73 Quotes About Boring

There are few things that are more annoying than being bored, but of course it doesn’t have to be this way. Once you’ve identified how boring your life can be, you can start making changes to spice it up. Everyone has the potential of being interesting and exciting, so start giving it a try today! Check out these inspiring, funny, and clever quotes that can help you find things to do that are more interesting than sitting around doing nothing.

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I choose to write because it's perfect for me. It's an escape, a place I can go to hide. It's a friend, when I feel out casted from everyone else. It's a journal, when the only story I can tell is my own. It's a book, when I need to be somewhere else. It's control, when I feel so out of control. It's healing, when everything seems pretty messed up. And it's fun, when life is just flat-out boring. Alysha Speer
Being bored is the price we pay for not being...
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Being bored is the price we pay for not being insane. Mokokoma Mokhonoana
There is no such thing as a boring person when...
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There is no such thing as a boring person when you are lonely or extremely bored. Mokokoma Mokhonoana
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On building homes for fallen angels: When I was small - I sought a home, a place to go and rest my bones. Then founded something, of my own, I lived among the restless stones. If seeking leads you back to evil, what good is that, I asked a weevil. He said a home is what you make, it can't be real, if it is fake.. And if you wait instead of seek, will you find love, or something bleak? I know (myself) for I have found, a beauty, hidden — in a sound. Waiting is boring. And so is exploring. A smile is sometimes all it takes. And then your whole world simply breaks. Will Advise
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You had me believing that I was crazy. Every time I broke down over what seemed like nothing, it was you.’ Bade ran an anxious hand through his hair.‘ Well, that’s love isn’t it?’ Davina took his restless hand. ‘Love is crazy and irrational, and anything less would be boring. Moryah DeMott
The only activity a cynic will find contagious is yawning,...
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The only activity a cynic will find contagious is yawning, that is, with other people, at other people. Criss Jami
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I believe my life has a value, and i don't want to waste it thinking about clothing. I don't want to think about what i will wear in the morning. Truly, can you imagine anything more boring than fashion? Michael Crichton
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The boring thing with taking a walk with someone is that your thoughts are then dictated by the subject or subjects of your conversation and that is made worse by the fact that most sane people are terrified of silence whenever they are with or near someone. Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Some people are still alive only because they find being...
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Some people are still alive only because they find being dead more boring than being alive. Mokokoma Mokhonoana
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Maybe if everything was beautiful, nothing would be. People saw one thing, they swooned over it. They saw this other thing, they pounded it with sticks. Maybe there had to be variety for life to work. Swoon over everything, you get bored. Beat everything with a stick-boring. Dean Koontz
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It's 4am again and I'm just getting started. People are boring and I want to burn with excitement or anger and bleed, bleed through my words. I want to get all fucked up and write real and raw and ugly and beautifully. I bet you're sleeping safe and calm, and you can stay there, it's safer there, and you wouldn't stand one night on this journey my mind wanders off to every night you close your eyes. I'll stay here one day and I will never come down. I promise I can fly before I hit the ground. It doesn't even hurt anymore. I swear, it doesn't hurt. Charlotte Eriksson
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The extent of creativity to which I admire in an individual is his ability to be richly creative while still, in a way, telling the truth. It is the fool who creates only his own lies, and the bore who simply repeats what he is told. Criss Jami
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Seriousness is too boring to the playful human condition. A heart of stone that has a long face can never express love. Michael Bassey Johnson
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One minute with a silent spirit of self-knowledge is enough to align you to put smiles on the face of the boring world. The world needs you! Yes it does! Israelmore Ayivor
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Reality can be very boring. Amy Neftzger
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Before you get bored of yourself try creativity in your life. Amit Kalantri
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Never believe a friend who offered you his friendship just because he was getting bored. Amit Kalantri
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People fear nothing as much as boredom and they will do unimaginable things to make it go away. Amit Kalantri
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Be bold, don't be boring. Amit Kalantri
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Children can create fun out of nothing and when this great talent is lost you become a boring creature which is called adult! Mehmet Murat Ildan
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Many great people had been considered to be boring, like Nigel Mansell, but anyone who had read the racing driver’s autobiography, "Clutch Down, Dick Out", would know that perception was way off the mark. Mark Jackman
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All this happened in much less time than it takes to tell, since I am trying to interpret for you into slow speech the instantaneous effect of visual impressions. Joseph Conrad
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Writing is a form of art. Do not use New Times Roman or Arial because it's boring and hackneyed. Natalya Vorobyova
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Kipster is a perfectly valid word, ” Wendy argued, about to write down her score on the little notepad that had come with the game. “Okay, so what does it mean?” Mandy wanted to know. Wendy struggled to come up with an answer, and finally just changed the subject with school gossip. Mandy found herself just ignoring it… it always sounded the same, the same events, same rumors, same secrets, same affairs, but never anything of interest to her.“ Well Sarah’s on drugs again and that’s why she did it in Mario’s backseat, but now she might be pregnant, oh, and that messed-up Seth kid’s been cutting himself again so he was sent away to Halifax last week, and there’s a festival in Wolfville but Kathy won’t go because Audrey-Rose is going to be there and they hate each other, and….” Mandy had learned two years ago to detach herself from gossip; she’d learned it from Jud’s death. Wendy may have been eighteen years old but she could be immature on the best of days. Rebecca McNutt
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You are not walking slow enough, when taking a walk, if you do not come across as bored or depressed (to the average sane person). Mokokoma Mokhonoana
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Success and failure can both make you lose appetite and concentration, don't let it bother or over-excite you, just think them away as a mere thing that had just happened, and get along with your life. Michael Bassey Johnson
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He sought an adventure but didn't find one. He was inexperienced and besides he didn't have too much imagination. Raymond Queneau
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Some friends are like sunny days, with false flames, oozing from afar, coming near without a dime. Michael Bassey Johnson
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I've finally decided to write about profit for a change But before I really started I already started to feel lame Baby what's it to a beast who manely to money remains untamed Criss Jami
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If you are idle, ask “why?” If you feel like life is boring for you, ask “why?” When you get into a disappointment, ask “why?” Even if you come out of all torments and disturbances, ask “why? Israelmore Ayivor
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Perhaps a seemingly dull, boring person is not a person who lacks personality, but rather a person with so much personality most other things bore them. Criss Jami
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Don’t be like so many writers, don’t be like so many thousands ofpeople who call themselves writers, don’t be dull and boring andpretentious, don’t be consumed with self-love.the libraries of the world haveyawned themselves tosleepover your kind.don’t add to that.don’t do it. Charles Bukowski
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Some people in orthodox churches in Africa take poverty as a path that leads to heaven, making christianity look unattractive. Michael Bassey Johnson
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Many writers make the mistake of making their readers appear like Lazarus, without any iota of care, throwing down books to readers to crunch as if they are dogs. Michael Bassey Johnson
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I should think a dead language would be rather boring, sociallyspeaking. Sol Luckman
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... even though it was beautiful and comfortable, and even though it was the world, it was also a little bit boring. No, wait. Maybe boring isn’t the right word. What’s the word I’m wanting here? Lonely. That’s it. It was a little bit lonely. Catherine Ryan Hyde
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Just as the unwanted pregnancy, there are unwanted people in your life you should strive to abort, and such abortion is not sin, nor harm, but the eradication of a destructive foetus. Michael Bassey Johnson
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One who gossips usually carries boredom in one hand and bitterness in the other. Suzy Kassem
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Intelligence arouses fear and respect, the lack of it keeps one on the narrow minded road of disrespect, stupidity and inferiority complex. Michael Bassey Johnson
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Bored with the upsetting realities of the day? Then leave yourself to the calming mysteries of the night! Mehmet Murat Ildan
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If it weren't for problems, life would be perfect and boring. Richard Linville
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Drinking is such a necessity to human life that people cannot fathom an individual who, like a child confined to a church pew, gets little enjoyment out of it and would rather do other things. Criss Jami
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Normality is the new eccentric. Criss Jami
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Boring is a syndrome of being to simple. Deyth Banger
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Your pony, he said as he stomped toward me. "I'm the farrier who is here to fix your pony."" I thought you were a Hells Angel, " I said." I used to be, " he replied. "But fighting all the time and being really drunk and nasty got boring. So now I just take care of animals. Jack Gantos
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Envy of other people shows how they are unhappy. Their continual attention to others behavior shows how they are boring. Seneca
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We are almost always bored by just those whom we must not find boring. Unknown
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The boring thing about being interesting is that you bore boring people. Mokokoma Mokhonoana
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You know you’re not perfect and that’s good. Perfect is boring. You have a lot to offer. A lot more to experience and so many things to learn. There are more pages to fill up so act your age. Diana Rose Morcilla
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Humor has become so cliche and boring that nothing's funny anymore unless it involves something totally disgusting that offends somebody or makes them feel really uncomfortable. Tom DeLonge
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I find any sort of acting that doesn't have any humor in it is mind-numbingly boring. 'Serious acting' is the kind of acting that I don't ever respond to. Andrew Scott
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I find any sort of acting that doesn't have any humor in it is mind-numbingly boring. Andrew Scott
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Success is boring... failure is exciting and more entertaining. Anupam Kher
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Each year, thousands of UFOs are sighted and reported, which is an impressive tally of unidentified aerial phenomena. Surveys show that roughly one-third of the populace believes that at least some of this sky show is due to extraterrestrial spacecraft, here to probe our airspace and, when that proves boring, our bodies. Seth Shostak
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The real story of Facebook is just that we've worked so hard for all this time. I mean, the real story is actually probably pretty boring, right? I mean, we just sat at our computers for six years and coded. Mark Zuckerberg
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Writing is boring, very boring, and it takes so much patience. Ingmar Bergman
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I don't have a lot of patience for boring arthouse movies. Zoe Kazan
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Morning Joe was boring. Scarborough is neither eloquent nor funny. Alec Baldwin
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Without question, students need to practice, review, and drill skills, but they should do so only in the spirit of working toward more complex mastery of those skills. Redundant drill of skills is inherently boring and insulting to the learner, and it is one of the most effective methods for turning students off to learning. Heidi Hayes Jacobs
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The good thing about flying solo is it's never boring. Steve Fossett
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In India, there is a psychological problem that movies going to film festivals are boring. It is a problem with exhibitors. Anurag Kashyap
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It gets so boring at home. After all, how many reruns of Abbott and Costello movies can a guy watch on television? Bud Abbott
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I think marriage is a boring and fault-ridden contractual obligation. Henry Rollins
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Trust the Canadians to produce a game about mutual funds that is actually more boring than the real thing. Alex Berenson
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Perfect is boring: Beauty is irregular. Gloria Steinem
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You know, I'm just a very boring, not very funny person in person. I don't feel pressured to be otherwise. Lorrie Moore
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Politics is a strong and slow boring of hard boards. Max Weber
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To sit with a dog on a hillside on a glorious afternoon is to be back in Eden, where doing nothing was not boring - it was peace. Milan Kundera
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In 1998, it was possible to make a big-screen romantic comedy about email. Yep, email - the same medium we often think of now as boring and even annoying. Walt Mossberg
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The most boring scenes are the scenes where a character is alone. Chuck Palahniuk
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Even if it's your wedding, if you're a guy, it's boring. Blake Shelton
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An author is a fool who, not content with boring those he lives with, insists on boring future generations. Charles De Montesquieu