Boredom Quotes - Page 30

• The Ancient Mariner seizes the guest at the wedding feast and will not let go until he has told all his story: the prototype of the bore.

  Mason Cooley

  Letting Go, Wedding, Guests

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• One eventually has enough even of oneself.

  Mason Cooley

  Enough, Oneself

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• Eagerness to please attracts bullies and bores.

  Mason Cooley

  Bullying, Please, Bores

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• Boredom makes me sleepy or restless.

  Mason Cooley

  Sleepy, Restless

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• Worrying is as futile as boredom, but harder work.

  Mason Cooley

  Work, Worry, Harder

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• Boredom is the only sure cure for neurosis.

  Mason Cooley

  Neurosis, Cures

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• Boredom turns to panic if my beloved leaves before the usual time.

  Mason Cooley

  Time, Usual, Routine

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• I am fairly tired--bored beyond endurance--by the world we live in, and its ideals, and am ready to say so, not violently, but kindly, as one rubs salt into the back of a flogged sailor as though one loved him.

  Henry Adams

  Tired, Endurance, World

  Henry Adams, Ernest Samuels (1992). “Henry Adams, Selected Letters”, p.276, Harvard University Press

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• At any age we must cherish illusions, consolatory or merely pleasant; in youth, they are omnipresent; in old age we must search for them, or even invent them. But with all that, boredom is their natural and inevitable accompaniment.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Age, Youth, Cherish

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• In a world where thrushes sing and willow trees are golden in the spring, boredom should have been included among the seven deadly sins.

  Elizabeth Goudge

  Spring, Should Have, Tree

  Elizabeth Goudge (2012). “The Rosemary Tree”, p.76, Hachette UK

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• There's something dangerous about the boredom of teenage girls.

  Megan Abbott

  Girl, Teenage, Dangerous

  "Dare Me". Book by Megan Abbott, 2012.

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• Banality is like boredom: bored people are boring people, people who think that things are banal are themselves banal. Interesting people can find something interesting in all things.

  Idries Shah

  Thinking, People, Interesting

  Idries Shah (1983). “Reflections”, p.121, Octagon Press Ltd

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• The boredom of married life inevitable destroys love, when love has preceded marriage.

  Stendhal

  Married, Inevitable, Married Life

  Stendhal (2016). “The Red and the Black: World Classics”, p.168, World Classic

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• And I, stepping from this skin Of old bandages, boredoms, old faces Step to you from the black car of Lethe, Pure as a baby.

  Sylvia Plath

  Baby, Car, Black

  Sylvia Plath (2010). “Ariel: The Restored Edition”, p.64, Faber & Faber

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• Living, just by itself - what a dirge that is! Life is a classroom and Boredom's the usher, there all the time to spy on you; whatever happens, you've got to look as if you were awfully busy all the time doing something that's terribly exciting - or he'll come along and nibble your brain.

  Louis-Ferdinand Celine

  Life, Brain, Spy

  "Journey to the End of the Night". Book by Louis-Ferdinand Celine, 1932.

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• The sightless Milton, with his hair Around his placid temples curled; And Shakespeare at his side,-a freight, If clay could think and mind were weight, For him who bore the world!

  William Wordsworth

  Thinking, Hair, Mind

  William Wordsworth (1837). “The Complete Poetical Works of William Wordsworth: Together with a Description of the Country of the Lakes in the North of England, Now First Published with His Works ...”, p.236

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• Fiddle-dee-dee. War, war, war. This war talk's spoiling all the fun at every party this spring. I get so bored I could scream. Besides, there isn't going to be any war. . . . If either of you boys says 'war' just once again, I'll go in the house and slam the door.

  Vivien Leigh

  Fun, Spring, War

  "Fictional character: Scarlett". "Gone with the Wind", www.imdb.com. 1939.

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• We are raising a generation that has a woefully small stock of ideas and interests and emotions. It must be amused at all costs but it has little skill in amusing itself. It pays some of its members to do what the majority can no longer do for themselves. It is this inner poverty that makes for the worst kind of boredom.

  Robert McCracken

  Kindness, Skills, Ideas

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• My biggest concern during a race is getting bored. The biggest thing I have to combat is falling asleep while going around and around.

  Mario Andretti

  Fall, Race, Combat

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• A bore is someone who persists in holding his own views after we have enlightened him with ours.

  Malcolm Forbes

  Views, Enlightened, Bores

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• I'm rather bored by the subject - meaning me. It's a sort of a yoke, but at times you know, a yoke is a kind of comfort. And it's always there.

  Laurence Olivier

  Kindness, Comfort, Yoke

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• The pilot of the Galilean lake; Two massy keys he bore, of metals twain (The golden opes, the iron shuts amain).

  John Milton

  Lakes, Keys, Two

  'Lycidas' (1638) l. 108

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• The leaf was darkish, and had prickles on it, But in another country, as he said, Bore a bright golden flow'r, but not in this soil; Unknown, and like esteem'd, and the dull swain Treads on it daily with his clouted shoon.

  John Milton

  Country, Dull, Golden

  John Milton, Merritt Yerkes Hughes (1957). “Complete Poems and Major Prose”, p.104, Hackett Publishing

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• Boredom, not the will, is the mother of change. Necessity is the father.

  Mason Cooley

  Change, Mother, Father

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• Everyone will recognize that each sound carries with it a tangle of sensations, already well-known and exhausted, which predispose the listener to boredom, in spite of the efforts of all musical innovators.

  Luigi Russolo

  Effort, Musical, Sound

  Luigi Russolo (1986). “The art of noises”, Pendragon Pr

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