Bored Quotes - Page 24

Art makes you reinvent the wheel with regularity. If you don't, art gets bored and slips away.

I've always been bored with just making money. I've wanted to do things; I wanted to build things, to get something going. What money meant to me was that I was able to get money to do that for me.

Whatever movies I sign, they have to get me out of my comfort zone. Otherwise, I would get bored very easily.

God was bored by him.

One sometimes says: 'He killed himself because he was bored with life.' One ought rather to say: 'He killed himself because he was bored by lack of life.'

There is something more terrible than a hell of suffering--a hell of boredom.

People will go into a relationship, if it's a brand new relationship, it's so exciting because it's something brand new, it's variety, it's different. And you're so excited by the feelings. And what most people try to do because they don't want to lose that, they try to control it to make it certain. And if they make it so certain then you become bored in the relationship. It's a delicate balance.

Anything I have ever learned of any consequence, I have learned from Black people. I have never been bored by any Black person, ever.

To the elitist hedonist, life is the avoidance of boredom and routine.

Boredom comes not from reality but from people who are only half alive.

I might revisit - I like the idea of doing something else with [Hunt for the Wilderpeople characters]. But also I get bored of doing the same thing again. I just get bored.

That was the beginning of modern acting for me. You don't have to tell a camera everything. It gets bored if you do and wants to look elsewhere.

I begin with the principle that all men are bores. Surely no one will prove himself so great a bore as to contradict me in this.

I've always been very keen on Pascal, and what I'm most keen on in Pascal is his emphasis upon human wretchedness. He has a phrase which goes something like 'Anxiety, boredom and inconstancy, that is the human condition' and I've always been very partial to that.

Rules equal boredom, and I don't like that.

I know I'll keep writing poems. That's the constant. I don't know about novels. They're hard. It takes so much concentrated effort. When I'm writing a novel it's pretty much all I can do. I get bored. It takes months. Movies do the same thing. It's all-encompassing. It feels like I'm going to end up writing poems, short stories and screenplays.

The reason I started writing movies was because I kept getting parts that I just kind of stepped into. I didn't have to do a lot of work and I ended up getting sort of bored.

Surely a long life must be somewhat tedious, since we are forced to call in so many trifling things to help rid us of our time, which will never return.

You never get bored ... when you have the probabilities of your next meal to speculate on, pro and con.

I don't get easily bored. I'm not that kind of person.

There's nothing like impending death to rouse you from existential boredom.

Boredom is the inner conflict we suffer when we lose desire, when we lack a lacking.

Fact is, perfection is boring.

Are you apathetic toward the saccharine goodness evangelized by sentimental, superstitious fanatics, but equally bored by the intellectuals who worship at the empty-headed shrine of scientific materialism?

This drive to always want more is based on the misconceptions that having more will make me more happy, more important, and more secure, but all three ideas are untrue. Possessions only provide temporary happiness. Because things do not change, we eventually become bored with them and then want newer, bigger, better versions.