Bored Quotes

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In order to live free and happily you must sacrifice boredom. It is not always an easy sacrifice. — Richard Bach
If it's all instruction, you get annoyed with it and bored, and you stop reading. If it's all entertainment, you read it quite quickly, your… — Margaret Atwood
The ear tends to be lazy, craves the familiar and is shocked by the unexpected; the eye, on the other hand, tends to be impatient,… — Wystan Hugh Auden
Boredom is the dream bird that hatches the egg of experience. A rustling in the leaves drives him away. — Walter Benjamin
Never chain your dogs together with sausages. One must accustom one's self to be bored. — John Berger
Idle people are often bored and bored people, unless they sleep a lot, are cruel. It is not accident that boredom and cruelty are great… — Renata Adler
Bored people, unless they sleep a lot, are cruel. — Renata Adler
I tried for a while to be an agricultural worker and was hopelessly bored. To me it was meaningless. I would stand around in heaps… — Theodore Bikel
I just get really bored with sticking to the norm and having the proper conservative image. That's just so not me. — Christina Aguilera
I grew up in a city, I'm a city person - I go on holiday and I'm bored. — Danny Boyle
I don't want to wake up and be bored. That's probably my greatest fear is to have nothing to do. What better job is there… — Tom Brady
The wise person often shuns society for fear of being bored. — Jean de la Bruyere
You don't burn out from going too fast. You burn out from going too slow and getting bored. — Cliff Burton
If I die prematurely I shall be saved from being bored to death at my own success. — Samuel Butler
The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore. — Samuel Butler
Society is now one polished horde, formed of two mighty tries, the Bores and Bored. — Lord Byron
Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and… — Dale Carnegie
Twenty can't be expected to tolerate sixty in all things, and sixty gets bored stiff with twenty's eternal love affairs. — Emily Carr
It is commonly supposed that the art of pleasing is a wonderful aid in the pursuit of fortune; but the art of being bored is… — Nicolas Chamfort
I'm considered wise, and sometimes I see myself as knowing. Most of the time, I see myself as wanting to know. And I see myself… — Maya Angelou

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