Bored Quotes - Page 3

You can't get bored of winning. You can win 10 games in a row but you keep the same will to snatch the 11th. You always need more.

Idle people are often bored and bored people, unless they sleep a lot, are cruel. It is not accident that boredom and cruelty are great preoccupations in our time.

If you're not part of the freaks, you're part of the boredom.

He who seeks rest finds boredom. He who seeks work finds rest.

You need to let little things that would ordinarily bore you suddenly thrill you.

The intelligent man is never bored.

These days, when people are alone, or feel a moment of boredom, they tend to reach for a device. In a movie theater, at a stop sign, at the checkout line at a supermarket and, yes, at a memorial service, reaching for a device becomes so natural that we start to forget that there is a reason, a good reason, to sit still with our thoughts: It does honor to what we are thinking about. It does honor to ourselves.

Everyone is a bore to someone. That is unimportant. The thing to avoid is being a bore to oneself.

A bore is a man who, when you ask him how he is, tells you.

I abhor the idea of a perfect world. It would bore me to tears.

Boredom is vastly underrated. Boredom means that nothing is trying to kill you every day.

I learned to write fiction the way I learned to read fiction - by skipping the parts that bored me.

I'm afraid of habit patterns...It would be too much of a routine if you had to establish definite ways of getting through things. You'd get very bored.

Red is the great clarifier - bright and revealing. I can't imagine becoming bored with red - it would be like becoming bored with the person you love.

As many authors have said, if the writer is not surprised by events, then chances are that the reader will not be either, and grow bored.

We are bored in the city, there is no longer any Temple of the Sun.

A bore is someone who deprives you of solitude without providing you with company.

When we learn to TOLERATE boredom, we find out who we really are.

All God does is watch us and kill us when we get boring. We must never, ever be boring.

Existence for eternity could get a little boring... especially towards the end.

Who wants a world in which the guarantee that we shall not die of starvation entails the risk of dying of boredom?

The world, this palpable world, which we were wont to treat with the boredom and disrespect with which we habitually regard places with no sacred association for us, is in truth a holy place, and we did not know it. Venite, adoremus.

Jonathan Seagull discovered that boredom and fear and anger are the reasons that a gull's life is so short, and with those gone from his thought, he lived a long fine life indeed.

I'm such a chameleon. I never get bored.

Basically, I hate conformity. I hate people telling me what to do. It makes me want to smash things. So-called normal behaviour patterns make me so bored, I could throw up!