Famous Quotes & Sayings

Uma Thurman

Boredom is a great motivator.

Victor Hugo

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

Symmetry is tedious, and tedium is the very basis of mourning. Despair yawns.

Victor Hugo

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

Richard Marx

I have complete freedom, and there's no way to get pigeonholed or bored. What could be better than that?

Rene Magritte

Painting bores me like everything else. Unfortunately, painting is one of the activities - it is bound up in the series of activities - that seems to change almost nothing in life, the same habits are always recurring.

Renee Fleming

Being steeped in the process of learning and exploring keeps me from becoming too nervous. Partly it's about not getting bored.

Timothy Leary

To the elitist hedonist, life is the avoidance of boredom and routine.

Roman Polanski

With each film, i need an artistic challenge so I don't get bored! I like to tackle challenges.

Susan Orlean

I finally overcame my phobia, and now I approach flying with a sort of studied boredom - a learned habit, thanks to my learn-to-fly-calmly training - but like all former flying phobics, I retain a weird and feverish fascination with aviation news, especially bad news.

Susan Cain

Flow is an optimal state in which you feel totally engaged in an activity...In a state of flow, you're neither bored nor anxious, and you don't question your own adequacy. Hours pass without your noticing.

Sade Adu

I don't get easily bored. I'm not that kind of person.

Robertson Davies

Boredom and stupidity and patriotism, especially when combined, are three of the greatest evils of the world we live in.

Robert Payne

Long before the empire had reached its greatest extent, the Romans were bored by it.

Stephen Daldry

I always say, 'I really need to take a break.' It's three days in and I'm getting pretty bored.

Stephen Daldry

As soon as I know how to do something, I usually get bored with it.

Viktor E. Frankl

The existential vacuum manifests itself mainly in a state of boredom.

Susanna Kaysen

Emptiness and boredom: what a complete understatement. What I felt was complete desolation. Desolation, despair and boredom.

Susanna Kaysen

My chronic feelings of emptiness and boredom came from the fact that I was living a life based on my incapacities, which were numerous.

Taron Egerton

To be perfectly honest, I like pressure. It's something I find exciting. And I am the kind of personality that gets very bored very easily. The work I try and involve myself with is ordinarily determined by how much it sort of frightens me.

Stephen King

Las personas con un alto nivel de tolerancia al aburrimiento tienen tiempo de sobra para pensar.

Stephanie Mills

A person with friends need never be bored. There is always more to fathom and enjoy in the complexity of others, and always the possibility of finding a way to delight them.

Stephen Hawking

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

Stendhal

To seem sorrowful is not in good taste: You're supposed to seem bored.

Stendhal

The boredom of married life inevitable destroys love, when love has preceded marriage.

Stendhal

The only unhappiness is a life of boredom.

Simon Cowell

Rules equal boredom, and I don't like that.

Silvio Berlusconi

I'm not a traditional politician, and I have a sense of humor. I'll try to soften it and become boring, maybe even very boring, but I'm not sure if I'll be able to.

Shawn Ashmore

You get bored if you do the same thing too much.

Shahrukh Khan

If you get bored with the person you married for love, there's something wrong with you - not with that person.

Pina Bausch

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

Thomas Jane

I don't like to stick to one formula. That gets boring. I get bored, so I want to try different ways of getting inside something.

Regina Spektor

There's something about trying to know when you really need to protect yourself, or else you're not going to get anything done, and sometimes to be really uncomfortable or agitated or annoyed or bored. Boredom is so important.