Quotes about bore
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“Nothing is boring exept to people who aren't really paying attention.”

Source: Summerland

“You are the most boring teacher ever."
He grinned and gave me a quick kiss on the cheek, just as a knock sounded at the door. "It all depends on what you me to teach you.”

Richelle Mead (1976) American writer

Source: Storm Born

Kiss, Teachers, Dependency

“The theologian who labors without joy is not a theologian at all. Sulky faces, morose thoughts and boring ways of speaking are intolerable in this field.”

Karl Barth (1886–1968) Swiss Protestant theologian

Way, Joy

“I have noticed that teachers get exciting confused with boring a lot.”

Sara Pennypacker (1951) American children's writer (pseudonym)

Source: The Talented Clementine

Teachers

“Doing what you're supposed to do is always boring. I can't imagine anything worse than being required to have fun.”

Scott Westerfeld book Uglies

Source: Uglies

Imagination

“It's so quiet and peaceful out here I'm getting bored with breathing. Maybe we'll get lucky and the world will go to Hell again. Fingers crossed.”

Richard Kadrey (1957) San Francisco-based novelist, freelance writer, and photographer

Source: Aloha from Hell

World, Peace, Hell

“The basic fact about human existence is not that it is a tragedy, but that it is a bore. It is not so much a war as an endless standing in line. The objection to it is not that it is predominantly painful, but that it is lacking in sense.”

H.L. Mencken (1880–1956) American journalist and writer

Baltimore Evening Sun (9 August 1926)
1920s
Source: A Mencken Chrestomathy

Pain, War, Sense

“The netherworld is timeless and unchanging, and boring -- much like a doctor's waiting room.”

Christopher Moore book Practical Demonkeeping

Source: Practical Demonkeeping

Waiting

“No one on earth is so boring and insignificant that he or she is not worth writing or reading about… One thing's for sure—no one but you can be the hero of your story.”

Jerry Spinelli (1941) American children's writer

Source: Today I Will: A Year of Quotes, Notes, and Promises to Myself

Reading

“The mature man lives quietly, does good privately, takes responsibility for his actions, treats others with friendliness and courtesy, finds mischief boring and avoids it. Without the hidden conspiracy of goodwill, society would not endure an hour.”

Kenneth Rexroth (1905–1982) American poet, writer, anarchist, academic and conscientious objector

“Sometimes the facts in my head get bored and decide to take a walk in my mouth. Frequently this is a bad thing.”

Scott Westerfeld book So Yesterday

Source: So Yesterday

“A special effect without a story is a pretty boring thing.”

George Lucas (1944) American film producer

Star Wars to Jedi: The Making of a Saga (1983) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ykmZp5cgbkU <br class="br">Context: One of the fatal mistakes that almost every science-fiction film makes is that they spend so much time on the settings — you know, creating the environment — that they spend film time on it. And you don't have to spend too much film time to create an environment. What they're doing is showing off the amount of work that they generated, and it slows the pace of the film down. And the story is not the settings. The story is the stories, plot. You're always surprised with characters, I mean in film it's even more dramatic than it is in writing, because eventually you actually take a real person and stick them into that character. And that real person brings with him, or her, an enormous package of reality. I mean, Threepio is just a hunk of plastic, and without Tony Daniels in there it just isn't anything at all. In the first film we had maybe 20 colors to paint with, and this time we've had 40 colors to paint with. Well, that doesn't mean it's going to be a better painting. Special effects are just a tool, a means of telling a story. People have a tendency to confuse them as an end to themselves. A special effect without a story is a pretty boring thing.

“I'm bored with it all.

- Last Words”

Winston S. Churchill (1874–1965) Prime Minister of the United Kingdom

“In many cases when a reader puts a story aside because it 'got boring,' the boredom arose because the writer grew enchanted with his powers of description and lost sight of his priority, which is to keep the ball rolling.”

Stephen King (1947) American author

Source: On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

“Caliph Vathek and his dark horde
Are bound for Hell, you won’t be bored!
Your faith in me will be restored—
Unless this token you find untoward
And my poor gift you have ignored.”

Cassandra Clare book Clockwork Prince

Source: Clockwork Prince

Faith, Hell

“Idleness, we are accustomed to say, is the root of all evil. To prevent this evil, work is recommended…. Idleness as such is by no means a root of evil; on the contrary, it is truly a divine life, if one is not bored….”

Sören Kierkegaard (1813–1855) Danish philosopher and theologian, founder of Existentialism

Source: Either/Or: A Fragment of Life

Life, Evil

“Only boring people are bored.”

Katherine Neville book The Eight

Source: The Eight

People

“After all, a woman didn't leave much behind in the world to show she'd been there. Even the children she bore and raised got their father's name. But her quilts, now that was something she could pass on.”

Sandra Dallas American writer

Children, World

“Show me a person who doesn't have a past and I'll show you a boring bastard”

Marian Keyes (1963) Irish writer

Source: Last Chance Saloon

Past, Personality

“To be a god can ultimately become boring and degrading. There'd be reason enough for the invention of free will! A god might wish to escape into sleep and be alive only in the unconscious projections of his dream-creatures.”

Frank Herbert (1920–1986) American writer

God, Dreams, Sleep

“We have to keep company with supposedly bad characters if we are to survive and not succumb to mental atrophy. People of good character, so called, are the ones who end up boring us to death.”

Thomas Bernhard book Extinction

Source: Extinction

Death, People

“A finished person is a boring person.”

Anna Quindlen (1952) journalist, Novelist

Personality

“I always think boredom is to some extent the fault of the bored.”

Kate Ross (1956–1998) Novelist, lawyer

Source: Cut to the Quick

Thinking

“It was life, often unsatisfying, frequently cruel, usually boring, sometimes beautiful, once in a while exhilarating.”

Stephen King Insomnia

Source: Insomnia

Life, Beauty

“Most people are blind to magic. They move through a blank and empty world. They’re bored with their lives, and there’s nothing they can do about it. They’re eaten alive by longing, and they’re dead before they die.”

Lev Grossman The Magicians

Source: The Magicians

People, World, Dead

“…. he said it was interesting. He used the word 'textured'. He said 'smooth' is boring but 'textured' was interesting, and the scar meant that I was stronger than whatever had tried to hurt me.”

Jeannette Walls book The Glass Castle

Source: The Glass Castle

Hurt

“… there are two ways to meet life; you may refuse to care until indifference becomes a habit, a defensive armor, and you are safe - but bored. Or you can care greatly, live greatly, until life breaks you on its wheel.”

Dorothy Canfield Fisher (1879–1958) American author and social activist

Life, Way, Indifference

“Somewhere in the crowd was at least one potential friend who'd understand the fundamental value of goofing off.
Because if not, how boring would that be?”

Alyson Nöel book Radiance

Source: Radiance

Understanding

“I would rather be confused for 10 minutes than bored for 5 seconds.”

Russell T. Davies (1963) Screenwriter, former executive producer of Doctor Who

“That’s why girls have boyfriends. So you have someone to take you to boring functions.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Fallen Angels

Source: City of Fallen Angels

Girl

“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. But then it occurred to me that musing is a pointless waste of anyone's time, and instead I went off to see if I could find a Baby Ruth candy bar, a far more profitable exercise.”

Bill Bryson (1951) American author

Source: The Lost Continent: Travels in Small-Town America (1989)

Life, Exercises, Question, Time

“Everything you say is boring and incomprehensible," she said, "but that alone doesn't make it true.”

Franz Kafka (1883–1924) author

"Description of a Struggle".
The Complete Stories (1971)

“I'd made it back to the land of the living. No matter how boring or mediocre a world it might be, this was it.”

Haruki Murakami book A Wild Sheep Chase

Source: A Wild Sheep Chase

World

“When people are bored, it is primarily with their own selves that they are bored.”

Eric Hoffer (1898–1983) American philosopher

People

“Of course I’ve gone mad with power! Have you ever tried going mad without power? It’s boring and no one listens to you!
— Russ Cargill”

Matt Groening (1954) American cartoonist

Madness

“There's only one thing more boring than listening to other people's dreams, and that's listening to their problems.”

Sue Townsend (1946–2014) English writer and humorist

Source: The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole, Aged 13 3/4

People, Dreams, Problem

“Sunsets we always liked because they only happen once and go away."
"But, Lena, that's sad."
"No, if the sunset stayed and we got bored, that would be a real sadness.”

Ray Bradbury book Dandelion Wine

Source: Dandelion Wine

Sadness

“You need to let the little things that would ordinarily bore you suddenly thrill you.”

Andy Warhol (1928–1987) American artist

“An autobiography is a book a person writes about his own life and it is usually full of all sorts of boring details.”

Roald Dahl book Boy

Source: Boy: Tales of Childhood

Life, Books, Personality

“I am hungry, feed me; I am bored, amuse me.”

Alexandre Dumas book The Count of Monte Cristo

Source: The Count of Monte Cristo

“The nice thing about being a celebrity is that if you bore people they think it's their fault.”

Henry Kissinger (1923–2023) United States Secretary of State

People, Thinking

“No man should go through life without once experiencing healthy, even bored solitude in the wilderness, finding himself depending solely on himself and thereby learning his true and hidden strength.”

Jack Kerouac book Lonesome Traveler

Lonesome Traveler (1960)
Context: No man should go through life without once experiencing healthy, even bored solitude in the wilderness, finding himself depending solely on himself and thereby learning his true and hidden strength. Learning for instance, to eat when he's hungry and sleep when he's sleepy.

Life, Solitude, Learning, Dependency

“All we really want is for no one to have a boring life, to be impressive, so we can be impressed. ~ on the friends we choose.”

Dave Eggers book A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius

Source: A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius

Life

“Shopping is actually very similar to farming a field. You can't keep buying the same thing, you have to have a bit of variety. Otherwise you get bored and stop enjoying yourself.”

Sophie Kinsella book The Secret Dreamworld of a Shopaholic

Source: Confessions of a Shopaholic

“I never thought meeting you would be this boring. I thought we'd put our Italian emotion into gear and scream the place down. I never expected indifference.”

Melina Marchetta book Looking for Alibrandi

Source: Looking for Alibrandi

Indifference

“Loveless work, boring work, work valued only because others haven't got even that much, however loveless and boring--this is one of the harshest human miseries.”

Wisława Szymborska (1923–2012) Polish writer

“Surely only boring people went in for conversations consisting of questions and answers. The art of true conversation consisted in the play of minds.”

Ved Mehta (1934) Indian writer

Source: All for Love

People, Art, Question

“I'm inclined to reserve all judgments, a habit that has opened up many curious natures to me and also made me the victim of not a few veteran bores.”

F. Scott Fitzgerald The Great Gatsby

Source: The Great Gatsby

Nature

“Boring damned people. All over the earth. Propagating more boring damned people. What a horror show. The earth swarmed with them.”

Charles Bukowski (1920–1994) American writer

People

“Vampires bore a grudge longer than any technically living creatures, and whenever they were in a bad temper, they expressed themselves through murder.”

Cassandra Clare (1973) American author

Source: Vampires, Scones, and Edmund Herondale

“I'm not often bored,' I assured her. "Life's not long enough for that.”

Agatha Christie book Murder in Mesopotamia

Source: Murder in Mesopotamia

Life

“I got bored," he says. "Besides, you know what's creepier than walking around your dead brothers' apartment? Sitting alone in a hearse in front of his apartment.”

Holly Black book Red Glove

Source: Red Glove

Dead

“Remember that the book which bores you when you are twenty or thirty will open doors for you when you are forty or fifty-and vise versa. Don’t read a book out of its right time for you.”

Doris Lessing (1919–2013) British novelist, poet, playwright, librettist, biographer and short story writer

Books, Time, Reading

“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 book The Town

Source: The Town

Love, Strong

“So what do you do? Really? (Kat)
Nothing. Really. It’s boring as hell. Artemis won’t allow me to bring anything here with me. No guitar. No Cartoon Network. Occasionally, I sneak a book in just to watch her wig out when she finds it. (Acheron)”

Sherrilyn Kenyon (1965) Novelist

Source: Devil May Cry

Books, Hell

“What is truly profound is thought to be stupid and trivial, or worse, boring, while what is actually stupid and trivial is thought to be profound. That is what it means to fly upside down.”

Dallas Willard (1935–2013) American philosopher

Source: The Divine Conspiracy: Rediscovering Our Hidden Life In God

Stupidity, Flying

“Life is better than death, I believe, if only because it is less boring, and because it has fresh peaches in it.”

Alice Walker (1944) American author and activist

Source: Home Girls: A Black Feminist Anthology

Life, Death

“Isn’t ‘not to be bored’ one of the principal goals of life?”

Gustave Flaubert (1821–1880) French writer (1821–1880)

Source: Flaubert in Egypt: A Sensibility on Tour

Life

“A woman who’s lived in a cage all her life. And hates it. Bored in there, aren’t you. Waiting for life to happen. And when it finally does, it steals from you what you loved most. So take back. Explode. Lash out. Blow up”

Karen Marie Moning (1964) author

Source: The Alpha Alternative: JZB Sex Scene

Love, Life, Hate, Waiting

“Hobbies of any kind are boring except to people who have the same hobby. This is also true of religion, although you will not find me saying so in print.”

Dave Barry (1947) American writer

People, Religion

“A true scientist is bored by knowledge; it is the assault on ignorance that motivates him - the mysteries that previous discoveries have revealed.”

Matt Ridley (1958) economist

Source: Genome: the Autobiography of a Species in 23 Chapters

Motivation, Knowledge

“You cannot drive with your eyes in the rear-view mirror… But dignity is difficult to maintain. Stamina requires constant upkeep. Repetition is boring. And you pay for grace.”

John Irving book Trying to Save Piggy Sneed

Source: Trying to Save Piggy Sneed

“It's remarkable how we go on year after year, doing the same old things. We get tired and bored, and ask when they'll come for us”

Yasunari Kawabata book The Sound of the Mountain

Source: The Sound of the Mountain

“there's a reason regular people don't appear on TV: we're boring.”

David Sedaris book Me Talk Pretty One Day

Source: Me Talk Pretty One Day

People, Appearance

“See I'm the reckless and wild one who saves him from being boring. It's why we're perfect for each other. We balance. - Madame Selena”

Sherrilyn Kenyon (1965) Novelist

Source: Seize the Night

Perfection

“People don't like being around despair. Our tolerance for the truly hopeless, for those who are irredeemably broken by life is strictly limited. The sob stories we like are the ones that end before we're bored.”

Salman Rushdie The Ground Beneath Her Feet

Source: The Ground Beneath Her Feet

Life, People, Despair

“The most boring thing in the entire world is nudity. The second most boring thing is honesty.”

Chuck Palahniuk book Invisible Monsters

Source: Invisible Monsters

World

“We were young. We were bored. And the old electroshock therapy machine was just under the stairs in a box next to the Hoover.”

Augusten Burroughs (1965) American writer

Source: Running With Scissors

Box

“I wanted to wake you straightaway, but I knew I had to wait several hours to ensure you were safely recovered."
"What! How long has it been?"
"Five minutes. I got bored.”

Jonathan Stroud book The Golem's Eye

Source: The Golem's Eye

Waiting

“Society is now one polish'd horde, Form'd of two mighty tribes, the Bores and Bored.”

George Gordon Byron (1788–1824) English poet and a leading figure in the Romantic movement

“Did perpetual happiness in the Garden of Eden maybe get so boring that eating the apple was justified?”

Chuck Palahniuk book Survivor

Source: Survivor

Happiness

“I don't use a crap camera, I don't eat junk, and I'm not going to a dance where the boys are bores”

Adriana Trigiani (1970) American film director

Source: Viola in Reel Life

Boy, Dance

“Never bored on a hoverboard.”

Scott Westerfeld (1963) American science fiction writer

“Jolie laide = "pretty ugly"
Draws you to it… bored into heart and mind.”

Justina Chen (1968) American writer

Source: North of Beautiful

Heart, Drawing

“Asil has appointed himself my guardian?" asked Charles softly. Asil was overstepping himself.

"He was bored, he told me," said his father. He gave Charles a small smile. "I have given him a job so he doesn’t get bored again.”

Patricia Briggs book Fair Game

Source: Fair Game

Smile

“Why do you think people cheat?," I asked.
"Because they're bored? Because they can? Because they're selfish and think they're entitled to anything they want? Because they don't think they'll get caught?”

Sarah Mlynowski (1977) Novelist

Source: Ten Things We Did

People, Thinking, Cheating, Selfishness

“If only Simon were here. He could probably bore you to sleep.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Bones

Source: City of Bones

Sleep

“… do you think God made the world to amuse himself because he was bored? Because if so he would have to be mean.”

Jack Kerouac book The Dharma Bums

Source: The Dharma Bums

God, World, Thinking

“You're probably the most boring teenager in the world.”

Nicholas Sparks book The Last Song

Source: The Last Song

World

“fire is beautiful
and we know that if we get
too close it will kill us
but what does that matter
it is better to be happy
for a moment
and be burned up with beauty
than to live a long time
and be bored all the while”

Don Marquis (1878–1937) American writer

Happiness, Beauty, Time

“I adored history, not the dry dates and boring battles, but the stories and the people who populated them.”

Deanna Raybourn (1968) American writer

Source: Silent in the Grave

People, History

“Bore, n. A person who talks when you wish him to listen.”

Ambrose Bierce (1842–1914) American editorialist, journalist, short story writer, fabulist, and satirist

The Devil's Dictionary (1911)
Source: The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary

Personality

“If you're bored, one thing is for sure: You're not following in the footsteps of Christ.”

Mark Batterson (1969) American pastor and writer

Source: In a Pit with a Lion on a Snowy Day: How to Survive and Thrive When Opportunity Roars

Christ

“That would be delightful,' agreed Flora, thinking how nasty and boring it would be.”

Stella Gibbons book Cold Comfort Farm

Source: Cold Comfort Farm

Thinking

“I abhor the idea of a perfect world. It would bore me to tears.”

Shelby Foote (1916–2005) Novelist, historian

World, Idea, Tear, Perfection

“unbroken happiness is a bore: it should have ups and downs.”

Molière (1622–1673) French playwright and actor

Happiness

“A bore or an uggo might manage not to get up anyone's nose, but if a girl's got brains and looks and personality, she's going to piss someone off, somewhere along the way.”

Tana French book Faithful Place

Source: Faithful Place

Way, Girl, Personality

“WE MUST DESTROY ALL PASSÉIST CLOTHES, and everything about them which is tight-fitting, colourless, funereal, decadent, boring and unhygienic. As far as materials are concerned, we must abolish: wishywashy, pretty-pretty, gloomy, and neutral colours, along with patterns composed of lines, checks and spots.”

Giacomo Balla (1871–1958) Italian artist

(Manuscript, 1913); as quoted at dekorera.tumblr: Futurist manifesto of men's clothing http://dekorera.tumblr.com/post/3212646425/futurist-manifesto-of-mens-clothing-by-giacomo <br class="br">Futurist Manifesto of Men's clothing,' 1913/1914

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