Bored Quotes - Page 17

One must work, if not from inclination, at least out of despair — since it proves, on close examination, that work is less boring than amusing oneself.

You can't do a machine without knowing something about how it's going to work. As for the romantics, the costumes bored me and I don't enjoy doing period clothes.

Only those who want everything done for them are bored.

Patience and boredom are closely related. Boredom, a certain kind of boredom, is really impatience. You don't like the way things are, they aren't interesting enough for you, so you deccide- and boredom is a decision-that you are bored.

I got quite bored, serving in the bar. Since I was there, the customers wouldn't talk about women, and with half their subject matter denied them, it was: horses, silence; horses, silence.

I'm bored with knitting. I've taken up arson.

They had not yet attained the stupefying boredom of omnipotence; their experiments did not always succeed.

Do you realise that people die of boredom in London suburbs? It's the second biggest cause of death amongs the English in general. Sheer boredom...

The worst pair of opposites is boredom and terror. Sometimes your life is a pendulum swing from one to the other.

Much is forgiven anyone who relieves the desperate boredom of the working press.

The happy people are those who are producing something; the bored people are those who are consuming much and producing nothing.

Boredom is the deadliest poison.

The most dangerous thing is a bored teenager. They have the stigma of being Indigenous, Aboriginal, and all the trappings that come with it. The connection does come a lot more from those kids, desert or not. They're stepping out into the world.

It is the unknown that excites the ardor of scholars, who, in the known alone, would shrivel up with boredom.

To die for the sake of dying - I prefer to die of passion than to die of boredom!

I love travel because you may be uncomfortable, hungry, hot and sweaty, cold and shivering…but damn it, you will never be bored.

A witch who is bored might do ANYTHING. People said things like 'we had to make our own amusements in those days' as if this signified some kind of moral worth, and perhaps it did, but the last thing you wanted a witch to do was get bored and start making her own amusements, because witches sometimes had famously erratic ideas about what was amusing.

In many cases when a reader puts a story aside because it 'got boring,' the boredom arose because the writer grew enchanted with his powers of description and lost sight of his priority, which is to keep the ball rolling.

Knitting is a boon for those of us who are easily bored. I take my knitting everywhere to take the edge off of moments that would otherwise drive me stark raving mad.

If you get bored with the person you married for love, there's something wrong with you - not with that person.

Boredom is the conviction that you can't change ... the shriek of unused capacities.

Neurotic identity crises come when our defense mechanisms have been too successful and we're encapsulated in the fortress we have constructed with nothing to refresh us in our solitary confinement. So we play the old movies with their stale fears and their unrealistic hopes until we become bored enough to risk disarmament and engagement.

I am utterly bored by celebrity interviews. Most celebrities are devoid of interest.

Boredom and stupidity and patriotism, especially when combined, are three of the greatest evils of the world we live in.

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.