Quotes About Boredom

I like in-person interviews, but I do a lot of interviews over the phone, and it's so boring. The same questions over and over.

I don't like giving interviews unless I have something to talk about. Why bore people and why bore media?

I get bored after I invent something because I hate talking about it every time.

If you bore them to death and say, this hurts me more than it hurts you, #A, they're not going to believe it, and #B, they're going to invest their time in other things anyway.

As I've said before, and I still hold to, I truly am the most boring person alive. And if there was a great investigation to be found at the end of the resume, it would be, the most boring person alive.

I get invited to premieres, and I've been to a few fashion shows and stuff, but I always get really bored. I feel quite awkward. You have to wear something by them, and it all feels like, 'Why am I doing free advertising for you?'

Wyoming - God bless you in Wyoming - it's very boring, and it's the most isolated place on Earth.

Jane Austen was writing about boring people with desperately limited lives. We forget this because we've seen too many of her books on screen.

The jogging machine makes me go insane with boredom.

A man would die, though he were neither valiant, nor miserable, only upon a weariness to do the same thing so oft, over and over.

All the' expensive artificialities of life at Cannes, where one saw exactly the same people as at home in slightly thinner clothes, bored her equally. Their transplanted conventions made her feel a traitor to her kind. Her only relief from that hothouse atmosphere was to be found in the flowery foothills of the Maritime Alps, where she went for long, lonely walks, always thinking of Cyril, in a pagan setting that called for his faun-like presence.

If men cannot struggle on behalf of a just cause because that just cause was victorious in an earlier generation, ... then they will struggle against the just cause. They will struggle for the sake of struggle. They will struggle, in other words, out of a certain boredom; for they cannot imagine living in a world without struggle.

Nature is unfair? So much the better, inequality is the only bearable thing, the monotony of equality can only lead us to boredom

We often forgive those who bore us, but never those whom we bore.

We often forgive those who bore us, but we cannot forgive those whom we bore.

She didn't bother to understand it all; it was history --boring boring boring.

Surprise! Adolescence is not an exciting adventure. It's actually very boring and lonelier than you could ever imagine.

I was once told that flying involves long hours of boredom, interrupted by moments of extreme fright.

Our English monarchs are so unimaginative," said Eldric. "They execute people in such tediously conventional ways.

Boredom lies in our character, not in the world. "If you're bored," I've heard it said, "you're boring." Think about this. When you're bored, you tend to bore others. Conversely, when you're bored, it is because you are boring: you are the one who engages in the act of boring. It's not the world that is boring you, it is you who are boring the world.

My hometown was so dull that one time the tide went out and never came back.

Boredom is a form of evil; perhaps one of Kierkegaard's characters was more correct when he said, "Boredom is the root of all evil." Boredom is a preview of death, if not itself a form of death, and when trapped in prolonged boredom, even the most saintly of us will hope for, pray for, or even engineer relief, however demonic.

The number one sign you have nothing to do at work: The 4th Division of Paperclips has overrun the Pushpin Infantry and General White-Out has called for a new skirmish.

Against boredom the gods themselves fight in vain.