Bored Quotes - Page 19

• And it isn't that I'm so unhappy I don't want to live anymore. That's not what it feels like. It feels more like I'm tired and bored and the party's gone on too long and I want to go home. I feel flat and there doesn't seem to be anything to look forward to, so I'd rather call it a day.

  Nick Hornby

  Party, Home, Tired

  Nick Hornby (1999). “About a Boy”, p.65, Penguin

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• My life is very monotonous," the fox said. "I hunt chickens; men hunt me. All the chickens are just alike, and all the men are just alike. And, in consequence, I am a little bored.

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  Men, Wheat Fields, Monotonous Life

  Antoine De Saint-Exupery (2015). “The Little Prince: "Illustrated Edition"”, p.86, eKitap Projesi

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• We are almost always bored by just those whom we must not find boring.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Boring

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• Good job on Percy Jackson I read all of them 8 times and have listened 42 times and still not bored Thanks.

  Rick Riordan

  Jobs, Thanks, Good Job

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• The days hardened with cold and boredom like last year's loaves of bread. One began to cut them with blunt knives without appetite, with a lazy indifference.

  Bruno Schulz

  Cutting, Years, Knives

  Bruno Schulz, Jonathan Safran Foer, David Goldfarb (2008). “The street of crocodiles and other stories”, Penguin Classics

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• Children, bored and opinionated, are scholars of the most dogmatic stripe.

  Nick Harkaway

  Children, Stripes, Scholar

  Nick Harkaway (2008). “The Gone-Away World”, p.38, Random House

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• Oh, how desperately bored, in spite of their grim determination to have a Good Time, the majority of pleasure-seekers really are!

  Aldous Huxley

  Determination, Majority, Good Times

  Aldous Huxley (2000). “Complete Essays: 1926-1929”, Ivan R Dee

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• Tonight sucks. And look at me. Look at - look at stupid Buffy. Too dumb for college, and-and-and freak Buffy, too strong for construction work. And-and my job at the magic shop? I was bored to tears even before the hour that wouldn't end. And the only person that I can even stand to be around is a... neutered vampire who cheats at kitten poker.

  Joss Whedon

  Strong, Jobs, Stupid

  "Buffy the Vampire Slayer (Life Serial)". TV Series, www.imdb.com. 1997–2003.

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• Monotony has nothing to do with a place; monotony, either in its sensation or its infliction, is simply the quality of a person. There are no dreary sights; there are only dreary sight seers.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Sight, Quality, Monotony

  "Alarms and Discursions". Chapter: "A Romance of the Marshes". Book by Gilbert K. Chesterton, 1910.

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• People don't like being around despair. Our tolerance for the truly hopeless, for those who are irredeemably broken by life is strictly limited. The sob stories we like are the ones that end before we're bored.

  Salman Rushdie

  People, Broken, Tolerance

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• Do you remember the time we met? The wind blew the snow about on the outside, the train moved, stopped, and then moved some more. It took us five hours to reach Tokyo, but I wasn't bored one bit. I didn't really get to hear so much about Nana. But I knew I would have loved... To hear what Nana had to say about herself. - Nana Komatsu

  Ai Yazawa

  Wind, Snow, Tokyo

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• I got bored," he says. "Besides, you know what's creepier than walking around your dead brothers' apartment? Sitting alone in a hearse in front of his apartment.

  Holly Black

  Brother, Sitting, Apartment

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• There are good sailors. Well, some good sailors. In a way they are ideal as husbands. They drop in every six months for a wild celebration, then they drop out again before one gets bored with their company or annoyed with by their habits.

  Kerry Greenwood

  Husband, Annoyed, Six Months

  Kerry Greenwood (2004). “Queen of the Flowers”, p.10, Allen & Unwin

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• At this slower pace the journey took a couple of days, and I fought off a few minor threats along the way --griffins, carnivorous plants, giant serpents, hostile centaurs, that sort of thing, purely routine --and I was beginning to get bored when at last the dusky towers of Castle Roogna hove into view.

  Piers Anthony

  Couple, Journey, Views

  Piers Anthony (1985). “Crewel lye: a caustic yarn”, Del Rey

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• A witch who is bored might do ANYTHING. People said things like 'we had to make our own amusements in those days' as if this signified some kind of moral worth, and perhaps it did, but the last thing you wanted a witch to do was get bored and start making her own amusements, because witches sometimes had famously erratic ideas about what was amusing.

  Terry Pratchett

  Ideas, People, Erratic

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• A bit of theory as we settle down for lunch: the waiter's treatment of Kitty is actually a kind of sandwich, with the bottom bread being the bored and slightly effete way he normally acts with customers, the middle being the crazed and abnormal way he feels around this famous nineteen-year-old girl, and the top bread being his attempt to contain and conceal this alien middle layer with some mode of behavior that at least approximates the bottom layer of boredom and effeteness that is his norm.

  Jennifer Egan

  Girl, Years, Lunch

  Jennifer Egan (2010). “A Visit from the Goon Squad”, p.128, Anchor

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• Anyone who does not see the vanity of the world is very vain himself. So who does not see it, apart from young people whose lives are all noise, diversions, and thoughts for the future? But take away their diversion and you will see them bored to extinction. Then they feel their nullity without recognizing it, for nothing could be more wretched than to be intolerably depressed as soon as one is reduced to introspection with no means of diversion.

  Blaise Pascal

  Mean, Vanity, People

  Blaise Pascal (2008). “Human Happiness”, Penguin Group USA

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• As many authors have said, if the writer is not surprised by events, then chances are that the reader will not be either, and grow bored.

  Paul Di Filippo

  Events, Chance, Said

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• And yes, to answer you seriously, I am beginning to be... well, not bored, but tempted; afraid, but tempted. When you've been in pain for a long time, when you wake up every morning with a rising sense of hysteria, then boredom is what you want, marathon sleeps, a silence in yourself.

  Truman Capote

  Morning, Pain, Sleep

  Truman Capote (2012). “Answered Prayes”, p.74, Vintage

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• Kyo Sohma: angrily pointing at Yuki Just like I'll beat you one of these days Yuki: looking bored Wait wait I think I've heard this one before

  Natsuki Takaya

  Thinking, Waiting, Fruits Basket

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• Kyo Sohma: One of these days I'll make you say you're sorry Yuki Sohma: looking bored I'm sorry. Kyo Sohma: Dammit That's not what I meant Don't you have any shame Yuki Sohma: still looking annoyed Yes I'm ashamed to be seen with you shouting in public. Kyo Sohma: Oh that's it We're taking this outside Yuki Sohma: still looking annoyed We ARE outside you stupid cat.

  Natsuki Takaya

  Sorry, Stupid, Cat

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• Working inspires inspiration. Keep working. If you succeed, keep working. If you fail, keep working. If you are interested, keep working. If you are bored, keep working.

  Michael Crichton

  Inspiration, Inspire, Succeed

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• The person who works and is never bored is never old. Work and interest in worthwhile things are the best remedy for age.

  Pablo Casals

  Worthwhile Things, Practice, Age

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• I'm grateful to be working. The most exciting thing for me is that I never get bored - I've done comedy, drama, musical theatre and now Shakespeare.

  Sheridan Smith

  Drama, Grateful, Musical

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• Where I get bored is when I show up for a shoot and they want me to wear a feather boa. Too obvious a thing for a poof on the telly to do.

  Graham Norton

  Want, Obvious, Shows

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