Listless Bored Quotes & Sayings

My nervous system is a shattered wreck, and I am absolutely bored and listless save when I come upon something which peculiarly interests me. — H.P. Lovecraft

The difference between wisdom and foolishness lies within our dreams. To spend all day dreaming, instead of working to reach our dreams is pointless. — Jose N. Harris

In adult centers the nerve paths are something fixed, ended, immutable. Everything may die, nothing may be regenerated. — Santiago Ramon Y Cajal

Paper has more patience than people.' I thought of this saying on one of those days when I was feeling a little depressed and was sitting at home with my chin in my hands, bored and listless, wondering whether to stay in or go out. I finally stayed where I was, brooding. Yes, paper does have more patience, and since I'm not planning to let anyone else read this stiff-backed notebook grandly referred to as a 'diary', unless I should ever find a real friend, it probably won't make a bit of difference. — Anne Frank

How do you like your drones now, asshole?" Nearby, — Daniel Suarez

My upbringing made me think that real legitimate music is written, not heard. — Dan Fogelberg

The leader of the past was a person who knew how to tell. The leader of the future will be a person who knows how to ask. — Peter Drucker

I have named the destroyers of nations: comfort, plenty, and security - out of which grow a bored and slothful cynicism, in which rebellion against the world as it is, and myself as I am, are submerged in listless self-satisfaction. — John Steinbeck

Any attempt to break with the past, or with existing social structures, is a failure if it leads to a bored, listless, and colourless style of life; assertive and enduring innovation, like the mastering of a new environment, requires the confidence and discipline which are founded on exuberant emotions. — John Carroll

Nobody's home. Don't answer the door during working hours unless you're waiting for a special delivery. Use a peephole if you need to know. — Eileen Roth

I am only about half alive a large part of my strength is consumed in sitting up or walking. My nervous system is a shattered wreck, and I am absolutely bored & listless save when I come upon something which peculiarly interests me. However so many things do interest me, & interest me intensely, in science, history, philosophy, & literature; that I have never actually desired to die, or entertained any suicidal designs, as might be expected of one with so little kinship to the ordinary features of life. — H.P. Lovecraft