Bored Quotes
1195 quotes by 914 authors
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Birds, except when broiled and in the society of a cold bottle, bored him stiff.
— P.G. Wodehouse
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An apocryphal story - the word "apocryphal" here means "obviously untrue" - tells of two people, long ago, who were very bored, and that instead…
— Daniel Handler
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Why do you have a cigarette lighter in your glove compartment?" her husband, Jack, asked her. "I'm bored with knitting. I've taken up arson
— Audrey Niffenegger
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[Devina] “You know, Adrian, you ever get bored with being a Goody Two-shoes, you could come over to my side.†“Because you have cookies, right. 
— J R Ward
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When I get real bored, I like to drive downtown and get a great parking spot, then sit in my car and count how many…
— Steven Wright
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I do not wish you much happiness--it would bore you; I do not wish you trouble either; but, following the people's philosophy, I will simply…
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
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Early love is exciting and exhilarating. It's light and bubbly. Anyone can love like that. But after three children, after a separation and a near-divorce,…
— Liane Moriarty
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Violence is spiritual junk food, and boredom is spiritual anorexia.
— Peter Kreeft
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You're bored, aren't you.' 'I need constant distraction. Shall we go?' 'Uh, aren't you supposed to delegate responsibility or something? If you're not here, who's…
— Derek Landy
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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
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Nothing happens. Nobody comes, nobody goes. It's awful.
— Samuel Beckett
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Boredom is that awful state of inaction when the very medicine ― that is, activity ― which could solve it, is seen as odious. Archery?…
— Margaret George
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He gazed amusedly down the table at Tessa. “You’re the shape-changer, aren’t you?†he said. “Magnus Bane told me about you. No mark on you…
— Cassandra Clare
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You're fourteen years old. You've only had that hair for fourteen years and you want to change it already! How bored are you going to…
— Louise Rennison
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The way she told it, she was such a criminal even the most God-fearing church ladies got bored of reporting on her; she did the…
— Kami Garcia
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We're all sinking in the same boat here. We're all bored and desperate and waiting for something to happen. Waiting for life to get better.…
— Susane Colasanti
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I abhor the idea of a perfect world. It would bore me to tears.
— Shelby Foote
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Everything smaller than Heaven bores us because only Heaven is bigger than our hearts.
— Peter Kreeft
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I gave him a bored look. I had been threatened many times before and had learned that the men who didn’t make verbal threats were…
— Maria V. Snyder
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I was tired and crazy and rushed, and every time I boarded a plane, I wanted the plane to crash. I envied people dying of…
— Chuck Palahniuk
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