Bored Quotes - Page 12

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.

My marriage didn't make me sad, but it didn't make me happy either. My husband and I hardly spoke to each other. This wasn't because we were angry. We had nothing to say. I was dying of boredom.

It is only a step from boredom to disillusionment, which leads naturally to self-pity, which in turn ends in chaos.

I come from Somalia. We start working young, and we understand that kind of life. I would be bored to death not doing anything creative.

The conventional parabola--sentiment, the touch of the hand, the kiss, the passionate kiss, the feel of the body, the climax in the bed, then more bed, then less bed, then the boredom, the tears and the final bitterness--was to him shameful and hypocritical.

If the best company is that which we leave feeling most satisfied with ourselves, it follows that it is the company we leave most bored.

A subject for a great poet would be God's boredom after the seventh day of creation.

Only the most acute and active animals are capable of boredom.

monotony is not to be worshipped as a virtue; nor the marriage bed treated as a coffin for security rather than a couch from which to rise refreshed.

I never get bored. There isn't enough time in the day for me.

The first effect of adjusting to other people is that one becomes boring.

Probably, if you are successful in this world you are stressed, and if you are a failure, you are bored!

"I am bored" generally means "I am boring."

I never did pal around with actresses. Their talk usually bored me to tears.

The truth is that everyone is bored, and devotes himself to cultivating habits.

How some of the writers I come across get through their books without dying of boredom is beyond me.

Always carry a book on a date so that when you get bored you can slip into the Ladies for a read.

The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore.

We know what boredom is: it is a dull Impatience or a fierce velleity, A champing wish, stalled by our lassitude, To make or do. In the strict sense, of course, We invent nothing, merely bearing witness To what each morning brings again to light

Television is not the truth! Television is a goddamned amusement park. Television is a circus, a carnival, a travelling troupe of acrobats and story-tellers, singers and dancers, jugglers, sideshow freaks, lion-tamers and football players. We're in the boredom-killing business!

We're no longer bored - in fact we're petrified of being alone with ourselves getting bored. Yet boredom is the foundation for creativity - an asset slowly disappearing from our world.

One must, in one's life, make a choice between boredom and suffering.

It’s great that in life you do something that you want to do because you like doing it and you’re not bored. I’m not bored at all. I’m even interested in lots of things, more so today than before.

Some of the freckles I once loved are now closer to liver spots. But it’s still the eyes we look at, isn’t it? That’s where we found the other person, and find them still.

I am never bored; to be bored is an insult to one's self.