John Lennon Quotes

Is boredom anything less than the sense of one's faculties slowly dying?

If I'm not doing anything, I get really antsy and bored.

We wait. We are bored. (He throws up his hand.) No, don't protest, we are bored to death, there's no denying it. Good. A diversion comes along and what do we do? We let it go to waste. Come, let's get to work! (He advances towards the heap, stops in his stride.) In an instant all will vanish and we'll be alone more, in the midst of nothingness!

Sometimes, when you're really depressed, all you want to do is nothing. All you want to do is lean your head on your arm, and stare into space. Sometimes this can go on for hours. If you're unusually depressed, you may have to change arms.

Sitting and waiting for something to happen was the worst kind of torture.

I hope I don't just sit around moping for two years.

Perhaps there is no agony worse than the tedium I experienced waiting for Something to Happen.

I can imagine few things more trying to the patience than the long wasted days of waiting.

This was in '79. I got pretty restless there, sitting around with a lot of people sitting around smoking cigarettes and talking about films, but nobody really doing anything.

I feel monotony and death to be almost the same.

Long-term boredom can't lead to anything good.

I can only be so long without work before I start getting antsy.

The man for whom time stretches out painfully is one waiting in vain, disappointed at not finding tomorrow already continuing yesterday.

I have just gotten to the point where I have been very, very disgusted with the fact that nothing is going on down there.

I realised in 1985, after sitting for months and being very down, that I have to move. I have to be busy. Because, otherwise, it is like being in a waiting room. And waiting for what?

This is the hardest part for me. Just the waiting - the waiting to fight. The work has all been done, and you just have to wait.

I always rate a convention by the lack of blisters from twiddling my thumbs.

I'm not a patient person and sitting around the house waiting to get back to WWE does me no good.

War for most men is not fighting or marching in parades. It is sitting around somewhere wondering what the hell you are supposed to be doing.

What's the use of watching? A watched pot never boils.

No, I slept as I always do when I am bored and have not the courage to amuse myself, or when I am hungry and have not the desire to eat.--The Count of Monte Cristo

You just sit home and masturbate. The phone is going to ring soon, but you just can't wait.

All that was left for me was a terrible kind of paralysis, this waiting game, this heartbreak game.

Waiting is the rust of the soul.