Bored Quotes - Page 6

• Ever to confess you're bored
  means you have no
  Inner Resources.

  John Berryman

  Mean, Resources

  77 Dream Songs (1964) no. 14

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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, Three, May

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

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• Boredom is not an end-product, is comparatively rather an early stage in life and art. You've got to go by or past or through boredom, as through a filter, before the clear product emerges.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Art, Past, Bores You

  F. Scott Fitzgerald (2009). “The Crack-Up”, p.157, New Directions Publishing

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• A bore is a man who, when you ask him how he is, tells you.

  Bert Leston Taylor

  Men, Bores You, Boredom

  The So-Called Human Race (1922) p. 163

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• Innocent pleasures in moderation can provide relaxation for the body and mind and can foster family and other relationships. But pleasure, per se, offers no deep, lasting satisfaction or sense of fulfillment. The pleasure-centered person, too soon bored with each succeeding level of "fun," constantly cries for more and more. So the next new pleasure has to be bigger and better, more exciting, with a bigger "high." A person in this state becomes almost entirely narcissistic, interpreting all of life in terms of the pleasure it provides to the self here and now.

  Stephen Covey

  Fun, Pursuit Of Happiness, Self

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• When I get bored, I get into trouble.

  Angie Harmon

  Trouble

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• I have never been bored an hour in my life. I get up every morning wondering what new strange glamorous thing is going to happen and it happens at fairly regular intervals.

  William Allen White

  Morning, Strange, Wonder

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• Rock became an incredible commercial success, people just became bored with serious music, and it was forgotten.

  Henry Flynt

  Success, Congratulations, Artist

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• Bored people, unless they sleep a lot, are cruel.

  Renata Adler

  Book, Reading, Sleep

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• The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore.

  Samuel Butler

  Men, Bores You, Boredom

  Samuel Butler (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of Samuel Butler (Illustrated)”, p.935, Delphi Classics

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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, Watches

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• Nobody is bored when he is trying to make something that is beautiful or to discover something that is true.

  William Ralph Inge

  Beauty, Beautiful, Truth

  William Ralph Inge (1939). “Our present discontents”

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• Goodbye. I'm leaving because I'm bored.

  George Saunders

  Goodbye, Leaving

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• Goodbye. I am leaving because I am bored.

  George Saunders

  Goodbye, Crazy, Mad

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• Dear world, I am leaving because I am bored.

  George Sanders

  Leaving, World, Dear

  "Oscars: The Sad Stories of 9 Acting Nominees Who Committed Suicide" by Scott Feinberg, www.hollywoodreporter.com. February 26, 2014.

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

  Samuel Butler

  My Own, Saved, Dies

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

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• The truth is that everyone is bored, and devotes himself to cultivating habits.

  Albert Camus

  Life, Boredom, Existential

  ALBERT CAMUS (1971). “NOBEL PRIZE LIBRARY”

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• There is no one who has no leisure time at all. The office is not a permanent sanctuary, and Sundays are an institution. Thus, in principle, during those beautiful hours of free time everyone would have the opportunity to rouse himself into real boredom. But although one wants to do nothing, things are done to one: the world makes sure that one does not find oneself. And even if one perhaps isn't interested in it, the world itself is much too interested for one to find the peace and quiet necessary to be as thoroughly bored with the world as it ultimately deserves.

  Siegfried Kracauer

  Beautiful, Real, Sunday

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• Patience and boredom are closely related. Boredom, a certain kind of boredom, is really impatience. You don't like the way things are, they aren't interesting enough for you, so you deccide- and boredom is a decision-that you are bored.

  Bertrand Russell

  Interesting, Boredom, Decision

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• It's hard having kids because it's boring... It's just being with them on the floor while they be children. They read Clifford the Big Red Dog to you at a rate of 50 minutes a page, and you have to sit there and be horribly proud and bored at the same time.

  Louis C. K.

  Dog, Children, Kids

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• The idea of lying on a beach as my main thing just sounds like the worst. It sounds horrible to me. I would go bonkers. I would have to be on serious drugs. I'd be super-duper bored. I like high intensity.

  Elon Musk

  Inspirational, Motivational, Beach

  "Elon Musk Says Crack Helps Him Survive on No Sleep" by Kim Lachance Shandrow, www.foxnews.com. July 18, 2016.

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• The problem when someone feels burned out, bored, unchallenged, or stifled by their work is not the job itself but rather the environment and playground rules given to them to do the job at hand.

  Tony Hsieh

  Motivational, Jobs, Hands

  Tony Hsieh (2010). “Delivering Happiness: A Path to Profits, Passion, and Purpose”, p.116, Hachette UK

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• The Who always play 'I Can't Explain'; and we'll always play 'Wonderwall'. People ask us if we get bored of it. You can't get bored of 15,000 people shouting for 'Wonderwall'. That's better than drugs. You get a hard-on when you hear that.

  Noel Gallagher

  Play, People, Drug

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• Get bored with your past, it's over!

  Caroline Myss

  Past, Your Past, Our Past

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• How is it possible that a being with such sensitive jewels as the eyes, such enchanted musical instruments as the ears, and such a fabulous arabesque of nerves as the brain can experience itself as anything less than a god?  And, when you consider that this incalculably subtle organism is inseparable from the still more marvelous patterns of its environment - from the minutest electrical designs to the whole company of the galaxies - how is it conceivable that this incarnation of all eternity can be bored with being?

  Alan Watts

  Motivational, Eye, Jewels

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