I was perfectly happy in my boring life before you came along.
—Elizabeth Gilbert in Love
A bore is a man who deprives you of solitude without providing you with company.
—Gian Vincenzo Gravina
Every hero becomes a bore at last.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson
For a relationship to stay alive, love alone is not enough. Without imagination, love stales into sentiment, duty, boredom. Relationships fail not because we have stopped loving but because we first stopped imagining.
—James Hillman
The capacity of human beings to bore one another seems to be vastly greater than that of any other animal.
—H. L. Mencken
I was bored. Sad. Lonely. It was only a matter of time before I cracked.
—Sarah Dessen in The Truth About Forever
The nice thing about being a celebrity is that when you bore people, they think it's their fault.
—Henry Kissinger
Bore, n.: A person who talks when you wish him to listen.
—Ambrose Bierce
A finished person is a boring person.
—Anna Quindlen
A bore is a man who, when you ask him how he is, tells you.
—Bert Leston Taylor
All God does is watch us and kill us when we get boring. We must never, ever be boring.
—Chuck Palahniuk
The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity.
—Dorothy Parker
Good-bye. I am leaving because I am bored.
—George Saunders
The secret of being boring is to say everything.
—Voltaire
Life is as tedious as a twice-told tale
Vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man.
—William Shakespeare