Bored Quotes - Page 28

I love information. I can never get enough. I get bored easily.

Boredom is the thing that regularly arrives between excitements and episodes of meaning: it is as natural as the tides, and in it an artist can drown.

I don't think anyone wants to do the same thing over and over again.

Boredom dismantles the mind, renders it superficial, out at the seams, saps it from within and dislocates it.

I like being busy and juggling a lot of things at the same time. I get bored easily, so I need to do a lot.

The only boring people I know are bored people.

One of the deep fundamentals of poetry is the recurrence of sounds, syllables, words, phrases, lines, and stanzas. Repetition can be one of the most intoxicating features of poetry. It creates expectations, which can be fulfilled or frustrated. It can create a sense of boredom and complacency, but it can also incite enchantment and inspire bliss.

She had been bored all afternoon by Percy Gryce... but she could not ignore him on the morrow, she must follow up her success, must submit to more boredom, must be ready with fresh compliances and adaptibilities, and all on the bare chance that he might ultimately decide to do her the honour of boring her for life.

I'm glad I haven't found my style yet. I'd be bored to death.

Over-excitement and boredom are states of mind which I equally shun.

My drive to put myself on the line comes from boredom. From that feeling when you go to bed and think, 'What did I do today?' It doesn't have to be something monumental, just a feeling that you really tried to look at something, or look into something.

But what those critics don't know is that these same assets that excite me in the chase often, once they are acquired, leave me bored.

If I drive myself to the brink of my ability, then I don't get stale or bored.

I'm not bored; I'm not a guy who has nothing to do.

Boredom is a pleasing antidote for fear

The English masses are lovable: they are kind, decent, tolerant, practical and not stupid. The tragedy is that they are too many of them, and that they are aimless, having outgrown the servile functions for which they were encouraged to multiply. One day these huge crowds will have to seize power because there will be nothing else for them to do, and yet they neither demand power nor are ready to make use of it; they will learn only to be bored in a new way.

The combination to be on guard for is young and bored, or young and resentful. You can spot them at social gatherings, the grad students or interns who tell you about syndromes, conditions, deviances, and disorders, and they love, love, love to talk. They speak in half-sentences with a knowing smile-squint, watch you falter at the pause, and then keep talking.

I retired when I was 30 and I was bored shitless.

The fact is: It's true what they say about the United States. It is a land of opportunity. It is too various to get bored with it.

The Postmodernists' tyranny wears people down by boredom and semi-literate prose.

Nobody has any right to find life uninteresting or unrewarding who sees within the sphere of his own activity a wrong he can help to remedy, or within himself an evil he can hope to overcome.

Ennui has made more gamblers than avarice.

Nothing is as tedious as the limping days, When snowdrifts yearly cover all the ways, And ennui, sour fruit of incurious gloom, Assumes control of fate’s immortal loom

An oasis of horror in a desert of boredom.

I have a high pain threshold. In fact, it's more of a large and tastfully decorated foyer than a threshold. But I do get easily bored