Quotes About Boredom

I think the reason kids get into drugs and smoking is they don't have anything to do.

They're a redefinition of boredom... the most important thing you need to know about an awards show is where is the nearest smoking opportunity.

It's all right; it's not so much fun any more.

the study of psychophysics proves that it is impossible to bore a German." Thankfully

Plus, a woman can only watch so much television and read so many books." She made

We've known for a long time that it was no longer possible to overturn this world, nor reshape it, nor head off its dangerous headlong rush. There's been one possible resistance: to not take it seriously. But I think our jokes have lost their power...All you get out of it is weariness and boredom.

I never forgot that, because, though I was only a child, something seemed to become clear to me: this is existence as such confronting time as such; and that confrontation, I understood, is named boredom.

Because people who decline organized leisure activities are deserters from the great common struggle against boredom, and they deserve neither attention nor helmets.

Los periódicos tienen para mí una gran ventaja y es que no hacen ruido. Su aburrimiento es silencioso; no se entrometen; es posible dejarlos a un lado, meterlos en el cubo de la basura.

L'existence en tant que telle confrontée au temps en tant que tel... Cette confrontation s'appelle l'ennui

And what better consolation for a dying person than to say to himself: this land bores us? I can imagine those words in neon over the cemetery gates.

Los celos llenan la mente aún más que una actividad apasionante. En la mente no queda ni un segundo de tiempo libre. Quien tiene celos no sabe qué es el aburrimiento.

For time spurred on by jealousy passes with amazing speed. Jealousy occupies the mind more completely than passionate intellectual work. The mind has not a moment of leisure. A victim of jealousy never knows boredom

Ia sampai di talud laut; di bawah, di pantai, dilihatnya para lelaki dengan kepala mendongak sedang menaikkan layang-layang. Itu mereka lakukan dengan sepenuh perasaan, dan Jean-Marc teringat teori lamanya: ada tiga macam kebosanan: kebosanan pasif: gadis yang berdansa dan menguap itu; kebosanan aktif: para pecinta layangan itu; dan kebosanan yang memberontak: anak muda yang membakari mobil dan meremuk etalase toko.

The boredom of married life inevitable destroys love, when love has preceded marriage.

I don't like going out. I hate clubs. I hate being around too many people. I love my home and staying in bed and watching Dancing With the Stars or reading a Danielle Steel novel. I'm kind of boring.

There is nothing more boring than people who love you.

Whatever you do, Seth said around a chewy mouthful, try not to leave me down here too long. You can only play a certain amount of Yahtzee games in a row before you become a lunatic. I'll keep that in mind.

Things changing, failing apart, fading, another year, a few more moves, a hard person who doesn't give a fuck, a boredom so monumental it humbles, arrangements so fleeting made by people you don't even know that it requires you to lose any sense of reality you might have once acquired, expectations so unreasonable you become superstitious about ever matching them.

Man, it really gets me down. When everything's exhausted there's nothing left. The rate I was running, it wouldn't be long. Then what? What's next? What's the score? I can't handle the rest of my life suspended in boredom. Such a chore! Gonna burn out because I can't stand to fade away. Get it all in fast and get out. No turning back now. It's just the way it is, the way I need to be.

YOU DULL ME!

The chief product of an automated society is a widespread and deepening sense of boredom.

then why sell? James had asked. have to, Redmond said. if I want to get married and have children and live in this city, I have to. since when do you want to get married and have kids? James asked. since now. Life gets boring when you're middle-aged. You can't keep doing the same thing. You look like an asshole. You ever notice that? Redmond had asked.

They're bored with their boring husbands who are workaholics like my dad. They're bored with their boring lives, sick of us kids and all this puberty and rebelling, so they pop pills all day long and shop and watch the soaps, and then when it all starts to fall apart they realize they just want to be happy again, so they go to rehab to clean up their act and then start fresh. Can you relate?