Bored Quotes

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Life has been reduced to a series of long periods of boredom in the office punctuated by high-octane "experiences" which you can rack up on… — Tom Hodgkinson
What a difference! Under the esthetic sky, everything is buoyant, beautiful, transient! when ethics arrives on the scene, everything becomes harsh, angular and infinitely boring — Soren Kierkegaard
Our age has become so mechanical that this has also affected our recreation. People have gotten used to sitting down and watching a movie, a… — Maria von Trapp
Boredom is your mind and body's way of telling you you're not living up to your potential. — Hal Sparks
Good digestions, the gray monotony of provincial life, and the boredom-ah the soul-destroying boredom-of long days of mild content. — Jean-Paul Sartre
Our lives are led, and our decisions made, within a network of needs and wants, some natural, some arising from the acts of others, some… — Carl Cohen
Doing anything when you're bored is very very boring. Anyway, doing nothing is the point of being bored. The pleasure of being bored ismooning about… — Aidan Chambers
And while you and the rest of your kind are battling together-year after year-for this special privilege of being 'bored to death,' the 'real girl'… — Eleanor Hallowell Abbott
Do you realise that people die of boredom in London suburbs? It's the second biggest cause of death amongs the English in general. Sheer boredom... — Alexander McCall Smith
Boredom is that awful state of inaction when the very medicine - that is, activity - which could solve it, is seen as odious. — Margaret George
Boredom is your window on the properties of time that one tends to ignore to the likely peril of one's mental equilibrium. It is your… — Joseph Brodsky
Life is never boring but some people choose to be bored. The concept of boredom entails an inability to use up present moments in a… — Wayne Dyer
I am convinced that boredom is one of the greatest tortures. If I were to imagine Hell, it would be the place where you were… — Erich Fromm
Boredom is the self being stuffed with itself. — Walker Percy
Boredom is what you fight. Constant, ever-present boredom. So you learn to look forward to small things. Sunlight glimpsed through a cloud, an extra piece… — Valerie Wilson Wesley
The tendency is to blame boredom on the environment. "This town is really dull" or "What a boring speaker." The particular town or speaker is… — Wayne Dyer
Boredom is nothing but the experience of a paralysis of our productive powers. — Erich Fromm
I think what we call the dullness of things is a disease in ourselves. Else how could anyone find an intense interest in life? And… — George Eliot
Boredom is my worst enemy. It's killed a lot of my friends, but it won't get me. When I get bored, I go risk my… — Larry Niven
Boredom flourishes too, when you feel safe. It's a symptom of security. — Eugene Ionesco

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