Famous Quotes & Sayings

Harvey Mackay

You're a lot better off being scared than being bored.

Philip Larkin

Life is first boredom, then fear,

Jonathan Safran Foer

Weeks passed like boats waiting to sail into the starless dawn, we were full of aimless endless darkness.

Joaquin Phoenix

I wouldn't feel satisfied being on set every day doing a romantic comedy - I'd be bored to death.

John C. Reilly

I'm bored by repeating myself, and I would imagine that an audience would be bored by me repeating myself.

Emile M. Cioran

There is only one thing worse than boredom, and that is the fear of boredom.

Emile M. Cioran

Boredom dismantles the mind, renders it superficial, out at the seams, saps it from within and dislocates it.

Emile M. Cioran

Between Ennui and Ecstasy unwinds our whole experience of time.

Ellen DeGeneres

I like being busy and juggling a lot of things at the same time. I get bored easily, so I need to do a lot.

Ellen DeGeneres

I like to try new things because I get bored so easily.

Eric Andre

Like I said, a sketch is one joke. They shouldn't really be more than a minute, two minutes. There are some shows where the sketch goes on for five minutes. It's like, "I get it! I'm already bored. I did like the joke, but I don't anymore, because you went on too long."

Emily Carr

Twenty can't be expected to tolerate sixty in all things, and sixty gets bored stiff with twenty's eternal love affairs.

Remy de Gourmont

An imbecile is never bored: he contemplates himself.

Tim Gunn

We shop out of boredom, for release, for excitement, for a sense of achievement, for a sense of control over our unruly existences. And every so often, we shop because we need something to wear.

Laurie Helgoe

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

Terry Pratchett

I’ve seen excitement, and I’ve seen boredom. And boredom was best.

Leonard Orr

Boredom is the effort used in suppressing something negative.

Peter Kreeft

The rich fop Francis of Assisi was bored all his life-until he fell in love with Christ and gave all his stuff away and became the troubadour of Lady Poverty.

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

The world, this palpable world, which we were wont to treat with the boredom and disrespect with which we habitually regard places with no sacred association for us, is in truth a holy place, and we did not know it. Venite, adoremus.

James Altucher

Help is a conversation. If one side talks too much, the other side will get bored. So make sure you help back when you can.

Henry Cejudo

I love to compete. I competed in 40-50 matches internationally all across the world. I'm young, I'm healthy, and I love to compete. If I don't compete, I'll get bored.

Malcolm Mclaren

What are the politics of boredom?

Mike Leigh

If a film or any piece of work doesn't entertain, it fails - and that is using the word entertain literally, meaning it holds you there and you become absorbed by it so that you don't walk away and get bored and so on.

Jonathan Stroud

I wanted to wake you straightaway, but I knew I had to wait several hours to ensure you were safely recovered." "What! How long has it been?" "Five minutes. I got bored.

Lusia Strus

I get bored at the theatre a lot because I notice that there's not always a connection between the actors. They may be technically proficient, but they're not surprising each other. I'm thrilled by actors who make choices that are surprising.

Laini Taylor

Boredom is a terrible affliction of the soulless.

John Updike

How can the planet keep turning and turning and not get so bored it explodes?

James Richardson

I'm sitting here bored, ... trying to remember that everything is a complete mystery.

Simon Baker

I need some challenges in love or I'm bored.

Natalie Imbruglia

I'm such a chameleon. I never get bored.

Tallulah Bankhead

If I were well behaved, I'd die of boredom.

Tony Robbins

You can't sit at the table of success for too long or you'll feel bored and dead.

Tony Robbins

Many people try to avoid pressure, yet the absence of any tension or pressure usually creates a sense of boredom and the lackluster experience of life that so many people complain about.