Bored Quotes

“Lucien studied the wine in his goblet. "You don’t hold on to power by being everyone’s friend. And among the faeries, lesser and High Fae alike, a firm hand is needed. We’re too powerful, and too bored with immortality, to be checked by anything else.”
― Sarah J. Maas, A Court of Thorns and Roses

“See, my aim is not to survive but to be thrown to the wolfs with adrenaline still pumping in my veins and hear the gods laughing saying ”that was one hell of a youth” and everything I do I do in order to push my senses and levels of natural ecstasy. I want to be so awake that I pass out by exhaustion every night with a smile on my face and no thoughts of tomorrow because today was all I ever could make of it and I am sick and tired of boredom. Bored people slumbering boring words about bored habits and I want to get out.”
― Charlotte Eriksson

“A bored Gwenvael is an entire town
destroyed accidently.”
― G.A. Aiken, About a Dragon

“Something more terrible than a hell where one suffers may be imagined, and that is a hell where one is bored.”
― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

“If you are bored, you’re doing yourself a tremendous disservice. Open your mind, break-free from your conditioned routine, and reignite the flames of excitement and discover.”
― Steve Maraboli, Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience

“Before you get bored of yourself try creativity in your life.”
― Amit Kalantri

“You bore me”
― Robert Bresson

“He had never got so much back for himself from any pupil as he did from Miss Kronborg. From the first she had stimulated him; something in her personality invariably affected him. Now that he was feeling his way toward her voice, he found her more interesting than ever before. She lifted the tedium of the winter for him, gave him curious fancies and reveries. Musically, she was sympathetic to him. Why this was true, he never asked himself. He had learned that one must take where and when one can the mysterious mental irritant that rouses one's imagination; that it is not to be had by order. She often wearied him, but she never bored him.”
― Willa Cather, The Song of the Lark

“Bercelak’s kin kept themselves busy by sharpening weapons, reading, talking, or setting things on fire with small bursts of flame.”
― G.A. Aiken

“Never believe a friend who offered you his friendship just because he was getting bored.”
― Amit Kalantri

“There is a lot to do in life than to get bored with.”
― M.F. Moonzajer, LOVE, HATRED AND MADNESS

“Don't let yourself get bored. Exist to question; question your existence.”
― Doug Cooper, Outside In

“Whatever you do, just find an excuse to win!”
― Unknown Navy SEAL Drill Sergeant

“A guilty conscience pushed me to try harder—which I did for what seemed like a tremendous amount of wasted time, staring bug-eyed at uncooperative pencils. What was missing? The answer seemed obvious—intense emotional incentive. But at the moment I didn’t feel desperate or angry or afraid. Just severely bored out of my mind and guilt-ridden for feeling so mind-numbingly bored."

—from "Phantom's Veil”
― Richelle E. Goodrich

“Sit there and look pretty.”
― Hissa AlBoot AlShehhi

“Thinking minds doesn't get bored.”
― Amit Kalantri

“You don’t command your plate to provide you with food and it does. And you don’t have to get bored if it doesn't. Whatever has to drop into the plate must pass through your head!”
― Israelmore Ayivor, Daily Drive 365