Bored Quotes

• 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

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• Cherish forever what makes you unique, 'cuz you're really a yawn if it goes.

  Bette Midler

  Inspirational, Strong Women, Acceptance

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• 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

  Inspirational, Sad, Depression

  "Finding Viggo" by Alex Kuczynski, Vanity Fair, January 1, 2004.

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• The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity.

  Dorothy Parker

  Funny, Life, Wisdom

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• She refused to be bored chiefly because she wasn't boring.

  Zelda Fitzgerald

  Boredom, Boring, Bores

  Zelda Fitzgerald (2013). “The Collected Writings of Zelda Fitzgerald”, p.457, Simon and Schuster

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• I’m bored’ is a useless thing to say. I mean, you live in a great, big, vast world that you’ve seen none percent of. Even the inside of your own mind is endless; it goes on forever, inwardly, do you understand? The fact that you’re alive is amazing, so you don’t get to say ‘I’m bored.

  Louis C. K.

  Inspirational, Funny, Life

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• 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

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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

  Gertrude Stein

  Literature, Scared

  Gertrude Stein (2013). “Wars I Have Seen”, p.94, Random House

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• Punctuality is the virtue of the bored.

  Evelyn Waugh

  Work, Blessing, Bores You

  Michael Davie (ed.) Diaries of Evelyn Waugh (1976) "Irregular Notes 1960-65," 26 Mar. 1962

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• If I drive myself to the brink of my ability, then I don't get stale or bored.

  Dean Koontz

  Boredom, Ability, Stale

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• The band's never taken a year off. Last August we decided to take one, and three months in I was bored to tears.

  Steven Tyler

  Taken, August, Years

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• What I try to do is write. I may write for two weeks ‘the cat sat on the mat, that is that, not a rat,’.... And it might be just the most boring and awful stuff. But I try. When I’m writing, I write. And then it’s as if the muse is convinced that I’m serious and says, ‘Okay. Okay. I’ll come.

  Maya Angelou

  Cat, Writing, Two

  "Famous Writers Share How They Handle Writer’s Block" by Jeryl Brunner, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 29, 2015.

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• 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, Independent

  Virginia Woolf (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Virginia Woolf (Illustrated)”, p.2280, Delphi Classics

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• This is terrible, when a writer is bored by his own work, but it was a real bomb and had reached the point where I couldn't even stand to look at it any more.

  David Eddings

  Real, Umpires, Looks

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• Nothing happens. Nobody comes, nobody goes. It's awful.

  Samuel Beckett

  Awful, Waiting For Godot, Inertia

  Waiting for Godot act 1 (1952)

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• Boredom is just the reverse side of fascination.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Philosophical, Boredom, Fascination

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• I'm afraid of NOTHING except being bored!

  Greta Garbo

  Boredom, Being Bored

  "Fictional character: Marguerite Gautier". "Camille", 1936.

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• In order to live free and happily you must sacrifice boredom. It is not always an easy sacrifice.

  Richard Bach

  Happiness, Spiritual, Sacrifice

  "Illusions : The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah". Book by Richard Bach, 1977.

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• When people are bored it is primarily with themselves.

  Eric Hoffer

  Bores You, People, Boredom

  Eric Hoffer (1982). “Between the Devil and the Dragon: The Best Essays and Aphorisms of Eric Hoffer”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• I get bored very easily. I have a voracious appetite and I do not feel alive if I'm repeating something I'm good at. So I'm always looking for new challenges.

  Jewel

  Challenges, Looking For Love, Alive

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

  Cliff Burton

  Burn Out

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

  Lord Byron

  Two, Bores You, Trying

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• I don't know why people think child actresses in particular are screwed up. I see kids everywhere who are totally bored. I've never been bored a day in my life.

  Jodie Foster

  Children, Kids, Thinking

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

  Richard Marx

  Way, Complete Freedom

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• For the past couple of years I've been pretty bored with music in general... just bored with it.

  Les Claypool

  Couple, Past, Years

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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