The way to recognize a dead word is that it exudes boredom.

that is not the last word; it is not even an apt word; it is a dead word from ten years back.

— Evelyn Waugh

Here is the whole set! a character dead at every word.

— Richard Brinsley Sheridan

Conservation is now a dead word.

— Marjory Stoneman Douglas

“ A Word is Dead A word is dead When it is said, Some say. I say it just Begins to live That day.”

— Emily Dickinson

We do not see the world as it is. We see the word as we are.

— Anais Nin

That human life must be some kind of mistake is sufficiently proved by the simple observation that man is a compound of needs which…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

We shop out of boredom, for release, for excitement, for a sense of achievement, for a sense of control over our unruly existences. And…

— Tim Gunn

The most total opposite of pleasure is not pain but boredom, for we are willing to risk pain to make a boring life interesting.

— Peter Kreeft

“A car is one of the most interesting inventions, but driving is one of the most boring activities.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

I don't think anyone wants to do the same thing over and over again.

— Eric Bachmann

When people look in the mirror, sometimes they see are their shells in the mirror, nothing else.

— Anonymous

I'm bored of being bored because being bored is very boring

— Sachithra

Boredom is vastly underrated. Boredom means that nothing is trying to kill you every day.

— Robin Hobb

Life is what you make it¦If one refuses to use ones imagination..it will be boring.

— Anonymous

I am fairly tired--bored beyond endurance--by the world we live in, and its ideals, and am ready to say so, not violently, but kindly,…

— Henry Adams