"I went to work to make money, not because I was bored. It was money that I wanted."
Read quote
3 likes
Bored quotes
Bored
799 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
Explore further
Topics related to Bored
Browse quotes that often appear alongside bored — connected by shared ideas and recurring themes.
Quote collection
Bored quotes (page 7 of 40)
Follow a thought to its author, or read the full quote page.
"High on a rocky promontory sat an Electric Monk on a bored horse."
Read quote
3 likes
"[Completely bored by a country weekend, wiring to a friend:] For heaven's sake, rush me a loaf of bread, enclosing saw and file."
Read quote
3 likes
"Throughout your day, when you notice that your thoughts have drifted away, come back to where you are. You'll instantly see why you drifted away, whether because you were bored, anxious, dwelling on the past, or anticipating the future."
Read quote
3 likes
"One thing any backpacker will tell you is that it's tedious and monotonous. You're bored sometimes, so you really have to make the fun in your head."
Read quote
3 likes
"I have stuff I'm interested in working on, and I'd rather work on what excites me than complete projects from the past that I've grown bored with."
Read quote
3 likes
"You could be married and bored or single and lonely. Ain't no happiness nowhere."
Read quote
3 likes
"The worst days are when you feel foggy in the head - chemo-brain they call it. It's awful because you feel boring. As well as bored. And stupid. And resigned."
Read quote
3 likes
"In terms of why everything is different, each book is different than the one before because I'm so bored of what I just finished I want to work on something different. The next book becomes an antidote to what I did before."
Read quote
3 likes
"I'm just tired and bored with myself."
Read quote
3 likes
"If you are bored with your own photography you are really bored with what you are photographing, so pick a new subject about which you are knowledgeable and enthusiastic."
Read quote
3 likes
"I am hungry, feed me; I am bored, amuse me."
Read quote
3 likes
"I want to be bored. But I can't. But I really don't want to be this thing that I'm having to be instead of being bored."
Read quote
3 likes
"Needy and boring parents tend to have needy and bored children."
Read quote
3 likes
"Have you ever noticed how bored people are also boring?"
Read quote
3 likes
"If you've got a good book with you, you're never bored (or alone)."
Read quote
3 likes
"Stress is not the spice of life any more than arsenic is. And without it, you won't feel bored."
Read quote
3 likes
"We were young. We were bored. And the old electroshock therapy machine was just under the stairs in a box next to the Hoover."
Read quote
3 likes
"I'm not like J.K. Rowling, where I know there's going to be this number of seasons, and I know exactly what's going to happen. I would be so bored if that was the case. There would be no journey. There would be nothing to discover."
Read quote
3 likes
"I thought I had mono for a year...Turns out I was just really bored."
Read quote
3 likes