Bored quotes
799 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
"I think a person needs to learn from childhood to find himself alone. It means to not be bored when you’re by yourself, because a person who finds himself bored when alone –as it seems to me– is in danger."
"If I die prematurely at any rate I shall be saved from being bored to death by my own success."
"Life is for living and working at. If you find anything or anybody a bore, the fault is in yourself."
"We wait. We are bored. (He throws up his hand.) No, don't protest, we are bored to death, there's no denying it. Good. A diversion comes along and what do we do? We let it go to waste. Come, let's get to work! (He advances towards the heap, stops in his stride.) In an instant all will vanish and we'll be alone more, in the midst of nothingness!"
"Broadly speaking, human beings may be divided into three classes: those who are billed to death, those who are worried to death, and those who are bored to death."
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"I'm so bored with it all."
"Red is the great clarifier - bright and revealing. I can't imagine becoming bored with red - it would be like becoming bored with the person you love."
"A lot of people are bored of all the political correctness."
"If the regular length of a shot is increased, one becomes bored, but if you keep on making it longer, it piques your interest, and if you make it even longer, a new quality emerges, a special intensity of attention."
"I'm bored with that line. I never use it anymore. My new line is 'In 15 minutes everybody will be famous.'"
"[I]nside every computer, there is a hidden man being bored."
"Never get bored or cynical. Yesterday is a thing of the past."
"Nothing happens. Nobody comes, nobody goes. It's awful."
"Compassion is an unstable emotion. It needs to be translated into action, or it withers. The question is what to do with the feelings that have been aroused, the knowledge that has been communicated. People don't become inured to what they are shown — if that's the right way to describe what happens — because of the quantity of images dumped on them. It is passivity that dulls feeling."
"Equations are just the boring part of mathematics. I attempt to see things in terms of geometry."
"The only thing worse than being bored is being boring."
"Society is now one polished horde, formed of two mighty tries, the Bores and Bored."
"Nothing that comes and goes is you. 'I am bored.' Who knows this? 'I am angry, sad, afraid.' Who knows this? You are the knowing, not the condition that is known."
"Pensive they sit, and roll their languid eyes."
"Never be bored, and you will never be boring."
"I think that it's a crime to say you are bored when time is so precious and there are so many things to do in life: read, learn, watch."
"We stand before God's wonder and yet we are disinterested and bored. This should not be."
"If everything gets too serious for me on the album, I get kinda bored. I've got to have some kind of jovial things in there."
"Work is making a living out of being bored."
"I am bored. The great things are done. The German Reich is made."
