Quotes About Boredom

You better write me letters. I said yeah, I will, but they'll be boring. Nothing happens in my life. Nothing has to happen, she said, for it to be life. Well, I said, I'll try".

You know how it is- you get used to something, people rely on you, one day you wake up and you can't tell Tuesday from Thursday. You're doing the same boring stuff.

You know how it is--you get used to something, people rely on you, one day you wake up and you can't tell Tuesday from Thursday. You're doing the same boring stuff, you're a 'ride man

Didn't you tell me smoking ruined your stamina as a boxer? ... Ruined is a strong word, I'd say. ... It helps fight boredom. It gives you more to do and less time to do it in.

the whole purpose of civilization is to take the surprises out of life, so one can be bored to death

A vida é por vezes triste e muitas vezes aborrecida mas de vez em quando há groselhas no bolo.

In small towns, news travels at the speed of boredom.

where tourists and people from the city came in search of sand, sun and expensive forms of boredome.

La mayoría de los autores que se habían sentido llamados a escribir sobre lo divino, lo humano y lo sacro, debían de haber sido estudiosos doctos y píos en grado sumo, pero como escritores eran una birria. El sufrido lector que debía patinar sobre sus páginas se las veía y se las deseaba para no caer en un estado de coma inducido por el aburrimiento a cada punto y aparte.

Sometimes it's best to put your mind to work and exhaust it, rather than let it rest, in case it gets bored and starts eating you up alive.

For me, food cures everything. Depression. Boredom. Anger. Chocolate cake can take care of ingrown toenails, and potato chips can eradicate acne.

Have you thought about going insane? It would seem like a reasonable thing to do, given his circumstances. Did once. Got boring, so I snapped out of it.

An army post in peacetime is a dull place. Things happen, but then they happen over and over again.

There is mercy for everyone, except those who are bored with life.

He managed to convey indifference, contempt, and boredom in the one word.

Grief was boring. This was a shallow thought about a deep subject, but it was a valid observation.

Oh, to me not drinking is like being dead, almost. I sit here taking endless journeys down memory lane. It gets boring.

I was a mindless eater. I ate for comfort. I also ate out of boredom and habit.

I was an accountant in Chicago, and a friend of mine, Ed Gallagher, was in advertising. At 4:30 every day I'd be bored, and I would call him. He'd interview me.

The fashion business got boring. I was working with big companies, but the minute it became too formulaic, I got bored with it. I wanted to do a creative space where I could just make stuff - kind of like an atelier, where I could collaborate with other artists, drape geometric shapes on the body, make cushion covers, or whatever.

Die meisten Menschen interessieren einen wirklich nicht, habe ich die ganze Zeit gedacht, fast alle, denen wir begegnen, interessieren uns nicht, sie haben uns nichts zu bieten als ihre Massenarmseligkeit und ihre Massendummheit und langweilen uns dadurch immer und überall und wir haben naturgemäß für sie nicht das geringste übrig.

One actually finds most people uninteresting, I thought, all the time—almost all the people we meet are uninteresting, having nothing to offer us but their collective mediocrity and their collective imbecility, with which they bore us on every occasion, and so naturally we have no time for them.

Aber irgendwie, irgrendwo ist das Abenteuer weg. Jetzt sucht man Ausflüchte und schreibt halt Stücke oder konstruiert eine Prosa, die die Leute langweilt, weil sie sagen Das ist mir zu blöd, drei Seiten ein Satz.

But the boredom of Frau Spatz had by now reached that pitch where it distorts the countenance of man, makes the eyes protrude from the head, and lends the features a corpselike and terrifying aspect. More than that, this music acted on the nerves that controlled her digestion, producing in her dyspeptic organism such malaise that she was really afraid she would have an attack.