesting or funny, I like being able to share that with my fans.

When you consider how epidemic boredom is in our time, you have to concede that entertaining is a healing art.

The hours here are flat and round, disks of gray layered one on top of the other...they move slowly, at a grind, until it seems as though they are not moving at all. They are just pressing down...

Time limps when you are not having fun.

I'm not a big pet fan. I remember the school used to have a hamster, and you used to take it home for a week at a time. I did that. I probably got bored of it within a day.

The sense of anger I had when I was younger is something I thought would never go away. Over time, it's something you get almost bored with.

People are always so boring when they band together. You have to be alone to develop all the idiosyncrasies that make a person interesting.

Never chain your dogs together with sausages. One must accustom one's self to be bored.

What a dull and unadventurous life this is sometimes.

But it was not just his kisses that she missed. There was something else about the man that exhilarated her, something that appealed to a kindred spirit in her. Mr. Seyton was a man with a goal in life, and he was willing to work toward that goal even at the expense of his own safety. There was a spirit of adventure in him. Kate found herself envying him greatly. If only there could be more adventure in her life! She would burst soon at the boredom of her present existence.

It would be foolish to pretend boredom, she said with some scorn. Surely soon one would be bored in good earnest.

Besides, life had become confoundedly dull of late. The Season had lost its charms after so many years of sameness.

His usual air of boredom and cynicism discouraged anyone from trying too hard to engage his attention.

It was the night before my parents and Gardiner were to arrive. "I'm bored. Let's go for a drive." Ruth jumped up and ran down the stairs with Millie and me trailing along behind. We followed her out to the barn, which had once held racehorses but now housed Papa's "island cars"—a disreputable-looking collection of automobiles that had outlived their useful lives back at home in Boston but were

boredom and urban cynicism had become so natural to them that an experience from which these qualities were absent seemed to be, in some way, defective.

Funny thing happened on the way to the moon: not much," wrote Apollo 17 astronaut Gene Cernan. "Should have brought some crossword puzzles.

but, oh! the weight of never-ending time—the tedious passage of the still-succeeding hours!

The boredom and annoyance that shut down over it were humiliatingly plain to see. I could have slapped her for it.

The punishment she had wanted to inflict on him was the torture of shame; what she had inflicted was the torture of boredom.

right; maybe once you stripped away the rationalizations, it always came down to a simple matter of escape. An escape from poverty or boredom or crime or the shackles of your skin.

The loudest sound on earth, she thought, is a man with nothing to do.

When the rain pours down especially, we have long hours of captivity, in which my sisters determinedly grow bored. But are there books, books there are! Rattling words on the page calling my eyes to dance with them. Everyone else will finish with the singular plowing through, and Ada still has discoveries ahead and behind.

The loudest sound on the earth, she thought, is a man with nothing to do.