80 Boredom Quotes

An affair now and then is good for a marriage. It adds spice, stops it from getting boring... I ought to know.

The best that can be said for Norwegian television is that it gives you the sensation of a coma without the worry and inconvenience.

Marry Ann; and at the end of a week you'll find no more inspiration in her than in a plate of muffins.

It's the boredom that kills you. You read until you're tired of that. You do crossword puzzles until you're tired of that. This is torture. This is mental torture.

There is nothing so desperately monotonous as the sea, and I no longer wonder at the cruelty of pirates.

Morality is a venereal disease. Its primary stage is called virtue; its secondary stage, boredom; its tertiary stage, syphilis.

By his very success in inventing labor-saving devices, modern man has manufactured an abyss of boredom that only the privileged classes in earlier civilizations have ever fathomed.

Highly educated bores are by far the worst; they know so much, in such fiendish detail, to be boring about.

Last year, I reviewed a nine-hour documentary about the lives of Mongolian yak herdsmen, and I would rather see it again than sit through The Frighteners.

If you get bored with the person you married for love, there's something wrong with you - not with that person.

In the first movement alone, I took note of six pregnancies and at least four miscarriages.

Being dead is one way to experience nothing - another is to attend some classes at my school.

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

There is no such thing on earth as an uninteresting subject; the only thing that can exist is an uninterested person.

When some English moralists write about the importance of having character, they appear to mean only the importance of having a dull character.

But her life was as cold as an attic facing north; and boredom, like a silent spider, was weaving its web in the shadows, in every corner of her heart.

Deep down, all the while, she was waiting for something to happen. Like a sailor in distress, she kept casting desperate glances over the solitary waster of her life, seeking some white sail in the distant mists of the horizon. She had no idea by what wind it would reach her, toward what shore it would bear her, or what kind of craft it would be - tiny boat or towering vessel, laden with heartbreaks or filled to the gunwhales with rapture. But every morning when she awoke she hoped that today would be the day; she listened for every sound, gave sudden starts, was surprised when nothing happened; and then, sadder with each succeeding sunset, she longed for tomorrow.

The minister gave out his text and droned along monotonously through an argument that was so prosy that many a head by and by began to nod - and yet it was an argument that dealt in limitless fire and brimstone and thinned the predestined elect down to a company so small as to be hardly worth the saving.

You get ideas from daydreaming. You get ideas from being bored. You get ideas all the time. The only difference between writers and other people is we notice when we're doing it.

The so-called conscientiousness of the great majority of painters is nothing but perfection laboriously applied to the art of being boring.

In Zen, it is said, if something is boring after two minutes, try it for four. If still boring, then eight. Then sixteen. Then thirty-two. Eventually one discovers that it is not boring at all.

Mad Dog Time is the first movie I have seen that does not improve on the sight of a blank screen viewed for the same length of time. Oh, I've seen bad movies before. But they usually made me care about how bad they were. Watching Mad Dog Time is like waiting for the bus in a city where you're not sure they have a bus line...Mad Dog Time should be cut into free ukulele picks for the poor.

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 me if I'm leaving.

To a man standing on the shore, time passes quicker than to a man on a boat - especially if the man on the boat is with his wife.

Query: How to contrive not to waste one's time? Answer: By being fully aware of it all the while. Ways in which this can be done: By spending one's days on an uneasy chair in a dentist's waiting room; by remaining on one's balcony all a Sunday afternoon; by travelling by the longest and least-convenient train routes, and of course standing all the way; by queueing at the box-office of theatres and then not booking a seat.

I like boring things.

On a starred night Prince Lucifer uprose. Tired of his dark dominion swung the fiend.

So I bought a .44 magnum it was solid steel cast And in the blessed name of Elvis well I just let it blast 'Til my TV lay in pieces there at my feet And they busted me for disturbin' the almighty peace. Judge said 'What you got in your defense son?' 'Fifty-seven channels and nothin' on' I can see by your eyes friend you're just about gone Fifty-seven channels and nothin' on.

'Excellent; all is well. The 'everlasting tedium' exactly countervenes the 'immediate onset of death' and I am left only with the 'canker' which, in the person of Firx, already afflicts me. One must use his wits in dealing with maledictions.' - Cugel

And now you've got athletes on cocaine. You have baseball players having to go in front of grand juries saying, 'Yeah! I did cocaine. But can you blame me, though? It's a slow goddamn game, jack! Third base coach is doing this shit all the time. I don't know whether to slide or do a line, you know what I'm sayin'? And then there's that music. That (intro to CHARGE!)

If a meaningless person says something is meaningless, that's probably proof that it isn't meaningless; and if a boring person says something is boring, that's probably proof that it's interesting.

He hath consumed a whole night in lying looking to his great toe, about which he hath seen Tartars and Turks, Romans and Carthaginians, fight in his imagination.

You - are not a victim You - just scream with boredom You - are not evicting time

I got bored of the tedious conversations, talking to the dealer in a stairwell where you're not supposed to be, then going back to a depressing room and spending nine hours locked up going 'eeerh', then going back to get more with what little money you have left

She sounded how you'd expect talking to a tree to sound - bored out of her mind

If you get tired of just hanging around Pick up a guitar, spin a web of sound And then you could be strung out all day With lovers and clowns Now I find myself still hanging around

Because people have no thoughts to deal in, they deal cards, and try and win one another's money. Idiots!

The two foes of human happiness are pain and boredom.

I rather like bad wine; one gets so bored with good wine.

The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity.

A tedium that includes only the anticipation of more tedium; the regret, now, of tomorrow regretting having regretted today.

I never go to where's a risk. I'm frightened of dangers down to boredom.

Tedium is the lack of a mithology. To whom has no beliefs, even doubt is impossible, even skepticism has no strength to suspect.

Nous pardonnons souvent a ceux qui nous ennuient, mais nous ne pouvons pardonner a ceux que nous ennuyons.

Ce qui fait que les amants et les maitresses ne s'ennuient point d'etre ensemble, c'est qu'ils parlent toujours d'eux-memes.

God created woman. And boredom did indeed cease from that moment - but many other things ceased as well! Woman was God's second mistake.

Against boredom even gods struggle in vain.

I fell asleep reading a dull book and dreamed I kept on reading, so I awoke from sheer boredom.

All Nine often used to come to me, I mean the Muses: But I ignored them: my girl was in my arms. Now I've left my sweetheart: and they've left me, And I roll my eyes, seeking a knife or rope. But Heaven is full of gods: You came to aid me: Greetings, Boredom, mother of the Muse.

There is no conversation more boring than the one where everybody agrees.

My own business always bores me to death. I prefer other people's.

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