Boredom Quotes

A terrible thing happened to me last night again—nothing.

She is probably by this time as tired of me, as I am of her; but as she is too Polite and I am too civil to say so, our letters are still as frequent and affectionate as ever, and our Attachment as firm and sincere as when it first commenced.

All man's troubles come from not knowing how to sit still in one room.

I'm so bored with it all.

I begin with the principle that all men are bores. Surely no one will prove himself so great a bore as to contradict me in this.

All the trouble in the world is due to the fact that man cannot sit still in a room.

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

The prospect of being pleased tomorrow will never console me for the boredom of today.

Martin in particular concluded that man was born to live either in the convulsions of misery, or in the lethargy of boredom.

Audacious ribald: your laughter will finish in hideous boredom before morning.

If at any moment Time stays his hand, it is only when we are delivered over to the miseries of boredom.

We are almost always bored by just those whom we must not find boring.

I'm so bored. I went to the food locker yesterday to visit my meat.

People get tired of everything, and of nothing sooner than of what they most like.

Boredom is just the reverse side of fascination.

Continuity in everything is unpleasant.

There is nothing so insupportable to man as to be in entire repose, without passion, occupation, amusement, or application. Then it is that he feels his own nothingness, isolation, insignificance, dependent nature, powerless, emptiness. Immediately there issue from his soul ennui, sadness, chagrin, vexation, despair.

O Lord! I don't know which is the worst of the country, the walking or the sitting at home with nothing to do.

Work is the law of life, and to reject it as boredom is to submit to it as torment.

There are some experiences in life which should not be demanded twice from any man, and one of them is listening to the Brahms Requiem.

I'm certainly not tired - work doesn't tire people, it's getting bored that's tiring.

LADY STUTFIELD I adore silent men. MRS ALLONBY Oh, Ernest isn't silent. He talks the whole time. But he has got no conversation. What he talks about I don't know. I haven't listened to him for years.

Without a job all there is to life is boredom and insecurity.

Boredom ... causes us to neglect more duties than does interest.

We are always bored by the very people by whom it is vital not to be bored.

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.

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

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

You get a little stir crazy during the week.

Of course, most of the people in this world are stressed, and most of those who are not stressed are totally bored!

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.

And I am bored to death with it. Bored to death with this place, bored to death with my life, bored to death with myself.

If life — the craving for which is the very essence of our being — were possessed of any positive intrinsic value, there would be no such thing as boredom at all: mere existence would satisfy us in itself, and we should want for nothing.

That human life must be some kind of mistake is sufficiently proved by the simple observation that man is a compound of needs which are hard to satisfy; that their satisfaction achieves nothing but a painless condition in which he is only given over to boredom . . .

The sun did not shine. It was too wet to play. So we sat in the house. All that cold, cold, wet day.

Want and boredom are indeed the twin poles of human life.

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

My life is very monotonous," the fox said. "I hunt chickens; men hunt me. All the chickens are just alike, and all the men are just alike. And, in consequence, I am a little bored.

Art creates an incomparable and unique effect, and, having done so, passes on to other things. Nature, upon the other hand, forgetting that that imitation can be made the sincerest form of insult, keeps on repeating this effect until we all become absolutely wearied of it.

Condition de l'homme: inconstance, ennui, inquie tude. Man's condition. Inconstancy, boredom, anxiety.

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

When I get real bored, I like to drive downtown and get a great parking spot, then sit in my car and count how many people ask if I'm leaving.

What is the task of higher education? To make a man into a machine. What are the means employed? He is taught how to suffer being bored.

Man finds nothing so intolerable as to be in a state of complete rest, without passions, without occupation, without diversion, without effort. Then he feels his nullity, loneliness, inadequacy, dependence, helplessness, emptiness.

We often forgive those who bore us, but we cannot forgive those whom we bore.

A man is like a phonograph with half-a-dozen records. You soon get tired of them all; and yet you have to sit at table whilst he reels them off to every new visitor.

In a world which furnishes so many employments which are useful, and so many which are amusing, it is our own fault if we ever know what ennui [boredom] is, or if we are ever driven to the miserable resource of gaming, which corrupts our dispositions, and teaches us a habit of hostility against all mankind.

It is difficult to keep quiet if you have nothing to do

Occasionally, once a speaker is on his feet, it is difficult to get him to sit down. ... If and when he returns to earth, he notices half of the room is paging the other half and a few are playing with the melted candles.

You become about as exciting as your food blender. The kids come in, look you in the eye, and ask if anybody's home.

He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. Is not life a hundred times too short for us to bore ourselves?

Nothing is so intolerable to man as being fully at rest, without passion, without business, without entertainment, without care. It is then that he recognizes that he is empty, insufficient, dependent, ineffectual. From the depths of his soul now comes at once boredom, gloom, sorrow, chagrin, resentment and despair.

There is no purpose in living where there is nothing to do.

Nothing is so intolerable to man as being fully at rest, without a passion, without business, without entertainment, without care.

Writing bores me so.

We often bore others when we think we cannot possibly bore them.

How slow and still the time did drag along.

Only the most acute and active animals are capable of boredom.

The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom.

Conversation about the weather is the last refuge of the unimaginative.