Famous Quotes & Sayings

Erica Jong

Turning fifty ... is like flying: hours of boredom punctuated by moments of sheer terror.

Gerald Brenan

Everyone is a bore to someone. That is unimportant. The thing to avoid is being a bore to oneself.

Jason Isbell

I've never been someone who's very prone to boredom. I don't know, boredom seems like something you should grow out of at about 15 or 16. There's so much that needs to be done.

Hal Sparks

Boredom is your mind and body's way of telling you you're not living up to your potential.

Hugh Prather

Boredom or discontent is useful to me when I acknowledge it and see clearly my assumption that there's something else I would rather be doing. In this way boredom can act as an invitation to freedom by opening me to new options and thoughts. For example, if I can't change the activity, can I look at it more honestly?

Jackie Collins

I don't like being in one place too long. Five days just about does it for me because I have a very low threshold for boredom.

Jess Walter

He found himself in habiting the vast, empty plateau where most people live, between boredom and contentment.

George H. W. Bush

What's wrong with being a boring kind of guy?

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Boredom ... causes us to neglect more duties than does interest.

David Nevins

The enemy of good television is boredom and predictability.

Walter Kirn

Thanks to Twitter, iPads, BlackBerrys, voice-activated in-dash navigation systems, and a hundred other technologies that offer distraction anywhere, anytime, boredom has loosened its grip on us at last - that once-crushing 'weight' has become, for the most part, a memory.

Daphne du Maurier

Boredom is a pleasing antidote for fear

Dwight L. Moody

True will-power and courage are not on the battlefield, but in everyday conquests over our intertia, laziness, boredom.