Bored Quotes - Page 6

There's a rebirth that goes on with us continuously as human beings. I don't understand, personally, how you can be bored. I can understand how you can be depressed, but I just don't understand boredom.

The secret of boring people lies in telling them everything.

I'm bored with that line. I never use it anymore. My new line is 'In 15 minutes everybody will be famous.'

The absence of the will to live is, alas, not sufficient to make one want to die.

Nothing prevents boredom like a good book.

A meeting moves at the speed of the slowest mind in the room. (In other words, all but one participant will be bored, all but one mind underused.)

Every night I get up on stage, I love it. I never get like, 'Oh, I'm bored, I want to go home.' I never, ever get like that.

Never get bored or cynical. Yesterday is a thing of the past.

Compassion is an unstable emotion. It needs to be translated into action, or it withers. The question is what to do with the feelings that have been aroused, the knowledge that has been communicated. People don't become inured to what they are shown — if that's the right way to describe what happens — because of the quantity of images dumped on them. It is passivity that dulls feeling.

Nothing happens. Nobody comes, nobody goes. It's awful.

There is nothing boring in life except ourselves.

Society is now one polished horde, formed of two mighty tries, the Bores and Bored.

The Beatles saved the world from boredom.

i'm a slave to my emotions, to my likes, to my hatred of boredom, to most of my desires

Hours and hours passed, with nothing to do but keep the compass on its course and the plane on a level keel. This sounds easy enough, but its very simplicity becomes a danger when your head keeps nodding with weariness and utter boredom and your eyes everlastingly try to shut out the confusing rows of figures in front of you, which will insist on getting jumbled together.

Equations are just the boring part of mathematics. I attempt to see things in terms of geometry.

You begin by letting thoughts flow and watching them. The very observation slows down the mind till it stops altogether. Once the mind is quiet, keep it quiet. Don't get bored with peace, be in it, go deeper into it.

The beauty of facing life unprepared is tremendous. Then life has a newness, a youth; then life has a flow and freshness. Then life has so many surprises. And when life has so many surprises, boredom never settles in you.

Readers are lucky - they will never be bored or lonely.

These are the Seven Deadly Sins: Avarice, Envy, Pride, Gluttony, Lust, Anger, Sloth. These are the seven deadly sins: venality, paranoia, insecurity, excess, carnality, contempt, boredom.

I am rarely bored alone; I am often bored in groups and crowds.

Books - the best antidote against the marsh-gas of boredom and vacuity

One receives as reward for much ennui, despondency, boredom -such as a solitude without friends, books, duties, passions must bring with it -those quarter-hours of profoundest contemplation within oneself and nature. He who completely entrenches himself against boredom also entrenches himself against himself: he will never get to drink the strongest refreshing draught from his own innermost fountain.

Nothing that comes and goes is you. 'I am bored.' Who knows this? 'I am angry, sad, afraid.' Who knows this? You are the knowing, not the condition that is known.

I'm terrified of being bored and not learning.