“I like being with you because I'm never bored. Even when we're not talking, even when we're not touching, even when we're not in the same room, I'm not bored.”— Anna Gavalda, amazon.com
“If you're in a good relationship, chances are you're bored out of your fucking mind. All good relationships are boring. The only exciting relationships are the bad ones.”— Chris Rock, mic.com
“It can be stress or anxiety related. It can even be triggered by boredom.”— Audra Attaway, huffingtonpost.com
“The urge to text an ex can come from a variety of places: boredom, loneliness, horniness, thirst for attention, or even the inexplicable desire to create chaos in our own lives. These are valid urges, but why give your ex the unnecessary joy of satisfying them?”— Jamie Lauren Keiles, cosmopolitan.com
“The reason you want to text them right now is probably not because you feel, deep down, that they are the one. The reason you want to text them is something else – loneliness, lack of closure, boredom, a sense of being lost, perhaps the feeling that everyone around you is settling down and you don’t…”— Kim Quindlen, thoughtcatalog.com
“...and you drink a little too much and try a little too hard. And you go home to a cold bed and think, That was fine. And your life is a long line of fine.”— Gillian Flynn, amazon.com
“I have a curious constitution. I never remember feeling tired by work, though idleness exhausts me completely.”— Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, amazon.com
“Am I just eating because I'm bored?”— Jeffrey Price, Peter S. Seaman, Jim Carey, The Grinch, Jim Carrey, imdb.com
“I am bored to death with it. Bored to death with this place, bored to death with my life, bored to death with myself.”— Charles Dickens, amazon.com
“Cool: Texting when he's 10 minutes late for a date. Clingy: Texting 'what's up?' every time you're bored.”— Clint Carter, womenshealthmag.com
“See you becoming sleepy. Talk about a buzz kill. Showing you're sleepy shows him you're not focused and uninterested — both of which can ruin the moment.”— Liz Newman, yourtango.com
“Sometimes I get tired. Sometimes I get bored. And sometimes all I want, more than anything else in the world, is to go on a freaking date.”— Kiersten White, amazon.com
“I have seen so many extraordinary things, nothing seems extraordinary any more.”— Lewis Carroll, amazon.com
“He’s out of sync with your body language. When a guy is romantically interested in you, he will mimic your body language, so if he doesn’t copy you, gesture for gesture, odds are he isn’t smitten.”— Chelsea Kaplan, match.com
“Actions showing boredom: -Turning the body away from the subject or person. -Leaning away from the person. -Looking around. -Not making eye contact, especially if looking down.”— Amera Khanam, body-language.knoji.com
“Listen closely to the way he talks to you. If you two are having a conversation, but he is constantly looking at his phone, or looking somewhere else, that is certainly not a sign of he's a good listener, and it is most likely a sign that he is not very interested.”— Abie Giles, slism.com
“Each day I wondered what would happen next. What happens when you stop wanting, when you are happy. I supposed I would go on being happy forever. I knew I would not mess things up by growing bored. I had done that once before.”— Miranda July, amazon.com