Bored Quotes

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Listen to me: I never married because I was too easily bored. It's an awful, self-defeating trait to have. It's much better to be too… — Rachel Cohn
Somehow I found him. Somehow I found Al's sarcastic thoughts, bitter and old. Tired, angry, bored. Alone. — Kim Harrison
I'm not often bored,' I assured her. "Life's not long enough for that. — Agatha Christie
The day, like the previous days, dragged sluggishly by in a kind of insipid idleness, devoid even of that dreamy expectancy which can make idleness… — Vladimir Nabokov
Compassion is an unstable emotion. It needs to be translated into action, or it withers. The question of what to do with the feelings that… — Susan Sontag
But all I feel is impatience, fury for the opposition I anticipate and the lies I'm going to have to tell to make it happen,… — Kristin Cashore
Asil has appointed himself my guardian?" asked Charles softly. Asil was overstepping himself. "He was bored, he told me," said his father. He gave Charles… — Patricia Briggs
Weeks passed like boats waiting to sail into the starless dawn, we were full of aimless endless darkness. — Jonathan Safran Foer
He was prepared to die for it, as one of Baudelaire's dandies might have been prepared to kill himself in order to preserve himself in… — Angela Carter
Bored people looked for drama and caused trouble. — Lisa Unger
Considering Adrian had once gotten bored while reading while reading a particularly long menu, I had a hard time imagining he'd read the Hugo book… — Richelle Mead
I'm just not having a very good time and I don't have any reason to think it'll get anything but worse. I'm tired. I'm hurt.… — Marsha Norman
Mama, I know you used to ride the bus. Riding the bus and itâ€™s hot and bumpy and crowded and too noisy and more than… — Marsha Norman
No. You can't. And I can't do anything either, about my life, to change it, make it better, make me feel better about it. Like… — Marsha Norman
But I know too that if we ever make a world without shadow, if the chemists and scientists and psychologists succeed in abolishing fear, pain,… — MacDonald Harris
Banality is like boredom: bored people are boring people, people who think that things are banal are themselves banal. Interesting people can find something interesting… — Idries Shah
If the regular length of a shot is increased, one becomes bored, but if you keep on making it longer, a new quality emerges, a… — Geoff Dyer
Give me boredom. At least I know where I'm going to eat and sleep tonight. — Neil Gaiman
I know," he said in almost bored contemplation. "My manners suck. I like to chalk it up to a dissatisfying childhood." "I'd chalk it up… — Darynda Jones
I noticed you the first week. Not just because of how pretty you are, though of course, that played into it. It was the way… — Tammara Webber

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