Bored Quotes - Page 21

• Well, I try my best to be just like I am, But everybody wants you to be just like them, They sing while you slave and I just get bored

  Bob Dylan

  Trying, Want, Slave

  Song: Maggie's Farm

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• Consider the cattle, grazing as they pass you by. They do not know what is meant by yesterday or today, they leap about, eat, rest, digest, leap about again, and so from morn till night and from day to day, fettered to the moment and its pleasure or displeasure, and thus neither melancholy nor bored. [...] A human being may well ask an animal: 'Why do you not speak to me of your happiness but only stand and gaze at me?' The animal would like to answer, and say, 'The reason is I always forget what I was going to say' - but then he forgot this answer too, and stayed silent.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Animal, Night, Yesterday

  Friedrich Nietzsche (1997). “Nietzsche: Untimely Meditations”, p.98, Cambridge University Press

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• Never bored on a hoverboard.

  Scott Westerfeld

  Scott Westerfeld (2009). “Bogus to Bubbly: An Insider's Guide to the World of Uglies”, p.7, Simon and Schuster

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• I'm bored," she said. "Learn how to tap-dance," he suggested, without turning around.

  Neil Gaiman

  Said, Tap Dance

  Neil Gaiman (2012). “Coraline”, p.21, A&C Black

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• What I adore is supreme professionalism. I’m bored by writers who can write only when it’s raining.

  Noel Coward

  Rain, Writing, Professionalism

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• There they lay, but not in the forgetfulness of the previous night. She was seeking and he was seeking, they raged and contorted their faces and bored their heads into each others bosom in the urgency of seeking something, and their embraces and their tossing limbs did not avail to make them forget, but only reminded them of what they sought

  Franz Kafka

  Night, Faces, Forget

  Franz Kafka (1954). “The castle”, Alfred A. Knopf

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• Jolie laide = "pretty ugly" Draws you to it...bored into heart and mind.

  Justina Chen

  Heart, Mind, Ugly

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• To the non-combatants and those on the periphery of action, the war meant only boredom or occasional excitement, but to those who entered the meat grinder itself the war was a netherworld of horror from which escape seemed less and less likely as casualties mounted and the fighting dragged on and on. Time had no meaning, life had no meaning. The fierce struggle for survival in the abyss of Peleliu had eroded the veneer of civilization and made savages of us all.

  Eugene B. Sledge

  War, Struggle, Fighting

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• Martin in particular concluded that man was born to live either in the convulsions of misery, or in the lethargy of boredom.

  Voltaire

  Men, Boredom, Misery

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• I had learned from my reading that you can do really awful things when you are bored, things that are bound to make you miserable. In fact, you do them in order to become miserable, so you won't have to be bored anymore.

  Sam Savage

  Reading, Order, Awful

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• Sometimes I think I'd rather be frightened than bored. At least when you're frightened you know you're alive.

  John Marsden

  Thinking, Alive, Sometimes

  John Marsden (1998). “A Killing Frost”, p.12, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Of course boredom may lead you to anything. It is boredom sets one sticking golden pins into people, but all that would not matter. What is bad (this is my comment again) is that I dare say people will be thankful for the gold pins then.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  People, Boredom, Being Thankful

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• If you spend your whole life being careful not to break anything, you'll get terribly bored, you know...I can't think of anything more fun than being impulsive!

  Mathias Malzieu

  Fun, Thinking, Break

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• A true scientist is bored by knowledge; it is the assault on ignorance that motivates him - the mysteries that previous discoveries have revealed.

  Matt Ridley

  Ignorance, Discovery, Mystery

  "Gaither's Dictionary of Scientific Quotations". Book edited by Carl C. Gaither, Alma E. Cavazos-Gaither, p. 2065, 2012.

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• A typical weeknight when he was home like this: 1. Sit down and try to do homework. 2. Get interrupted by Jeffrey: “Please play with me!” 3. Ignore brother, try to do homework. 4. Get interrupted by Jeffrey: “Come ON, Steven! I’m BORED!” 5. Beg Jeffrey for five minutes of peace. 6. Get begged for five minutes of play: “Steven, you never, ever play with me—ever!” 7. Move entire homework operations center to different room. 8. Repeat steps #1-7 as directed by small drugged maniac.

  Jordan Sonnenblick

  Brother, Moving, Home

  Jordan Sonnenblick (2010). “Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie”, p.78, Scholastic Inc.

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• This book is written for those who want more Jesus. It is for those who are bored with what American Christianity offers. It is for those who don't want to plateau, those who would rather die before their convictions do.

  Francis Chan

  Jesus, Book, Want

  Francis Chan, Preston Sprinkle (2014). “The Francis Chan Collection: Crazy Love, Forgotten God, Erasing Hell, and Multiply”, p.14, David C Cook

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• Dead or not, you must be bored with women telling you how you look like the hottest, most exotic wet dream they’ve ever had. No wonder the thought of you, grapes, and some scented massage oils crossed my mind – and if you drop that towel again, I’m going to need a cold shower.

  Jeaniene Frost

  Dream, Oil, Mind

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• The thing is, some girls think they can actually change guys. And what’s funny is that if they actually did change them, they’d get bored. They’d have no challenge left. You just have to give girls some time to think of a new way of doing things, that’s all. Some of them will figure it out here. Some later. Some never. I wouldn’t worry about it too much.

  Stephen Chbosky

  Girl, Thinking, Giving

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• I was on a walking tour of Oxford colleges once with a group of bored and unimpressable tourists. They yawned at Balliol's quad, T.E. Lawrence's and Churchill's portraits, and the blackboard Einstein wrote his E=mc2 on. Then the tour guide said, 'And this is the Bridge of Sighs, where Lord Peter proposed (in Latin) to Harriet,' and everyone suddenly came to life and began snapping pictures. Such is the power of books.

  Connie Willis

  Latin, Book, College

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• Way far back in the beginning of the world was the whirlwind warning that we could all be blown away like chips and cry- Men with tired eyes realize it now, and wait to deform and decay- with maybe they have the power of love yet in their hearts just the same, I just don't know what that word means anymore- All I want is an ice cream cone

  Jack Kerouac

  Eye, Tired, Heart

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• Most people are blind to magic. They move thru a blank and empty world. They’re bored with their lives and there’s nothing they can do about it. They’re eaten alive by longing and they’re dead before they die.

  Lev Grossman

  Moving, People, Magic

  Lev Grossman (2009). “The Magicians: A Novel”, p.88, Penguin

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• Yes,yes I did. I told them to come in and make themselves at home and while they were at it, to immobilize me and stab me straight through the heart 'cause I'm just that effing bored." (Sam)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Home, Heart, Causes

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• If you're frightened of damaging yourself, you increase the risk of doing just that. Consider the tightrope walker. Do you think he spares any thought for falling while he's walking the rope? No, he accepts the risk, and enjoys the thrill of braving the danger. If you spend your whole life being careful not to break anything, you'll get terribly bored, you know... I can't think of anything more fun than being impulsive.

  Mathias Malzieu

  Fun, Fall, Thinking

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• What are you up to?" "I was trying to climb that tree. But I fell. Now I'm bored.

  Obert Skye

  Tree, Trying, Climbs

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• We have fun acting like this, acting like we are incredibly offended. Really, we are just bored to tears with everything.

  Joe Meno

  Fun, Tears, Acting

  Joe Meno (2008). “Demons in the Spring”, p.130, Akashic Books

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