Explore Quotes on Boredom

Boredom is not black licorice, Snicket," she said. "There's no reason to share it with me.

I know when I'm working I seldom get into trouble. My educated guess is that boredom has caused most of the problems with Hollywood celebrities.

I can excuse everything but boredom. Boring people don't have to stay that way.

Emptiness and boredom: what a complete understatement. What I felt was complete desolation. Desolation, despair and boredom.

There are 6 reasons that a person does anything: Love, faith, greed, boredom, fear... revenge.

Conclusion 1: Boredom= Flared tempers= hard words

In the years since, I've discovered there's a lot to be said for boredom.

Solitude is used to teach us how to live with other people. Rage is used to show us the infinite value of peace. Boredom is used to underline the importance of adventure & spontaneity. Silence is used to teach us to use words responsibly. Tiredness is used so that we can understand the value of waking up. Illness is used to underline the blessing of good health. Fire is used to teach us about water. Earth is used so that we can understand the value of air. Death is used to show us the importance of life.

While my insides may be rotten, I still like a good reason to kill someone. It has to be either business, personal, or out of sheer boredom.

Hard work never killed a man. Men die of boredom, psychological conflict, and disease. They do not die of hard work.

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.

When you pay attention to boredom it gets unbelievably interesting.

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

Of course, true love is exceptional - two or three times a century, more or less. The rest of the time there is vanity or boredom.

Life swings like a pendulum backward and forward between pain and boredom.

I did not love you out or boredom or loneliness or caprice. I loved you because the desire for you was stronger than any happiness.

He found himself in habiting the vast, empty plateau where most people live, between boredom and contentment.

Jonathan Seagull discovered that boredom and fear and anger are the reasons that a gull's life is so short, and with those gone from his thought, he lived a long fine life indeed.

Give me boredom. At least I know where I'm going to eat and sleep tonight.

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.

You've eased my boredom for quite a while, haven't you? -Ryuk