Best 777 quotes in «boredom quotes» category

You need to let the little things that would ordinarily bore you suddenly thrill you.

You see, I'm not mad, I suffer from depression. It's not like ordinary misery. It's like dying of boredom. It's black.

You've already said you were going to kill me," Alex said, "but I didn't think that meant you were going to bore me to death.

A bore is someone who persists in holding his own views after we have enlightened him with ours.

A bit of theory as we settle down for lunch: the waiter's treatment of Kitty is actually a kind of sandwich, with the bottom bread being the bored and slightly effete way he normally acts with customers, the middle being the crazed and abnormal way he feels around this famous nineteen-year-old girl, and the top bread being his attempt to contain and conceal this alien middle layer with some mode of behavior that at least approximates the bottom layer of boredom and effeteness that is his norm.

A bore is a man who, when you ask him how he is, tells you.

A bore is someone who deprives you of solitude without providing you with company.

According to Gur's theory of boredom, everything that happens in the world today is because of boredom: love, war, inventions, fake fireplaces - ninety-five percent of all that is pure boredom.

Acting offers me an outlet. Here is the perfect opportunity to spend fleeting moments becoming an entirely different person; to experience a character entirely unlike myself, but to also make such a character a part of me. There is no routine here; there is no boredom. How does one get bored of life?

A dull ax never loves grindstones.

Adrenalin dispels boredom. Run, you sufferers from ennui! Run for your lives!

Aging has its own beauty. It is a beautiful stage for doing inner work. You have a chance to not be so dependent on social approval. You can be a little more eccentric. You can be more alone. And you can examine loneliness and boredom instead of being afraid of them. There is such an art and a possibility of aging.This is quotes copyright © By Pumpkin Limited

Against boredom even gods struggle in vain.

Against boredom the gods themselves fight in vain.

A man has got to keep his extrication. The important thing is not to get bogged down In what he has to do to earn a living.

A great affliction of all Philistines is that idealities afford them no entertainment, but to escape from boredom they are always in need of realities.

All illegal narcotics are medicinal. Boredom is a disease worse than cancer. Drugs cure it, with little or no side effects if used as directed. Life's temporary for a reason, it gets boring after awhile. You should be inventing new drugs is what you should be doing! Newer, crazier drugs... and more holes, that's what you ladies need!

All our life passes in this way: we seek rest by struggling against certain obstacles, and once they are overcome, rest proves intolerable because of the boredom it produces.

All sizes of film sets have the same level of excitement and friction and tension and then vast sections of boredom that define the process, so I love it all.

All things here appear to me to trudge on in one and the same round: we rise in the morning that we may eat breakfast, dinner andsupper and to bed again that we may get up the next morning and do the same: so that you never saw two peas more alike than our yesterday and to-day.

And I, stepping from this skin Of old bandages, boredoms, old faces Step to you from the black car of Lethe, Pure as a baby.

Americans don’t want drama, especially good drama, they just want their boredom killed.

Among the idle rich, boredom is one of the most common causes of unhappiness. People who have difficulty in earning their living may suffer greatly, but they are not bored. Wealthy men and women become bored when they depend upon the theater for their enjoyment instead of making their own lives interesting.

A month passes by and brings another month. Easy to guess what lies ahead: all of yesterday's boredom. And tomorrow ends up no longer like tomorrow.

And there is a time, glorious too in its own way, when one scarcely exists, when one is a complete void. I mean, when boredom seems the very stuff of life.

An enthusiast may bore others, but he has never a dull moment himself.

A philistine is habitually bored and looks for things that won't bore him. An artist finds things boring, but is never bored.

An oasis of horror in a desert of boredom.

A person with friends need never be bored. There is always more to fathom and enjoy in the complexity of others, and always the possibility of finding a way to delight them.

Artists never seem to get bored with life.

Armed with a paint-box, one cannot be bored, one cannot be left at a loose end, one cannot 'have several days on one's hands.

Art makes you reinvent the wheel with regularity. If you don't, art gets bored and slips away.

As for boredom ... I notice that it leaves me as soon as I am doing something that has got to be done.

As a reader, I have a very short attention span and a low tolerance for boredom, and I find that comes in handy with my writing. If I get bored writing something, I pity the people who will then try to read it.

A scholar knows no boredom.

As soon as you set foot on a yacht you belong to some man, not to yourself, and you die of boredom.

Climate definitely interests the climate crowd at some science magazines, talks or blogs. Some blogs are amazing. They will post one comment about one graph of temperature records from tree rings and get over a thousand comments. Which is boredom so purified and crystalized it's in an unadulterated form that could make even a robot want to commit suicide.

Boredom and fatigue are great historical forces.

Boredom comes not from reality but from people who are only half alive.

Boredom dismantles the mind, renders it superficial, out at the seams, saps it from within and dislocates it.

Boredom has an important function, because pushing through it can unleash creativity.

BOREDOM with established truths is a great enemy of free men.

boredom has a tendency to bring out the worst in people's faces.

Boredom is just the reverse side of fascination: both depend on being outside rather than inside a situation, and one leads to the other.

Boredom is like a pitiless zooming in on the epidermis of time. Every instant is dilated and magnified like the pores of the face.

Boredom is the biggest problem. The same position. Same day of the week. It becomes boring when you don't bring any added flowers home.

Boredom is the keynote of poverty — of all its indignities, it is perhaps the hardest of all to live with — for where there is no money there is no change of any kind, not of scene or of routine. To be able to break out of its dark brown sameness.

Boredom makes you do crazy things

Boredom turns to panic if my beloved leaves before the usual time.

Boredom is a certain sign that we are allowing our faculties to rust in idleness.