Boredom Quotes

Time seems irrelevant except for the fact that I am bored and these hours alone are endless.

Harry Tasker: — What did you need?
Helen Tasker: — I needed to feel alive. I just wanted to do something outrageous. And it felt really good to be needed. And to be trusted. And to be special. It's just that there's so much I wanted to do with this life and it's like I haven't done any of it. And the sand's running out of the hourglass and I wanted to be able to look back and say «See? I did that! I was reckless and I was wild and I fucking did it!».

True Lies

Harry Tasker

I would rather die of passion than of boredom.

Catherine comes into her room after a shower with a basket of laundry in her hands, and Patrick is lying on her bed.
— Hi.
Catherine drops the basket in fright.
— Oh my God, you scared the bejesus out of me.
Patrick gets out of bed and walks over to Catherine.
— I missed you.
— What are you... What are you doing here?
— Aren't you going to say hello?
Patrick pulls Catherine to him and kisses her.
— Hello. You've got to go now. If my dad finds you here, he'll send me to convent, and I have a real problem with organized religion.

10 Things I Hate About You

Patrick Verona

Katarina "Kat" Stratford

Life is pretty cheap,
It’s sold a decade at a time.
Life is pretty cheap
It’s so easy to find
Life is pretty cheap
There’s really nothing new.
Life is pretty cheap
Except for the cold delirious few.

All I want... is to get through the day. That's what I think about. Just get through the day.

Nothin's a drag.

– Hello! Jo! Come over here!... You too, Meg! It's dead as tombs around here.
– Mr. Laurence! One doesn't shout at ladies as if they were cattle.

Little Women

Theodore "Laurie" Lawrence

— It'd be easy for a man in my line of work to become cynical on the subject of relationships. <...> Lola, I prefer to keep my work life and my private life separate. It keeps things simple.
— Simple is boring.
— Boring is safe.
— And safe is for old people. This is fun, want to keep going?
— «But you see, romance is my greatest ally. That makes people vulnerable. Distracts it, and utterly idiotic».

My father used to tell me that boredom indicates a lack of inner resources.

I bet you get bored, don't you? I know you do. A man like you. So clever. But what's the point of being clever if yo can't prove it? Still the addict. But this... this is what you're really addicted to. You'll do anything... anything at all, to stop being bored.

Explanation:

Swallowing pills

— During the seven months that you lived with Miss Usher did she have any callers?
— She never had any.
— Do you mean to say that she had no friends... men or women?
— I never saw any. She never even had a date; she never even got any phone calls. I used to tell her, "Faith, that's no way to live just crawling around like a worm like that."