Boredom Quotes · Page 32

“You know a man is interesting when you forget to notice how expensive — or cheap — his clothes are.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“…Boredom [is] a moral failing, the mark of a mind insufficiently stocked to occupy itself.”

— Nancy Kress

Life, friends, is boring. We must not say so. After all, the sky flashes, the great sea yearns, we ourselves flash and…

— John Berryman

That awkward moment when silence fills the room, and the only thing you can hear is the sound of a clock ticking

— Anne Dawn

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

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

A typical day is full of anxiety and boredom. Flow experiences provide the flashes of intense living against this dull background.

— Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

My heart swings back and forth between the need for routine and the urge to run.

— Anonymous

Boredom and sexual desire are a potent and explosive combination, and people will certainly risk their lives to exit a grey and…

— Lawrence Osborne

I always liked routine. I suppose I never found boredom very boring. I doubted I could explain it to someone like Margo…

— John Green

Discomfort is a pain. Boredom is a pain. A perfect piece of music can reduce us to tears. Every one of these…

— Ruben Papian

I think Hollywood sees so many parts of America through a very narrow prism. The South is no exception. And those stereotypes,…

— Walton Goggins

“His eagerness had turned into a routine; he embraced her at the same time every day. It was a habit like any…

— Gustave Flaubert

“Oh,you. The usual. With you gone and Easton Heights in reruns, my life is a black hole of boredom and despair." "So…

— Kiersten White

“Boredom, a certain kind of boredom, is really impatience. You don't like the way things are, they aren't interesting enough for you,…

— Eric Weiner

Maybe you reach a certain point in evolution where boredom is the greatest threat to your survival. Maybe this isn't a planetary…

— Rick Yancey

For I have neither wit, nor words, nor worth, Action, nor utterance, nor the power of speech, To stir men’s blood: I…

— William Shakespeare

When you consider how epidemic boredom is in our time, you have to concede that entertaining is a healing art.

— Judith Martin

Boredom is... a vital problem for the moralist, since half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it.

— Bertrand Russell

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

— Anonymous

“As a subconscious attempt to add meaning or purpose to their life: The unemployed pray for a job; the retired pray for…

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“The life of an adventurer appeared to consist of roughly six parts boredom to one part stark terror, or so it seemed…

— Jim C. Hines

“HUMAN BEINGS MAKE LIFE SO INTERESTING. DO YOU KNOW, THAT IN A UNIVERSE SO FULL OF WONDERS, THEY HAVE MANAGED TO INVENT…

— Terry Pratchett

I'm bored -> Look at my phone -> No text? Check my twitter -> No mention? Check my Facebook -> No notification?…

— OhItsVynn

Many books are longer than they seem. They have indeed no end. The boredom that they cause is truly absolute and infinite.

— Novalis

My girlfriend's packed her bags and moved out to another town, she couldn't stand the boredom when the video broke down.

— Ray Davies

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

— Francis Picabia

Boredom is the conviction that you can't change ... the shriek of unused capacities.

— Saul Bellow

Although I did admire David Foster Wallace's final unfinished novel about boredom, I'm no DFW, and I want my books to be…

— Chris Pavone

“The pleasure we found in working together made us exceptionally patient; it is much easier to strive for perfection when you are…

— Daniel Kahneman

Variety is more than a means of avoiding boredom, since art is more than an entertainment of the senses.

— Rudolf Arnheim

Something must happen; that is the reason for most human relationships. Something must happen; even servitude in love, in war, ordeath.

— Albert Camus

Something opens our wings. Something makes boredom and hurt disappear. Someone fills the cup in front of us: We taste only sacredness.

— Rumi

“Jebediah was dragging Alyssa down, chaining her to the boredom and mundaneness of the human realm. She must be set free.”

— A.G. Howard

Every time I think I've touched bottom as far as boredom is concerned, new vistas of ennui open up.

— Margaret Halsey

“To drive a woman away, tell her that you are unemployed. To bore her, tell her that you are single.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

The temptation to quit and start over infects every creative process I've ever been in. Frustration and boredom always fuel this self-doubt.

— Robert Lopez

The Devil may take the reckless, but the good will surely die of boredom. Boredom and frustration.

— Sarah Dunant

Anthropocentrism gave rise to boredom, and when anthropomorphism was replaced by technocentrism, boredom became even more profound.

— Anonymous

No other species anywhere in the world had invented boredom. Perhaps it was boredom, not intelligence, that had propelled them up to…

— Terry Pratchett

True will-power and courage are not on the battlefield, but in everyday conquests over our intertia, laziness, boredom.

— Dwight L. Moody