Fighting Boredom: 11 Bored Quotes to Energize Your Day

Teacher who make Physics boring are criminals – Walter Lewin

What is it about actors? God knows I get bored with actors talking about themselves. – Alan Rickman

Most songs have bridges in them, to distract listeners from the main verses of a song so they don’t get bored. My songs don’t have a lot of bridges because lyric poetry never had them. – Bob Dylan

Being blonde, for me, means never having to say: ‘I’ll have the honey-striped half-head of highlights for £200,’ to a bored colourist in a Mayfair salon, which is much more satisfying, not to mention cheap. – Rachel Johnson

Every nervous system creates its own “reality,” minute by minute – we live inside a “bubble” of neural abstractions which we identify with reality. You can make this neurological fact into conscious experience, and you will never be bored or depressed again. – Robert Anton Wilson

The trick to being a good actor is getting so involved in your character that the camera disappears, the 50 bored guys eating doughnuts disappear, friends disappear. To get to that point when you don’t have to think about it, you’re just acting and reacting in those circumstances. – Val Kilmer

We’re all sinking in the same boat here. We’re all bored and desperate and waiting for something to happen. Waiting for life to get better. Waiting for things to change. Waiting for that one person to finally notice us. We’re all waiting. But we also need to realize that we all have the power to make those changes for ourselves. – Susane Colasanti

I’m bored to tears by how many clowns have been leaders. That’s why it’s important to be the best we can be within our own little lives. This divine comic tragedy just keeps getting darker and darker. It’s a pattern. What goes up comes down and what comes down goes up. When the wall is finished being built, someday it will get torn down. And then someday it will be built back up again. – Teri Gender Bender

I think about dying but I don’t want to die. Not even close. In fact my problem is the complete opposite. I want to live, I want to escape. I feel trapped and bored and claustrophobic. There’s so much to see and so much to do but I somehow still find myself doing nothing at all. I’m still here in this metaphorical bubble of existence and I can’t quite figure out what the hell I’m doing or how to get out of it. – Matthew Healy

People inside the theaters usually, not 100 percent but most of them, enjoy the movie. Usually they come with a small negative view. In a way, they’re prepared to get bored because it’s silent and because it’s black and white. So they are much more pleased to be entertained in a way. They’re very happy when they go out. This was my job. For the other ones, I can do nothing except screen the movie and hope that they will say to their friends that it’s not so [bad]. – Michel Hazanavicius

Jack was mid-jump when I burst into my room. I snatched his ankle,flipping him horizontal.He crashed down hard to my bed and rolled off onto the floor. And laughed. “Let’s do that again! But this time I’ll jump even higher.” “No! No,you won’t! What are you going here?” He sat up on the floor and shrugged. “I was bored.” “I don’t care! I’m not your babysitter!” His blue eyes twinkled.Honestly, whose eyes actually twinkle? Then his face crumpled,his lower lip jutting out.He blinked his ridiculously long eyelashes at me. “I thought we were friends.” “Oh,knock it off. – Kiersten White

Being bored is an insult to oneself. – Jules Renard

Flying is hours and hours of boredom sprinkled with a few seconds of sheer terror. – Pappy Boyington

As actors, the thing we have to fight, more than even the business part of making movies, is boredom. – Linda Fiorentino

They bore within their breasts the grief That fame can never heal- That deep, unutterable woe Which none save exiles feel. – William Edmondstoune Aytoun

There is nothing frightening about an eternal dreamless sleep. Surely it is better than eternal torment in Hell and eternal boredom in Heaven. – Isaac Asimov

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. – David F. D’Alessandro

Why do long marriages occasionally endow their inhabitants with a rare kind of equilibrium otherwise almost unknown in human relations? My guess is that the value of the moment has at last overshadowed the long history of resentments, betrayals, and boredom. – Carolyn Heilbrun

Children of the middle years do not do their learning unaffected by attendant feelings of interest, boredom, success, failure, chagrin, joy, humiliation, pleasure, distress and delight. They are whole children responding in a total way, and what they feel is a constant factor that can be constructive or destructive in any learning situation. – Dorothy H Cohen

Boredom has been used as a technique, it is a device. In Zen, boredom is used as a device: you are bored to death, and you are not allowed to escape. You are not to go outside, you are not to entertain yourself, you are not to do, you are not to talk, you are not to read novels and detective stories. No thrill. No possibility to escape anywhere. – Rajneesh

For myself, I like a universe that, includes much that is unknown and, at the same time, much that is knowable. A universe in which everything is known would be static and dull, as boring as the heaven of some weak-minded theologians. A universe that is unknowable is no fit place for a thinking being. The ideal universe for us is one very much like the universe we inhabit. And I would guess that this is not really much of a coincidence. – Carl Sagan

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