One out of three hundred and twelve Americans is a bore… and a healthy male adult bore consumes each year one and a half times his own weight in other people’s patience.
Boredom - Boring Quotes
Dullness has depth.
To do the same thing over and over is not only boredom; it is to be controlled by rather than to control what you do.
Today’s kids learn from the time they are two that, if something bores you, you push the buttons on the remote control. Zap it. Fast forward it. Change the channel. Reset the game. Load new software.
Boredom results from a deficit of sensory responsiveness to the external world.
I fell asleep reading a dull book and dreamed I kept on reading, so I awoke from sheer boredom.
No one really listens to anyone else, and if you try it for a while you will see why.
Miss Searle had always considered boredom an intellectual defeat.
When people are bored, it is primarily with their own selves that they are bored.
The capacity of human beings to bore one another seems to be vastly greater than that of any other animals. Some of their most esteemed inventions have no other apparent purpose, for example, the dinner party of more than two, the epic poem, and the science of metaphysics.
