Boredom Quotes - Page 10

• For I have neither wit, nor words, nor worth, Action, nor utterance, nor the power of speech, To stir men's blood: I only speak right on; I tell you that which you yourselves do know.

  William Shakespeare

  Men, Blood, Utterance

  'Julius Caesar' (1599) act 3, sc. 2, l. [225]

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• These days, when people are alone, or feel a moment of boredom, they tend to reach for a device. In a movie theater, at a stop sign, at the checkout line at a supermarket and, yes, at a memorial service, reaching for a device becomes so natural that we start to forget that there is a reason, a good reason, to sit still with our thoughts: It does honor to what we are thinking about. It does honor to ourselves.

  Sherry Turkle

  Thinking, People, Memorial

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• Down time is where we become ourselves... a hiatus that passes for boredom but is really the quiet moving of the wheels inside that fuel creativity.

  Anna Quindlen

  Moving, Creativity, Fuel

  Anna Quindlen (2004). “Loud and Clear”, p.25, Random House

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• The great thing is the thing of being able to see things through many points of view. That's enlarging. I mean, it saves you from ultimately from the boredom of having one point of view, like being locked in a room with nothing but your own point of view, your own references.

  Jerry Garcia

  Mean, Views, Able

  Source: medium.com

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• I think the fear of being seen as childish or crazy severely limits our enjoyment of the world around us, thus inducing a state of boredom that in turn gives rise to much of the stupidity and meanness that oftem seem to epitomize the human condtion. In fact, these ills merely signify that the dues we pay for adult respectability are far too high, and bring some 'benefits' of questionable value.

  D. Patrick Miller

  Fear, Crazy, Thinking

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• Boredom is a sign of satisfied ignorance, blunted apprehension, crass sympathies, dull understanding, feeble powers of attention, and irreclaimable weakness of character.

  James Bridie

  Ignorance, Character, Understanding

  James Bridie, Association for Scottish Literary Studies (2007). “The devil to stage: five plays”, Association for Scottish Literary Studies (ASLS)

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• There's something about trying to know when you really need to protect yourself, or else you're not going to get anything done, and sometimes to be really uncomfortable or agitated or annoyed or bored. Boredom is so important.

  Regina Spektor

  Annoyed, Important, Trying

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Any country where I am not bored is a country that teaches me nothing.

  Albert Camus

  Country, Travel, Teach

  Albert Camus (2012). “Lyrical and Critical Essays”, p.43, Vintage

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• They were connoisseurs of boredom. They savoured the various bouquets of the subtly differentiated boredoms which rose from the long, wasted hours at the dead end of night.

  Angela Carter

  Night, Long, Rose

  Angela Carter (1997). “Burning your boats: the collected short stories”, Penguin Group USA

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• Neutrality and boredom are the weapons of the state.

  Molly Crabapple

  Neutrality, Weapons, States

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Sometimes many publishers prefer that you write the same book every time, but I have a low boredom threshold so that isn't going to happen.

  Dean Koontz

  Book, Writing, Sometimes

  "The Rumpus Interview With Dean Koontz". Interview with Ben Pfeiffer, therumpus.net. December 21, 2015.

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• Filming is like a long air journey: there's so much hanging around and boredom that they keep giving you food.

  John Cleese

  Journey, Air, Long

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• They bore within their breasts the grief That fame can never heal- That deep, unutterable woe Which none save exiles feel.

  William Edmondstoune Aytoun

  Grief, Woe, Fame

  1848 Lays of the Scottish Cavaliers and other Poems,'The Island of the Scots', stanza12.

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• If you love music and it requires hours of practice that can be boring, you can survive the boredom, you're not going to love it but you can survive the boredom because you're connected to something that excites you.

  Robert Greene

  Practice, Music Love, Boring

  Source: dilanka.cc

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• There's physical adversity, that if you are someone that likes exercise like I do, I exercise everyday. When you exercise, there's pain involved and so you're putting yourself through adversity in that situation. It's never totally pleasurable and there are moments where it's kind of boring or painful and you know that in doing that, you're making your mind and body tougher and more resilient. So must be able to deal with the boredom that happens in life.

  Robert Greene

  Pain, Adversity, Exercise

  Source: dilanka.cc

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• One source of frustration in the workplace is the frequent mismatch between what people must do and what people can do. When what they must do exceeds their capabilities, the result is anxiety. When what they must do falls short of their capabilities, the result is boredom. But when the match is just right, the results can be glorious. This is the essence of flow.

  Daniel H. Pink

  Fall, Frustration, Essence

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• I suppose kids probably know less boredom these days - or at least a different kind of boredom.

  Charlie Brooker

  Kids, Different, Kind

  "The Man Behind Netflix’s “Black Mirror” Is Maybe a Little Too Good at Predicting the Future". Interview with Michael Mechanic, www.motherjones.com. October 14, 2016.

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• Her butler opened it for her. His name was Boredom. She said, 'Boredom, fetch me a plaything.' He said 'Very good ma'am,' and putting on his white gloves so that fingerprints would not show he tapped at my heart and I thought he said his name was Love.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Heart, Names, White

  Jeanette Winterson (2013). “Written On The Body”, p.15, Random House

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• Life is as tedious as twice-told tale, vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man.

  William Shakespeare

  Funny, Life, Men

  'King John' (1591-8) act 3, sc. 4, l. 108

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• This Marxian sentence, repeated to the point of boredom, is misinterpreted. In reality [Karl] Marx was a "religious" man.

  Erich Fromm

  Religious, Reality, Men

  Source: www.scribd.com

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• Punk was a protest against work and against boredom. It was a sign of life, a rant, a scream, a rejection of bourgeois morals. But have things improved since then? Arguably, they've got worse.

  Tom Hodgkinson

  Rejection, Moral, Scream

  "Idle thoughts" by Tom Hodgkinson, www.theguardian.com. June 23, 2006.

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• No society ever seems to have succumbed to boredom. Man has developed an obvious capacity for surviving the pompous reiteration of the commonplace.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Men, Capacity, Obvious

  John Kenneth Galbraith (1998). “The Affluent Society”, p.16, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• If you want to live in 'white world,' if you want to experience the stultifying boredom and penetrating ennui that homogeneity can bring, you can go to Canada any day of the year. It's an entire country named Doug.

  Greg Proops

  Country, Years, White

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• I don't want to do the same thing over and over again.

  Dylan Moran

  Trying Different Things, Bores You, Insanity

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Books - the best antidote against the marsh-gas of boredom and vacuity

  George Steiner

  Book, Reading, Marshes

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