Boring Quotes

Nobody is bored when he is trying to make something that is beautiful or to discover something that is true.

~ William Ralph Inge

The one sure means of dealing with boredom is to care for someone else to do something kind and good.

~ Theodore Haecker

Everything considered work is less boring than amusing oneself.

~ Charles Baudelaire

Man is the only animal that can be bored.

~ Erich Fromm

The only unhappiness is a life of boredom.

~ Stendhal

Getting bored is not allowed.

~ Kay Thompson

One can be bored until boredom becomes a mystical experience.

~ Logan Pearsall Smith

One must choose in life between boredom and suffering.

~ Madame De Stael

We often forgive those who bore us but can't forgive those whom we bore.

~ François De La Rochefoucauld

Dullness is a misdemeanor.

~ Ethel Wilson

Over-excitement and boredom are states of mind which I equally shun.

~ E. V. Knox

Passions are less mischievous than boredom for passions tend to diminish and boredom increase.

~ Jules Barbey D'aurevilly

It is better to be happy for the moment and be burned up with beauty than to live a long time and be bored all the while.

~ Don Marquis

Boredom: the desire for desires.

~ Leo Tolstoy

The only menace is inertia.

~ Saint John Perse

Boredom is useful to me when I notice it and think: Oh I'm bored there must be something else I want to be doing ... boredom acts as an initiator of originality by pushing me into new activities or new thoughts.

~ Hugh Prather

One of man's finest qualities is described by the simple word guts-the ability to take it. If you have the discipline to stand fast when your body wants to run if you can control your temper and remain cheerful in the face of monotony or disappointments you have guts in the soldiering sense.

~ Colonel John S. Roosman

Life is as tedious as a twice-told tale vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man.

~ William Shakespeare

An enthusiast may bore others but he has never a dull moment himself.

~ John Kieran

Three-quarters of a soldier's life is spent in aimlessly waiting about.

~ Eugene Rosenstock-Huessy

Humor has become so cliche and boring that nothing's funny anymore unless it involves something totally disgusting that offends somebody or makes them feel really uncomfortable.

~ Tom Delonge

I find any sort of acting that doesn't have any humor in it is mind-numbingly boring. 'Serious acting' is the kind of acting that I don't ever respond to.

~ Andrew Scott

I find any sort of acting that doesn't have any humor in it is mind-numbingly boring.

~ Andrew Scott

Success is boring... failure is exciting and more entertaining.

~ Anupam Kher

Each year, thousands of UFOs are sighted and reported, which is an impressive tally of unidentified aerial phenomena. Surveys show that roughly one-third of the populace believes that at least some of this sky show is due to extraterrestrial spacecraft, here to probe our airspace and, when that proves boring, our bodies.

~ Seth Shostak

The real story of Facebook is just that we've worked so hard for all this time. I mean, the real story is actually probably pretty boring, right? I mean, we just sat at our computers for six years and coded.

~ Mark Zuckerberg

Writing is boring, very boring, and it takes so much patience.

~ Ingmar Bergman

I don't have a lot of patience for boring arthouse movies.

~ Zoe Kazan

There is something curiously boring about somebody else's happiness.

~ Aldous Huxley

Morning Joe was boring. Scarborough is neither eloquent nor funny.

~ Alec Baldwin

Without question, students need to practice, review, and drill skills, but they should do so only in the spirit of working toward more complex mastery of those skills. Redundant drill of skills is inherently boring and insulting to the learner, and it is one of the most effective methods for turning students off to learning.

~ Heidi Hayes Jacobs

The good thing about flying solo is it's never boring.

~ Steve Fossett

I have a fear of being boring.

~ Christian Bale

Travel books are, by and large, boring. They lodge uncomfortably between fact, fiction and autobiography.

~ Arthur Smith

In India, there is a psychological problem that movies going to film festivals are boring. It is a problem with exhibitors.

~ Anurag Kashyap

It gets so boring at home. After all, how many reruns of Abbott and Costello movies can a guy watch on television?

~ Bud Abbott

I think marriage is a boring and fault-ridden contractual obligation.

~ Henry Rollins

Trust the Canadians to produce a game about mutual funds that is actually more boring than the real thing.

~ Alex Berenson

Beauty is boring because it is predictable.

~ Umberto Eco

Perfect is boring: Beauty is irregular.

~ Gloria Steinem