Bored To Death Quotes

• If I die prematurely at any rate I shall be saved from being bored to death by my own success.

  Samuel Butler

  Bored, My Own, Saved

  "Notebooks: Selections Edited by Geoffrey Keynes and Brian Hill".

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• There's a story everywhere. Being bored to death someplace is basically a funny proposition. What you have to watch out for is you don't write a boring story about a boring place.

  Tim Cahill

  Art, Writing, Bored

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• 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!

  Samuel Beckett

  Hands, Bored, Waiting

  Samuel Beckett (2012). “The Complete Dramatic Works of Samuel Beckett”, p.72, Faber & Faber

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• 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.

  Winston Churchill

  Class, Bored, Three

  Winston S. Churchill (2013). “Churchill By Himself”, p.1066, RosettaBooks

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• 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.

  Charles Dickens

  Bored, Bleak House

  "Fictional character: Lady Dedlock". "Bleak House" Episode #1.1, www.imdb.com. 2005.

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• I would rather die of passion than of boredom.

  Emile Zola

  Inspirational, Life, Positive

  Emile Zola “The Complete Rougon-Macquart Cycle (All 20 Unabridged Novels in one volume)”, e-artnow sro

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• I was bored to death and thinking more about the minibar and the after-show party than the performance.

  Volker Bertelmann

  Party, Thinking, Bored

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• It is possible to move through the drama of our lives without believing so earnestly in the character that we play.

  Pema Chodron

  Drama, Believe, Moving

  Pema Chodron (2002). “The Places That Scare You: A Guide to Fearlessness in Difficult Times”, p.25, Shambhala Publications

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• I come from Somalia. We start working young, and we understand that kind of life. I would be bored to death not doing anything creative.

  Iman Abdulmajid

  Bored, Creative, Would Be

  Source: www.harpersbazaar.com

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• I've always been intrigued by Stockholm Syndrome. Reminds me of my childhood.

  Jonathan Ames

  Childhood, Syndromes, Stockholm Syndrome

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• I did Bored To Death with Jason [Schwartzman] and Zach Galifianakis and those guys. I mean, how lucky can you be that you get to be the old guy? I get to be Robert Preston to them now. That's what I feel. My job is to pass on what Preston and other people gave to me, which was show up, take the work seriously, don't take yourself seriously, and have a good time and be of service. Be there to support.

  Richard Masur

  Jobs, Mean, People

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I used to be the youngest person on the set [of Bored To Death]. Now I'm very often the oldest person on the set. I feel lucky about that, to be honest. Lena [Dunham], by the way is a doll to me. So much fun to work with and really open.

  Richard Masur

  Fun, Bored, Dolls

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• The job has left me with a healthy disregard for what you might call Public Life. I have no desire now to go to receptions, to be seen at gatherings of the great and the good, to stand and be bored to death by men in grey suits.

  Michael Longley

  Jobs, Men, Bored

  Source: www.poetrymagazines.org.uk

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• I would rather die than be in the United States Senate. I would be bored to death. Could you imagine me, banging around that chamber with 99 other people, asking for a motion on the amendment in the subcommittee? Forget it...You'd watch me just walk out and walk right into the Potomac River and drown. That would be it.

  Chris Christie

  Leadership, Work, Reality

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• I just finished my homework fast, I was bored to death. There wasn't 500 channels so there was a thing for a librarian to teach a kid like me about reading. I started reading early and I read all the time, because I love it.

  Harvey Weinstein

  Reading, Kids, Bored

  "Movie Executive Harvey Weinstein". "The Tavis Smiley Show", www.pbs.org. April 28, 2011.

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• I've been watching 'Game of Thrones,' and I can't wait for 'Bored to Death' to come back, it's one of my faves.

  Michelle Forbes

  Games, Bored, Waiting

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• I'd be bored to death if I spent all my time with other businesspeople, bankers and lawyers.

  Eli Broad

  Bored, Bankers, Lawyer

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• I’m bored to death. Perhaps I should pillage one of my neighbors for my own amusement. It seems to work for Drowden.

  Kristin Cashore

  Bored, Amusement, Neighbor

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• I wouldn't feel satisfied being on set every day doing a romantic comedy - I'd be bored to death.

  Joaquin Phoenix

  Bored, Comedy, Satisfied

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• It is possible to move through the drama of our lives without believing so earnestly in the character that we play. That we take ourselves so seriously, that we are so absurdly important in our own minds, is a problem for us. We feel justified in being annoyed with everything. We feel justified in denigrating ourselves or in feeling that we are more clever than other people. Self-importance hurts us, limiting us to the narrow world of our likes and dislikes. We end up bored to death with ourselves and our world. We end up never satisfied.

  Pema Chodron

  Hurt, Clever, Drama

  Pema Chodron (2002). “The Places That Scare You: A Guide to Fearlessness in Difficult Times”, p.25, Shambhala Publications

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• Boredom has been used as a technique, it is a device. In Zen, boredom is used as a device: you are bored to death, and you are not allowed to escape. You are not to go outside, you are not to entertain yourself, you are not to do, you are not to talk, you are not to read novels and detective stories. No thrill. No possibility to escape anywhere.

  Rajneesh

  Boredom, Technique, Thrill

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• To be bored to death is a form of suicide.

  Frederick Buechner

  Suicide, Bored, Form

  Frederick Buechner (1988). “Whistling in the dark: an ABC theologized”, Harpercollins

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• I'm glad I haven't found my style yet. I'd be bored to death.

  Edgar Degas

  Bored, Style, Found

  "Degas: An Intimate Portrait (Technical Details)". Book by Ambroise Vollard (1927) translated by Randolph T. Weaver (p. 70), 1986.

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• And while you and the rest of your kind are battling together-year after year-for this special privilege of being 'bored to death,' the 'real girl' that you're asking about, the marvelous girl, the girl with the big, beautiful, unspoken thoughts in her head, the girl with the big, brave, undone deeds in her heart, the girl that stories are made of, the girl whom you call 'improbable'-is moping off alone in some dark, cold corner-or sitting forlornly partnerless against the bleak wall of the ballroom-or hiding shyly up in the dressing-room-waiting to be discovered!

  Eleanor Hallowell Abbott

  Beautiful, Girl, Wall

  Eleanor Hallowell Abbott (2012). “Little Eve Edgarton”, p.9, The Floating Press

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