bored Quotes

“Being steeped in the process of learning and exploring keeps me from becoming too nervous. Partly it's about not getting bored.”

“The penalty of success is to be bored by the attentions of people who formerly snubbed you.”

“It is commonly supposed that the art of pleasing is a wonderful aid in the pursuit of fortune but the art of being bored is infinitely more successful.”

“The wise person often shuns society for fear of being bored.”

“I tried for a while to be an agricultural worker and was hopelessly bored. To me it was meaningless. I would stand around in heaps of manure and sings about the beauty of the work I wasn't doing.”

“Idle people are often bored and bored people, unless they sleep a lot, are cruel. It is not accident that boredom and cruelty are great preoccupations in our time.”

“Society is now one polished horde, Formed of two mighty tribes, the Bores and the Bored.”