“Conversations bore me, to visit people bores me, the sorrows and joys of my relatives bore me to my soul.”

“My own business always bores me to death. I prefer other people's.”

“She's just as bored as me
she caught me off my guard
it amazes me, the will of instinct”

“Somebody's boring me. I think it's me.”

“The moon was turned toward me,
Like a platter made of gold,
My death, it almost bored me,
So often was it told.”

“My mother bore me in the southern wild,
And I am black, but O! my soul is white;
White as an angel is the English child,
But I am black as if bereaved of light.”

“My worst character flaw that I'm conscious of is that I tend to think my way into circles instead of resolving anything. It's paralyzing and boring for people around me.”

“Cooking is like decorating — it never bores me.”

“I begin with the principle that all men are bores. Surely no one will prove himself so great a bore as to contradict me in this.”

“I never make moral judgments. All I would say is that a person was droll, or gay, or, above all, a bore. Making judgments for or against my characters bores me enormously; it doesn’t interest me at all. The only morality for a novelist is the morality of his esthétique.”