Bored Quotes

• If you're bored with life - you don't get up every morning with a burning desire to do things - you don't have enough goals.

  Lou Holtz

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• Cherish forever what makes you unique, 'cuz you're really a yawn if it goes.

  Bette Midler

  Inspirational, Strong Women, Acceptance

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• There's no excuse to be bored. Sad, yes. Angry, yes. Depressed, yes. Crazy, yes. But there's no excuse for boredom, ever.

  Viggo Mortensen

  Inspirational, Sad, Depression

  "Finding Viggo" by Alex Kuczynski, Vanity Fair, January 1, 2004.

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

  Dorothy Parker

  Funny, Life, Wisdom

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• She refused to be bored chiefly because she wasn't boring.

  Zelda Fitzgerald

  Boredom, Boring, Bores

  Zelda Fitzgerald (2013). “The Collected Writings of Zelda Fitzgerald”, p.457, Simon and Schuster

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• I’m bored’ is a useless thing to say. I mean, you live in a great, big, vast world that you’ve seen none percent of. Even the inside of your own mind is endless; it goes on forever, inwardly, do you understand? The fact that you’re alive is amazing, so you don’t get to say ‘I’m bored.

  Louis C. K.

  Inspirational, Funny, Life

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• Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours.

  Dale Carnegie

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• Punctuality is the virtue of the bored.

  Evelyn Waugh

  Work, Blessing, Bores You

  Michael Davie (ed.) Diaries of Evelyn Waugh (1976) "Irregular Notes 1960-65," 26 Mar. 1962

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• I'm bored' is a useless thing to say. You live in a great, big, vast world that you've seen none percent of.

  Louis C. K.

  Travel, Bores You, Useless Things

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• Some men just want to watch the world burn

  Michael Caine

  Crush, Depressing, Dark

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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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• 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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• 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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• I learned to write fiction the way I learned to read fiction - by skipping the parts that bored me.

  Jonathan Lethem

  Writing, Fiction, Way

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  All God does is watch us and kill us when we get boring. We must never, ever be boring.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Life, Optimistic, Doe

  Chuck Palahniuk (2011). “Invisible Monsters: A Novel”, p.264, W. W. Norton & Company

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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