Bored Quotes
1195 quotes by 914 authors
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Bliss—a-second-by-second joy and gratitude at the gift of being alive, conscious—lies on the other side of crushing, crushing boredom. Pay close attention to the most…
— David Foster Wallace
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There they lay, but not in the forgetfulness of the previous night. She was seeking and he was seeking, they raged and contorted their faces…
— Franz Kafka
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I can safely say, on the authority of all that is revealed in the Word of God, that any man or woman on this earth…
— Aiden Wilson Tozer
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Any country where I am not bored is a country that teaches me nothing.
— Albert Camus
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If you're bored, one thing is for sure: You're not following in the footsteps of Christ.
— Mark Batterson
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There is no reason why you should be bored when you can be otherwise. But if you find yourself sitting in the hedgerow with nothing…
— Emily Post
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He had been bored, that's all, bored like most people. Hence he had made himself out of whole cloth a life full of complications and…
— Albert Camus
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What’s life in this nation? Collect emptiness in a household of cornflakes. Transient fuel gobbles attention, the television aches, the truth walks. Scheme worms welcome…
— Steve Aylett
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Shopping is actually very similar to farming a field. You can't keep buying the same thing, you have to have a bit of variety. Otherwise…
— Sophie Kinsella
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Simple. I got very bored and depressed, so I went and plugged myself in to its external computer feed. I talked to the computer at…
— Douglas Adams
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She had been bored all afternoon by Percy Gryce... but she could not ignore him on the morrow, she must follow up her success, must…
— Edith Wharton
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You don’t care where I live or how I feel, or what I eat or how I feed my kids or how I pay the…
— Chuck Palahniuk
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She is a cat with a burning tail, an ant under a microscope, a fly about to lose its wings to the curious plucking fingers…
— Stephen King
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I always think boredom is to some extent the fault of the bored.
— Kate Ross
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Tried living in the real world instead of a shell, but I was bored before I even began.
— Steven Morrissey
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I conclude now I have no inner resources, because I am heavy bored. Peoples bore me, literature bores me, especially great literature,
— John Berryman
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Hello toes," I say. They're good toes. I like that they're long and slender and not the slightest bit stubby. I wiggle them, ten unstubby…
— Lauren Myracle
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It is hard not to see into the future, faced with today's blind architecture - a thousand times more stupid and more revolting than that…
— Andre Breton
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King Constantine IX of Regia had been killed three times and was bored with it. He wanted a bath.
— Lloyd Alexander
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I'm bored with knitting. I've taken up arson.
— Audrey Niffenegger
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