Famous Quotes & Sayings

Roger Ebert

I am utterly bored by celebrity interviews. Most celebrities are devoid of interest.

Roger Ebert

There's nothing like impending death to rouse you from existential boredom.

Samuel Johnson

Surely a long life must be somewhat tedious, since we are forced to call in so many trifling things to help rid us of our time, which will never return.

Rob Lowe

If people are watching me 365 days a year, 360 days they might be bored to tears. And on the other five days, maybe I would qualify as Satan.

Rebecca Stead

Boredom is what happens to people who have no control over their minds.

Uma Thurman

Boredom is a great motivator.

Vince Staples

I feel like it's impossible to be completely yourself, because you'll always get bored; you have to push your own limits.

Samuel Johnson

Sir, you have but two topics, yourself and me. I am sick of both.

Sade Adu

I don't get easily bored. I'm not that kind of person.

Robertson Davies

Boredom and stupidity and patriotism, especially when combined, are three of the greatest evils of the world we live in.

Robert Payne

Long before the empire had reached its greatest extent, the Romans were bored by it.

Wallace Stevens

It is the unknown that excites the ardor of scholars, who, in the known alone, would shrivel up with boredom.

Wayne Dyer

The concept of boredom entails an inability to use up present moments in a personally fulfilling way.

Samuel Beckett

Nothing happens. Nobody comes, nobody goes. It's awful.

Wayne Dyer

Life is never boring, but some people choose to be bored.

Wayne Dyer

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 never dull, it is you experiencing the boredom, and you can eliminate it by doing something else with your mind or energy at that moment.

Warren Zevon

I don't get depressed and I don't get bored

Thomas Jane

I don't like to stick to one formula. That gets boring. I get bored, so I want to try different ways of getting inside something.

Victor Hugo

One sometimes says: 'He killed himself because he was bored with life.' One ought rather to say: 'He killed himself because he was bored by lack of life.'

Hal Sparks

Boredom is your mind and body's way of telling you you're not living up to your potential.

Greta Garbo

I'm afraid of NOTHING except being bored!

Jeremy Clarkson

I wore a groove in the kitchen floor with endless trips to the fridge, hoping against hope that I had somehow missed a plateful of cold sausages on the previous 4,000 excursions. Then, for no obvious reason, I decided to buy a footstool.

Fulton J. Sheen

The reason we're bored is because we don't love anything.

Jewel

I get bored very easily. I have a voracious appetite and I do not feel alive if I'm repeating something I'm good at. So I'm always looking for new challenges.

Jewel

I guess I'm a Gemini through and through, but I'm mercurial. I get bored doing the same things.

Jean-Paul Sartre

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

What is boredom? It is when there is simultaneously too much and not enough.

George Sanders

Dear world, I am leaving because I am bored.

Jean Paul

A scholar knows no boredom.

Jim Harrison

I have closely noted that people who watch a great deal of TV never again seem able to adjust to the actual pace of life. The speed of the passing images becomes the speed the aspire to and they seem to develop an impatience and boredom with anything else.

Elsa Maxwell

Down with boredom. It has to go.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

i'm a slave to my emotions, to my likes, to my hatred of boredom, to most of my desires

Eugene Delacroix

When a thing bores you, do not do it.