Bored Quotes - Page 32

Very often, I confess, the teller of dreams bores me. His dream could perhaps interest me if it were frankly worked on. But to hear a glorious tale of his insanity! I have not yet clarified, psychoanalytically, this boredom during the recital of other people's dreams. Perhaps I have retained the stiffness of a rationalist. I do not follow the tale of justified incoherence docilely. I always suspect that part of the stupidities being recounted are invented.

The saying, "The Magyar is much too lazy to be bored," is worth thinking about. Only the most subtle and active animals are capable of boredom.--A theme for a great poet would be God's boredom on the seventh day of creation.

I have come to believe that holy boredom is good and sufficient reason for the invention of free will.

There are few virtuous women who are not bored with their trade.

We often boast that we are never bored; but yet we are so conceited that we do not perceive how often we bore others.

By the time everyone catches up with you, you're bored.

I never go to where's a risk. I'm frightened of dangers down to boredom.

Acting is so much about waiting... waiting for an audition, waiting for the right part to come along. It's nice to write your own thing, write about what you're feeling and then go out and perform them. It's a nice thing to have and not get bored.

I love boxing, and I try to mix it up as much as I can. Boxing makes you kind of tight, so it's really good to mix that with barre, pilates, or something that'll stretch you out and make you longer. I'm not the person that loves to be in the gym so much. I like to mix it up as much as possible, otherwise I'll get bored.

if you have once thoroughly bored somebody it is next to impossible to unbore him.

True will-power and courage are not on the battlefield, but in everyday conquests over our intertia, laziness, boredom.

Hard work never killed a man. Men die of boredom, psychological conflict, and disease. They do not die of hard work.

All sizes of film sets have the same level of excitement and friction and tension and then vast sections of boredom that define the process, so I love it all.

Every brand builder will face a million temptations to obscure, dilute, or confuse his or her brand message. These temptations fall under two general headings: boredom and the desire for growth.

Never bored, so I'll never get old

I've purposely stayed away from reading much about postmodern theory, and most everything I have read just bored me to tears. I don't think anybody's written about it, or very few have, with any verve.

I was a weird little kid. I was very irritable, bored, frustrated. I felt my imagination bubbling inside my head without having any way to express itself. Given a crayon and paper, I would not draw a train or a house. I would draw these monsters, beasts and demons.

If you are bored with Berkeley and San Francisco, you are bored with life.

The laws that keep us safe, these same laws condemn us to boredom.

I never became primarily a musician! I've always been a wanderer and I'm always bored.

I went into acting because I'm easily bored. Acting seemed to give vent to a lot of different feelings.

I can't remember the last time I was bored.

I can't be bothered to go to the gym, though. I honestly just can't be bothered - it's the most boring thing on Earth. I have tried and every six months I go 'right, I'm going to the gym'. Then I do it for two weeks and get so bored by it.

Do you suppose the human race invented boredom to make the prospect of death more palatable?

My despair is less despair than boredom and loneliness.