Quotes About Boredom

The town was so dull: one day the tide went out, and it never came back.

In the years when teenagers really need to be connected to somebody, they aren't; especially in small towns where kids are bored and look for something to get them going.

If you're driving around or at home with the stereo blasting pure dance track, it gets boring within about 15 minutes. It doesn't work at home like it does in a nightclub. You've got no atmosphere.

I may never get back to the track. The problem was that I was dominating my event, and the winning became slightly boring. I wanted new challenges, and I've got that on the road.

I had an extremely boring time doing 20 to 30 trades a day while everyone was talking about baseball or basketball. So I stood there fantasizing about a device that could do the same thing I was doing.

There are only two emotions in a plane: boredom and terror.

What are you up to?" "I was trying to climb that tree. But I fell. Now I'm bored.

I find politicians so desperately boring. I don't trust them and don't believe in them.

All the Baptist churches she's ever visited smelled of the same sweat and boredom.

Familiarity breeds contempt and predictability breeds boredom.

If she's too predictable because you talk about the relationship all the time instead of going out and having one, he'll get bored quickly.

To reclaim solitude we have to learn to experience a moment of boredom as a reason to turn inward, to defer going "elsewhere" at least some of the time.

I said that we use digital "passbacks" to placate young children who say they are bored. We are not teaching them that boredom can be recognized as your imagination calling you. Of

I said that we use digital "passbacks" to placate young children who say they are bored. We are not teaching them that boredom can be recognized as your imagination calling you.

I've talked so much about virtuous circles; here is a vicious cycle. Knowing we have someplace "else" to go in a moment of boredom leaves us less experienced at exploring our inner lives and therefore more likely to want the stimulation of what is on our phones.

An American town worked terribly at the task of amusing itself.

To be curious about a thing you have to find something surprising in it, and I'm afraid that nothing surprises me any more.

Fiddle-dee-dee. War, war, war. This war talk's spoiling all the fun at every party this spring. I get so bored I could scream.

But I do know that about ten times as many people find their lives dull, and unnecessarily dull, as ever admit it; and I do believe that if we busted out and admitted it sometimes, instead of being nice and patient and loyal for sixty years, and then nice and patient and dead for the rest of eternity, why, maybe, possibly, we might make life more fun.

Perhaps the world s second worst crime is boredom. The first is being a bore.

With Stephen, I had become a sour, witless bore. With others, I could be light. Men I cared nothing about called me, and every once in a while, I accepted an invitation. On them my indifference worked like an aphrodisiac, Because I didn't want anything, I felt free an jabbered away spinning out all kinds of silliness that seemed only to augment their desire.

Everybody knows what a dry text is - one that has left out feeling, one that bores you stiff because if doesn't speak to anything human, hides the obvious under obfuscation, or is simply incomprehensible.

The opposite of love is indifference, and the opposite of happiness is boredom.

It was like watching a movie being played on the blank screen of his mind; the only difference was that he did not get bored, no matter how many times he watched it.