Thoughts of Bored Quotes in English

Patience and boredom are closely related. Boredom, a certain kind of boredom, is really impatience. You don't like the way things are, they aren't interesting enough for you, so you decide – and boredom is a decision – that you are bored.

Bertrand Russell

I'm bored," he says. "So go home." "I don't want to. What do you do when you're bored? You don't have Internet or TV. Do you just sit around all day and think about how hot I am?

- Colleen Hoover

You get ideas from daydreaming. You get ideas from being bored. You get ideas all the time. The only difference between writers and other people is we notice when we’re doing it.

Neil Gaiman

Patience and boredom are closely related. Boredom, a certain kind of boredom, is really impatience. You don’t like the way things are, they aren’t interesting enough for you, so you decide - and boredom is a decision - that you are bored.

- Bertrand Russell

Boredom is your window on the properties of time that one tends to ignore to the likely peril of one's mental equilibrium. It is your window on time's infinity. Once this window opens, don't try to shut it; on the contrary, throw it wide open.

Joseph Brodsky

Getting bored pertains only to the stupid people in this planet of wonders! For the clever, even the simplest things of life - like sunrise or sunset - are a great source of entertainment!

- Mehmet Murat ildan

Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours.

Dale Carnegie

Boredom is your window on the properties of time that one tends to ignore to the likely peril of one’s mental equilibrium. It is your window on time’s infinity. Once this window opens, don’t try to shut it; on the contrary, throw it wide open.

- Joseph Brodsky

Sometimes they opened a book and closed it again; what was the point? On other days they had the idea of tidying up the garden, but after a quarter of an hour they felt tired; or of looking at their farm, but they came back sick at heart; or doing household jobs, but Germaine cried out in protest; they gave up.

- Gustave Flaubert

Bored with daily routine work? Common feeling! However, it's the routine which bores us, not the work; work can be very interesting once we understand its logic; change your routine, try performing your daily tasks in a different manner, sign your work as a masterpiece. Artists are remembered painters aren't.

- Shahenshah Hafeez Khan

I’m bored’ is a useless thing to say. I mean, you live in a great, big, vast world that you’ve seen none percent of. Even the inside of your own mind is endless; it goes on forever, inwardly, do you understand? The fact that you’re alive is amazing, so you don’t get to say ‘I’m bored.

- Louis C.K.

Bored Quotes List and Sayings

The penalty for success is to be bored by the people who used to snub you.

- Nancy Astor

I always think boredom is to some extent the fault of the bored.

- Bored Quotes by Kate Ross

Good-bye. I am leaving because I am bored.

- George Saunders Quotation

Being bored is an insult to oneself.

- Bored Quotes by Jules Renard

Boredom, the desire for desires.

- A Quotation From Leo Tolstoy

Boredom comes from a boring mind.

Metallica

Boredom is a pleasing antidote for fear.

Daphne du Maurier

Bore, n. a person who talks when you wish him to listen.

- Bored Quote by Ambrose Bierce

[S]he refused to be bored chiefly because she wasn't boring.

- Zelda Fitzgerald

The capacity of human beings to bore one another seems to be vastly greater than that of any other animal.

- H.L. Mencken

I never feel bored as long as my mind is with me.

- Munia Khan

Before you get bored of yourself try creativity in your life.

Amit Kalantri

Boredom is just the reverse side of fascination.

Arthur Schopenhauer

Life is never boring, but some people choose to be bored.

Wayne Dyer

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

Bert Leston Taylor

The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity.

Dorothy Parker

I just get bored really quickly and want to push myself to the next level.

Courtney Barnett

There is no such thing as a boring person when you are lonely or extremely bored.

- Mokokoma Mokhonoana

One could get bored even with beauty when one was constantly surrounded by it.

- Morgan Rhodes

Staying busy keeps me away from being bored, which used to be a lot of my problem.

Kirk Windstein

Your biggest battles internally happen in boredom.

- J.R. Rim

Like the average, I get bored by the average.

- Robert Black

There are no uninteresting things, only uninterested people.

G.K. Chesterton

Boredom doesn't exist where creativity lives.

- Sanjo Jendayi

All kinds are good except the kind that bores you.

Voltaire

When bored, give yourself up to something uncommon!

- Mehmet Murat ildan

A bore is a person who opens his mouth and puts his feats in it.

- Henry Ford

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

Victor Hugo

It is usually impossible to be bored while you have a serious problem.

- Mokokoma Mokhonoana

The truth is that everyone is bored, and devotes himself to cultivating habits.

Albert Camus

I was fifteen.
I was bored.
I was miserable.

- Benjamin Alire Sáenz

Perhaps the world's second worst crime is boredom. The first is being a bore.

Cecil Beaton

Boredom and fatigue are great historical forces.

Jacques Barzun

Being bored is the price we pay for not being insane.

- Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Against boredom the gods themselves fight in vain.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Before you get bored of yourself try creativity in your life.

- Amit Kalantri

I'm terrified of being bored and not learning.

Alexa Chung

When you're bored with yourself, marry and be bored with someone else.

Edward VIII

Boredom can be a lethal thing on a small island.

Christopher Moore

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

- Shelby Foote *

I would rather die of passion than of boredom.

Emile Zola

A bored Gwenvael is an entire town destroyed accidently.

G.A. Aiken

Only those who want everything done for them are bored.

Billy Graham

I want to feel something, as a person. I don't want to be bored.

Pina Bausch

I always think boredom is to some extent the fault of the bored.

Kate Ross

Don't let yourself get bored. Exist to question; question your existence.

- Doug Cooper

The truth is that everyone is bored, and devotes himself to cultivating habits.

Albert Camus

The penalty for success is to be bored by the people who used to snub you.

Nancy Astor

People will accept you the way you are till they get bored of who you are.

- Nitya Prakash

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

- Victor Hugo

When people are bored, it is primarily with their own selves that they are bored.

Eric Hoffer

Bored Sayings in English

I always get bored with my hair. That's why I would always change it throughout my career.

Janet Jackson

You don't burn out from going too fast. You burn out from going too slow and getting bored.

Cliff Burton

Being busy is better than being bored. Bored left a long time ago. Busy is always around for me.

- Tabitha Robin

The writer's curse is that even in solitude, no matter its duration, he never grows lonely or bored.

Criss Jami

I dreaded having a boring life when I grew up. And I certainly can't complain about being bored.

Ina May Gaskin

You ought not to be ashamed of being bored. What you ought to be ashamed of is being boring.

Lord Hailsham

Boredom is the conviction that you can't change. The shriek of unused capacities.

Saul Bellow

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

Jonathan Lethem

The concept of boredom entails an inability to use up present moments in a personally fulfilling way.

Wayne Dyer

I want to be bored. But I can't. But I really don't want to be this thing that I'm having to be instead of being bored.

Ali Smith

There's no excuse to be bored. Sad, yes. Angry, yes. Depressed, yes. Crazy, yes. But there's no excuse for boredom, ever.

Viggo Mortensen

Every hero becomes a bore at last.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson Download or Share

The secret of being a bore is to tell everything.

- Bored Thoughts by Voltaire Download or Share

Someone's boring me. I think it's me.

- Bored Quotes by Dylan Thomas Download or Share

Life is as tedious as a twice-told tale Vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man.

- William Shakespeare Download or Share

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

Bert Leston Taylor Download or Share

The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity.

- Bored Quotes by Dorothy Parker Download or Share

Every improvement in communication makes the bore more terrible.

- Frank Moore Colby Download or Share

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

- Gian Vincenzo Gravina Download or Share

The nice thing about being a celebrity is that when you bore people, they think it's their fault.

- Henry Kissinger Download or Share

A healthy male adult bore consumes each year one and a half times his own weight in other people's patience.

- John Updike Download or Share

If you’re bored with life – you don’t get up every morning with a burning desire to do things – you don’t have enough goals.

Lou Holtz

Boredom between two people doesn’t come from being together physically. It comes from being apart mentally and spiritually.

Richard Bach

If you're bored with life - you don't get up every morning with a burning desire to do things - you don't have enough goals.

Lou Holtz

Human beings make life so interesting. Do you know, that in a universe so full of wonders, they have managed to invent boredom.

Terry Pratchett

Something more terrible than a hell where one suffers may be imagined, and that is a hell where one is bored.

- Victor Hugo

Summer had a way of being full of fun and things to do and plenty of times of doing nothing and feeling bored.

- Sofi Benitez

Beware of those who are bored and not passionate about life, for they will bore you with reasons for not living.

- Suzy Kassem

It's interesting the fact that when you are bored times passes slow, when you are interested it passes fast.

- Deyth Banger

People who hate solitude have very low standards when it comes to the company they keep.

- Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Time crawls when you are bored; walks when you are occupied; runs when you are busy; but flies when you are having fun.

- Matshona Dhliwayo Thoughts

The life of the creative man is lead, directed and controlled by boredom. Avoiding boredom is one of our most important purposes.

Susan Sontag Thought

Boredom is not an end-product, is comparatively rather an early stage in life and art. You've got to go by or past or through boredom, as through a filter, before the clear product emerges.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

If you have started getting bored of your own words, this is a very good sign because you can now say new things which can excite you and others!

- Mehmet Murat ildan

There should be a place where you can take shelter and refresh yourself when you are upset, demoralised or bored, otherwise checkmate; and the game finishes for you!

- Mehmet Murat ildan

The ear tends to be lazy, craves the familiar and is shocked by the unexpected; the eye, on the other hand, tends to be impatient, craves the novel and is bored by repetition.

W. H. Auden

How will an immortal person spend his infinite life without getting bored? Well, he can simply try to find something which doesn’t exist!

- Mehmet Murat ildan

Solitude is not the only possible parent of boredom: we sometimes find ourselves bored to death while we are with someone, a few people, or even many people.

- Mokokoma Mokhonoana

I am certainly intrepid and splendid and sordid and strong; I can see why you'd want me! But I'm afraid I've left the kettle on or whatever it is people say when they're bored.

- Catherynne M. Valente

I can safely say, on the authority of all that is revealed in the Word of God, that any man or woman on this earth who is bored and turned off by worship is not ready for heaven.

- A.W. Tozer

Boredom is not an end-product, it is comparatively rather an early stage in life and art. You've got to go by or past or through boredom, as through a filter, before the clear product emerges.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Watching endless horizons is a refuge for bored souls. Just like a small piece of salt that has fallen into a large glass melts and becomes a part of the water, bored souls too melt in the endless horizons and transfer their sorrow to the eternity!

- Mehmet Murat ildan