Boredom quotes

Boredom is… a vital problem for the moralist, since half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it.

I’ve got nothing to say most of the time.

When you combine boring with fear, you have fun.

Money and investing can be complex, confusing, and often boring subjects.

I think if we didn’t contradict ourselves, it would be awfully boring. It would be tedious to be alive.

I tend to get bored quickly, which means I must be boring.

You listen to the radio and all the songs sound the same, from 8 in the morning to 12.

The capacity of human beings to bore one another seems to be vastly greater than that of any other animal.

I have been a youngster and I know speeches are boring.

If it’s all instruction, you get annoyed with it and bored, and you stop reading. If it’s all entertainment, you read it quite quickly, your heart going pitty-pat, pitty-pat. But when you finish, that’s it. You’re not going to think about it much afterward, apart from the odd nightmare. You’re not going to read that book again.

If you’re bored with life – you don’t get up every morning with a burning desire to do things – you don’t have enough goals.

Honestly, I’ve been thinking lately about how boring I am. When I do get time to myself, I watch TV.

I can think of nothing more boring for the American people than to have to sit in their living rooms for a whole half hour looking at my face on their television screens.

Somebody’s boring me. I think it’s me.

A subject for a great poet would be God’s boredom after the seventh day of creation.

I like telling stories, and I tell stories that interest me. It would be boring to have to go to nothing but the best restaurants. That would be a misery to me.

I like to do things quickly because I’m easily bored.

The basic fact about human existence is not that it is a tragedy, but that it is a bore. It is not so much a war as an endless standing in line.

I hate going to the gym and doing it the old-fashioned way. I hate anything that’s too straightforward, too routine, too familiar. I get bored really, really quickly.

Work is making a living out of being bored.

Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves?

I take risks because I get bored. And I get bored very easily.

Boredom is the legitimate kingdom of the philanthropic.

Ever since the beginning of rock and roll, there’s been an Axl Rose. And it’s just boring. It’s totally boring to me.

Gee, its lonesome in the outfield. It’s hard to keep awake with nothing to do.

The presidency has many problems, but boredom is the least of them.

I don’t want to wake up and be bored. That’s probably my greatest fear is to have nothing to do. What better job is there than to play quarterback for an NFL team, and certainly one that I’ve been on for a long time and had success with? I don’t plan on giving it up any time soon.

A lot of people are bored of all the political correctness.

I never look at fashion magazines. I find them incredibly boring.

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

The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom.

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.

The secret of being a bore… is to tell everything.

I’d be so bored if I wasn’t going out there, knowing that I could still do it. So, I’m going to work hard to be ready to go, and I still plan on playing for a long time.

I don’t believe in an afterlife, so I don’t have to spend my whole life fearing hell, or fearing heaven even more. For whatever the tortures of hell, I think the boredom of heaven would be even worse.

Men are so willing to respect anything that bores them.

I don’t see myself as a philosopher. That’s awfully boring.

Writing bores me so.

I’ve lived in good climate, and it bores the hell out of me. I like weather rather than climate.

There is something curiously boring about somebody else’s happiness.

I know many books which have bored their readers, but I know of none which has done real evil.

Your true traveller finds boredom rather agreeable than painful. It is the symbol of his liberty – his excessive freedom. He accepts his boredom, when it comes, not merely philosophically, but almost with pleasure.

I’ve got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom.

Virtuous people often revenge themselves for the constraints to which they submit by the boredom which they inspire.

Thus so wretched is man that he would weary even without any cause for weariness… and so frivolous is he that, though full of a thousand reasons for weariness, the least thing, such as playing billiards or hitting a ball, is sufficient enough to amuse him.

I don’t like to be bored.

I am quite serious when I say that I do not believe there are, on the whole earth besides, so many intensified bores as in these United States. No man can form an adequate idea of the real meaning of the word, without coming here.

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

Life is better than death, I believe, if only because it is less boring, and because it has fresh peaches in it.