Quotes tagged ‘Boredom’

“Going on tour each night excited him very much. But he said to me flat out, 'I'm tired.' I think he fulfilled all his wishes and dreams and maybe got a little oversaturated.”

— Tony VIsconti, amazon.com

“Life can be fun, a party. But it's the same loop, over and over, an endless loop to the grave…”

— John O'Connor, Cal Roberts, Hugh Dancy, imdb.com

“Well you know, all you guys ever do is sit around the coffee shop talking, sit around Jerry's apartment talking. Frankly, I don't know how you can stand it. I’ll see you.”

— David Mandel, Susan Ross, Heidi Swedberg, imdb.com

“They're prisons. Manmade prisons. You're doing time. You get up in the morning. She's there. You go to sleep at night. She's there. It's like you gotta ask permission to use the bathroom. ‘Is it all right if I use the bathroom now?’”

— Larry David, Cosmo Kramer, Michael Richards, imdb.com

“You know what I've come to realize? I'm not just bored. I genuinely dislike her.”

— Larry David, George Costanza, Jason Alexander, imdb.com

“Why do I always have the feeling that everybody's doing something better than me on Saturday afternoons?”

— Larry David, Jerry Seinfeld, Jerry Seinfeld, imdb.com

“I have nothing to say to anybody. I'm so uninteresting. I think I'm out of conversation.”

— Larry David, George Costanza, Jason Alexander, imdb.com

“I am not much for the family gathering. You know, you sit there, and the conversation's so boring. It's so dull. And you start to fantasize. You know, you think, what if I just got up and jumped out that window? What would it be like? Just crashed right through the glass. You know. Come back in, the…”

— Larry David, Jerry Seinfeld, Jerry Seinfeld, Jerry Seinfeld, imdb.com

“Work is making a living out of being bored.”

— Karl Lagerfeld, glamourmagazine.co.uk

“I once had a job drilling holes I left because it was boring”

— fatjeff1980, reddit.com

“There's a good chance that if you're talking to me when I'm snoring, it means I'm bored.”

— Garry Shandling, esquire.com

“She was bored. She loved, had capacity to love, for love, to give and accept love. Only she tried twice and failed twice to find somebody not just strong enough to deserve it, earn it, match it, but even brave enough to accept it.”

— William Faulkner, amazon.com

“I am rarely bored alone; I am often bored in groups and crowds.”

— Laurie Helgoe, amazon.com

“Boredom is the root of all evil – the despairing refusal to be oneself.”

— Søren Kierkegaard, goodreads.com

“Boredom is only for boring people with no imagination.”

— Tim Tharp, amazon.com

“But the way I developed my style, really, was getting bored. I would be in a nightclub and play for four hours, and you sing the song like somebody - the guy that wrote it or the guy that sang it. And I got tired of that. So I started changing the rhythms and maybe giving it a heavier beat, and just…”

— Waylon Jennings, npr.org

“In love there are no vacations. No such thing. Love has to be lived fully with its boredom and all that.”

— Marguerite Duras, amazon.com

“I mused for a few moments on the question of which was worse, to lead a life so boring that you are easily enchanted or a life so full of stimulus that you are easily bored.”

— Bill Bryson, amazon.com

“Before the Internet, you could laze around on a park bench in Chicago reading some Dean Koontz, and that would be a legit thing to do and no one would ever know you had done it unless you told them.”

— Emma Rathbone, newyorker.com

“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