716 Quotes About Boredom

I sat in airport hell wondering once again why there is nothing to do in airports. Why hasn’t some enterprising genius yet realized all us bored ticket holders would adore, flock to, pay hard cash for any diversions that lasted longer than a cruise through the magazine racks or dull necktie store?

Being condemned as boring is the worst thing, isn’t it? If someone calls you an arsehole you can work on being less of one. If a boring person tries to be interesting … they’re probably just being more boring

Alice used to say the whole problem of life lay in getting past what she called the "times between." ~ 150, SA: Sh. Stories, 1962

The adults forgot to tell the kids there isn't much to do,That all this free time is quite hard to get through.You can read a nice novel and paint something new,But those activities are actually pretty isolating too.That's why we glance over at red lights, curious if others feel it too.

…I was merely a disinterested spectator at the Banquet of Life.

You know there isn’t much to do in life once you fall though the surface of things.

She was thinking of the advantages she would have if only she were someone else.

I was sunk deep in my middle age. All the same I laid my head against her breast. ‘I have been happy,’ I said, ‘but I have seen so bored for so long.

To find love is to escape being single. To find sensuality is to escape being bored.