Boredom Quotes

698 Boredom quotes by 498 unique authors

We are raising a generation that has a woefully small stock of ideas and interests and emotions. It must be amused at all costs but… — Robert McCracken
My biggest concern during a race is getting bored. The biggest thing I have to combat is falling asleep while going around and around. — Mario Andretti
A bore is someone who persists in holding his own views after we have enlightened him with ours. — Malcolm Forbes
I'm rather bored by the subject - meaning me. It's a sort of a yoke, but at times you know, a yoke is a kind… — Laurence Olivier
The pilot of the Galilean lake; Two massy keys he bore, of metals twain (The golden opes, the iron shuts amain). — John Milton
The leaf was darkish, and had prickles on it, But in another country, as he said, Bore a bright golden flow'r, but not in this… — John Milton
Big book, a big bore. — Callimachus
Being a [bank] director is like being a pilot of an aircraft - it's years of boredom and seconds of terror. — Unknown Author
Squeeze marriage as much as you like, you will never extract anything from it but fun for bachelors and boredom for husbands. — Honore de Balzac
Boredom, not the will, is the mother of change. Necessity is the father. — Mason Cooley
Everyone will recognize that each sound carries with it a tangle of sensations, already well-known and exhausted, which predispose the listener to boredom, in spite… — Luigi Russolo
These days, when people are alone, or feel a moment of boredom, they tend to reach for a device. In a movie theater, at a… — Sherry Turkle
In Madame Bovary Flaubert never allows anything to go on too long; he can suggest years of boredom in a paragraph, capture the essence of… — Michael Dirda
Boredom is a sign of satisfied ignorance, blunted apprehension, crass sympathies, dull understanding, feeble powers of attention, and irreclaimable weakness of character. — James Bridie
Boredom is not in the world, but in the way we see the world. — Paulo Coelho
Maybe you reach a certain point in evolution where boredom is the greatest threat to your survival. Maybe this isn't a planetary takeover at all,… — Rick Yancey
My greatest discovery has been my love of boredom and to get fun out of it. — Julien Torma
Never in the history of boredom has anyone been more bored than I am right now. — Jack O'Neill
What if we choose not to do the things we are supposed to do? The principal gain is a sense of an authentic act -… — Joseph Campbell
Greasy food might not be good for your body, but it does wonders for the soul. A healthy diet may prolong your life, but what… — Jessica Zafra

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