Bored Quotes

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

Life, Work, Happiness

Since boredom advances and boredom is the root of all evil, no wonder, then, that the world goes backwards, that evil spreads. This can be traced back to the very beginning of the world. The gods were bored; therefore they created human beings.
Soren Kierkegaard

Evil, Human, Boredom

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

Life, Morning, Enough

I know many books which have bored their readers, but I know of none which has done real evil.
Voltaire

Evil, Real, Done

Only those who want everything done for them are bored.
Billy Graham

Everything, Done

A lot of people are bored of all the political correctness.
Clint Eastwood

One sometimes says: 'He killed himself because he was bored with life.' One ought rather to say: 'He killed himself because he was bored by lack of life.'
Victor Hugo

Life, Sometimes, Rather

There are few virtuous women who are not bored with their trade.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Women, Few, Trade

We always get bored with those whom we bore.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

If I die prematurely I shall be saved from being bored to death at my own success.
Samuel Butler

Success, Death, Die

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

Time, Between, Ideas

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

Famous, Everybody, Line

The man who is aware of himself is henceforward independent; and he is never bored, and life is only too short, and he is steeped through and through with a profound yet temperate happiness.
Virginia Woolf

Life, Happiness, Through

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

Lazy, Unexpected, Hand

The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore.
Samuel Butler

Himself, Bore, Lets

I mean, give me a guitar, give me a piano, give me a broom and string, I wouldn't get bored anywhere.
Keith Richards

Mean, Give, Guitar

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

Sad, Crazy, Angry

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

Society, Two, Mighty

I'm bored' is a useless thing to say. You live in a great, big, vast world that you've seen none percent of.
Louis C. K.

Great, Live, Big

The world is quickly bored by the recital of misfortune, and willing avoids the sight of distress.
W. Somerset Maugham

Willing, Sight, Misfortune

I never did pal around with actresses. Their talk usually bored me to tears.
Bette Davis

Around, Talk, Tears

I get irritated, nervous, very tense or stressed, but never bored.
Catherine Deneuve

Nervous, Irritated, Tense

I get bored easily, so I need to do a lot. I've started a record label, so I get to nurture new talent and talk about music, which is a passion of mine. I've written another book. And I get to come to work and do the TV show, which is always really fun.
Ellen DeGeneres

Music, Work, Fun

Is it worse to be scared than to be bored, that is the question.
Gertrude Stein

Question, Scared, Worse

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!
Wendy O. Williams

Hate, Makes, Normal

Nobody is bored when he is trying to make something that is beautiful or to discover something that is true.
William Ralph Inge

Beautiful, True, Trying

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.
Dustin Hoffman

Human, Understand, Boredom

When people are bored it is primarily with themselves.
Eric Hoffer

Themselves, Primarily

The wise person often shuns society for fear of being bored.
Jean de la Bruyere

Fear, Society, Wise

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

Getting, Fast, Slow

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