Boredom Quotes · Page 26

Boredom is a choice. Like tardiness. Or interrupting.

— Mike Rowe

People that have nothing to do are quickly tired of their own company.

— Jeremy Collier

Any country where I am not bored is a country that teaches me nothing.

— Albert Camus

When boredom strikes, creativity takes over.

— Anonymous

Boredom strives to detach, but finds itself stuck.

— Mason Cooley

Boredom means you develop your own interior life.

— Hilton Als

If you're bored and you look bored, that's your fault.

— Matt Berry

What's wrong with being a boring kind of guy?

— George H. W. Bush

It's precisely in those moments when I don't know what to do, boredom drives one to try a host of possibilities to…

— Anish Kapoor

No one who appreciates the shortness of this life and the eternality of the next can ever say, 'I'm bored'

— Abu Ammaar Yasir Qadhi

Boredom and restlessness are deeply related. Whenever you feel boredom, then you feel restlessness. Restlessness is a by-product of boredom.

— Rajneesh

Being a [bank] director is like being a pilot of an aircraft - it's years of boredom and seconds of terror.

— Moira Johnston

I'm bored' is a useless thing to say. You live in a great, big, vast world that you've seen none percent of.

— Louis C. K

“Was it boredom or sadism that made the shirt service people do up every single button?”

— Ian McEwan

We're not big on irony in Jamaica, sarcasm and double-talk. We tend to say things plainly, sometimes to the point of boredom.

— Marlon James

“... crowding together to see something which would ease the boredom of perfection and time.”

— Cordwainer Smith

I never thought, 'I'm going to learn how to be funny now!,' and I'm still surprised when other people think I'm funny.…

— Lisa Hanawalt

“When Boredom comes, it is the time during which discovery is to be made. That is the time during which real effort…

— Dada Bhagwan

When I started doing music, it was out of despair and boredom. I got passionate about it, and I felt that it…

— Yasmine Hamdan

“Boredom is a symptom of a conditioned and closed mind. If you are bored, you’re doing yourself a tremendous disservice. Open your…

— Steve Maraboli

“I think that the word bored does not get the attention it deserves. We speak of all sorts of terrible things that…

— Erich Fromm

“Borkin: Ladies and gentlemen, why are you so glum? Sitting there like a jury after it's been sworn in! ... Let's think…

— Anton Chekhov

Ennui, the demon, waited at the threshold of his noiseless refuge, and drove away the stirring hopes and enlivening expectations, which form…

— Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

I grew up in Le Mars, Iowa, and even though it's a great place to grow up and be raised as a…

— Paul Rust

Back at the Chateau Windsor there was a rat-like scratching at the door of my room. Vinod, the youngest servant, came in…

— Tahir Shah

1.Last Drink You Had- 2.Last Text You Sent 3. Who Did You Send The Text To- 4.Last Phone Call- 5.Last Food You…

— Angel_eyes

“Ten days passed, ten days of total idleness. The novelty of our surroundings wore off and the battalion began to suffer from…

— Philip Caputo

“But the boredom of Frau Spatz had by now reached that pitch where it distorts the countenance of man, makes the eyes…

— Thomas Mann

I've made a career over the last seventeen years of mostly playing men in uniform, especially cops. The one thing for an…

— Benjamin Bratt

Rest forever, tired heart. The final illusion has perished. The one we believed eternal is gone. Just like that. Out the door…

— Giacomo Leopardi

I never wanted to fall in love, certainly not like this. I never loved someone like this in my whole life, and…

— Olivia Wander

“All great books contain boring portions, and all great lives have contained uninteresting stretches. Imagine a modern American publisher confronted with the…

— Bertrand Russell

Extreme boredom provides its own antidote.

— Anonymous

Boredom comes simply from ignorance and lack of imagination.

— Susan Ertz

The projectors in the theater practically shut down with boredom.

— Desson Thomson

One must choose in life between boredom and suffering.

— Madame de Stael

The first effect of adjusting to other people is that one becomes boring.

— Elias Canetti

Boredom comes not from reality but from people who are only half alive.

— Thomas Dubay

“If you are an angle, all you can give is boredom.”

— Lara Biyuts

“Tedium is a dangerous thing, potentially lethal.”

— Nina