Bored Quotes - Page 15

In other people's company I felt I was dull, gloomy, unwelcome, at once bored and boring.

No, I slept as I always do when I am bored and have not the courage to amuse myself, or when I am hungry and have not the desire to eat.--The Count of Monte Cristo

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

If you’re alive, you can’t be bored in San Francisco. If you’re not alive, San Francisco will bring you to life.

The concept of boredom entails an inability to use up present moments in a personally fulfilling way.

Boredom is the dream bird that hatches the egg of experience. A rustling in the leaves drives him away.

I didn't leave physics because of boredom. I left it because other issues compelled me in a bigger way. And I always say to myself, "When I'm 60, I'd like to go back to what I interrupted."

Somehow don't be bored, but if you must, use it in action. Use its destructive potential.

Painting bores me like everything else. Unfortunately, painting is one of the activities - it is bound up in the series of activities - that seems to change almost nothing in life, the same habits are always recurring.

If I planned everything out in advance, I'd expire of boredom.

Violence is spiritual junk food, and boredom is spiritual anorexia.

Boredom is not in the world, but in the way we see the world.

I'm actually doing what I want with my life. I do sometime think I could just shut up and rest on my laurels and say: you know what guys, I'll operate out of the pocket you put me in.... but no way! No way I'm gonna do that! I'd just get bored stiff the first minute.

I was in Rome this time for about three or four months, and I feel like, by the time I left, every single person in Rome had seen me at least 10 times riding my bicycle. When I first got there, it seemed like people were happy to see me and would say hello. And by the end, they were kind of bored of seeing me. And it was like, "Ugh, there he goes again".

Love fed fat soon turns to boredom.

You don't have to be tired and bored. Get interested in something. Get absolutely enthralled in something. Throw yourself into it with abandon.

People say that jealousy is the greatest enemy of love. They’re wrong. The greatest enemy of love is boredom.

Boredom is a mask frustration wears.

Grasp your opportunities, no matter how poor your health; nothing is worse for your health than boredom.

The world is rather shot to pieces [end of World War II - 1945], but the spectators climb out of their caves and pretend to have again become normal and customary humans who ask each other's pardon instead of eating one another or sucking each other's blood. The entertaining folly of war evaporates, distinguished boredom sits down again on the dignified old overstuffed chairs.. .May I report about myself that I have had a truly grotesque time, brim-full with work, Nazi persecutions, bombs, hunger, and again and again work - in spite of everything [a. o. using his bed sheets as canvas for the new paintings].

He was not only a bore; he bored for England.

The only other person I have fallen in love with that way is Jesus, and I hope that goes more smoothly. I hope I remember, when I'm bored with Him, and antsy, and sick of brushing my teeth next to the same god every morning, I hope I remember not to leave Him. I am not so worried that He will leave me. The Bible, after all, is full of stories about God sticking with His Bride, no matter how stiff-necked and prideful and unfaithful she may be.

A philistine is habitually bored and looks for things that won't bore him. An artist finds things boring, but is never bored.

Ironically, often the thing that keeps me from experiencing joy is my preoccupation with self. The very selfishness that keeps me from pouring myself out for the joy of others also keeps me from noticing and delighting in the myriad small gifts God offers each day. This is why Walker Percy describes boredom as "the self stuffed with the self."

I was thinking too fast. It seems like a person has the tendency to get bored, because he always wants to try to do all these accomplishments.