Famous Quotes & Sayings

Maureen Dowd

The insane have achieved political respectability while the sane act too good for it all. The irrational celebrate while the rational act bored and above-it-all.

Philip Larkin

Life is first boredom, then fear,

Laini Taylor

Boredom is a terrible affliction of the soulless.

John Updike

How can the planet keep turning and turning and not get so bored it explodes?

James Richardson

I'm sitting here bored, ... trying to remember that everything is a complete mystery.

Philip Seymour Hoffman

Don't let people treat you like a cigarette, they only use you when they're bored and step on you when they're done. Be like drugs, let them die for you.

Peggy Noonan

I was sailing from tedium to apathy with a side trip to torpor.

Marie Antoinette

I am terrified of being bored.

Avi

The truth is I don't watch TV at all. It bores me.

Miranda July

I looked out the window for other passengers in love with their drivers, but we were well disguised, we pretended boredom and prayed for traffic.

Mignon McLaughlin

Boredom is often the cause of promiscuity, and always its result.

Emily Oster

In short, humans are programmed to get bored.

Elvis Presley

I hope I didn't bore you too much with my life story.

Elizabeth Gilbert

The only boring people I know are bored people.

John Jay Chapman

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

John Berryman

I conclude now I have no inner resources, because I am heavy bored. Peoples bore me, literature bores me, especially great literature,

Geoffrey Beene

The greatest concubines in history knew that everything revealed with nothing concealed is a bore.

Joe Perry

If you take your last album & try to copy it, then thats sure to hell the way to stagnation. And that makes me bored...and if I'm bored then the music is boring and so are the band!

Eric Topol

I love information. I can never get enough. I get bored easily.

Lord Hailsham

You ought not to be ashamed of being bored. What you ought to be ashamed of is being boring.

Malcolm McDowell

I never feel I repeat myself. I really go out of my way to amuse myself. I would be bored stiff. If I feel the déjavu when I'm doing something, I stop and rethink and rework it.

Freya Stark

monotony is not to be worshipped as a virtue; nor the marriage bed treated as a coffin for security rather than a couch from which to rise refreshed.

Henri Matisse

Perhaps I might be satisfied, momentarily, with a work finished at one sitting, but I would soon get bored looking at it; therefore, I prefer to continue working on it so that later I may recognize it as a work of my mind.

Heinrich Heine

From every Englishman emanates a kind of gas, the deadly choke-damp of boredom.

Heraclitus

To do the same thing over and over again is not only boredom: it is to be controlled by rather than to control what you do.

Henry Ward Beecher

A dull ax never loves grindstones.

Henry James

I am blackly bored when they are at large and at work; but somehow I am still more blackly bored when they are shut up in Holloway and we are deprived of them.

Helena Bonham Carter

When I was young I had so many inferiority complexes. I had an inferiority complex because I didn’t go to university. I had an inferiority complex because I didn’t train. Then it gets tiring. And you do get bored of it.

Katee Sackhoff

Some of the craziest people I've met, in my life, are some of the most brilliant people I've met. It's almost as if they get bored in their own brain and they have to come up with this craziness to stay interested in life.

Josh Hopkins

I'm bored. I'm not unprofessional. I'm just bored.

Katharine Whitehorn

In hell they will bore you, in heaven you will bore them.

Katharine Hepburn

It's a bore - B-O-R-E - when you find you've begun to rot.

Kate Mara

Eventually you get bored and you want to work.