Quotes tagged ‘Boredom’

“You've been looking a little worse for wear lately....stir-crazy?”

— Hannah Cheesman, Daniel Gold, Kathleen Phillips, Anne, Dani Kind, imdb.com

“Because of phones, we always have the ability to jump out of ourselves. But unless you learn how to be in your head, you'll never learn how to create.”

— Lin-Manuel Miranda, gq.com

“Only boring people get bored. But that's not really true, because I'm definitely not boring and I get bored a lot.”

— Lindsay Lohan, papermag.com

“You could check your email, but that still counts as working. You could check Facebook or Twitter or Instagram, but there's something so mundane about haphazardly scrolling through your peripheral friends' photos.”

— Lindsay Kolowich, blog.hubspot.com

“'A cocktail,' she said, 'is a great ally in the war.’ 'Which war is that?' I asked. 'The war against boredom.'”

— Matt Haig, amazon.com

“I have to go pee due to boredom.”

— Michael Bacall, Edgar Wright, Scott Pilgrim, Michael Cera, imdb.com

“Believe it or not, sometimes not doing anything at all is the most productive thing you can do.”

— Clay Skipper, gq.com

“But it's that moment, that boredom that's when you really get to know a person, you know? You're forced to be yourself or as close to your real self as you can be in front of another person.”

— David Wiener, Walter Cruz, Stephan James, imdb.com

“Phil: What would you do if you were stuck in one place and every day was exactly the same, and nothing that you did mattered? Ralph: That about sums it up for me.”

— Danny Rubin, Harold Ramis, Phil Connors, Bill Murray, imdb.com

“I’m bored is a useless thing to say. 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., amazon.com

“The few love affairs which had come my way had been rather silly and sordid. They had not revealed the possibilities of love; in fact I had thought it a somewhat overrated pleasure, a brief and brutal blindness with boredom and disgust hard on its heels.”

— Aleister Crowley, amazon.com

“No new horror can be more terrible than the daily torture of the commonplace.”

— H. P. Lovecraft, amazon.com

“I love my classroom. I could go to sleep in it. Some of my pupils do.”

— Jonathan Smith, tes.com

“Sam: It's Cindy. She's kind of boring. It's weird hanging out with her friends. And, I mean, all she wants to do is make out and stuff. Neal: I'd kill to be that bored.”

— Mike White, Jon Kasdan, Sam Weir, John Francis Daley, imdb.com

“Wanna know what kills more police than bullets and liquor? Boredom. They just can't handle that shit. You keep it boring, String. You keep it dead fucking boring.”

— Dennis Lehane, Joseph 'Proposition Joe' Stewart, Robert F. Chew, imdb.com

“I don't think I've been bored ever. I've always been working on two or three things at a time; whether it was in the early days, or whatever, I was always working on something.”

— Danny DeVito, theguardian.com

“This whole realm is just static.”

— Joseph Brodsky, poetryfoundation.org

“I'll tell you who the monsters are! The people outside this tent! In your town, in all these little towns. Housewives pinched with bitterness, stupefied with boredom as they doze off in front of their laundry detergent commercials, and dream of strange, erotic pleasures. They have no souls. My monst…”

— Ryan Murphy, Brad Falchuk, Elsa Mars, Jessica Lange, imdb.com

“I promise you one thing, if you stay with me, if you share your life with me, you'll never be bored.”

— Rosie Ravenstein, instagram.com

“I just sit around at home, and I have nothing to do, so I am on the Internet all the time.”

— Tila Tequila, nymag.com