{"quotes":[{"text":"NOT UNTIL I MET YOUNot until I felt your sunshine,Did I realize that I had been in the shade.Not until I saw all your colors,Did I realize that mine had faded.Not until I heard your dreams,Did I realize that I was still sleeping.And not until I experienced my life with you,Did I realize that I was barelyBreathing.","author":"Suzy Kassem","tags":["alive","bored","boredom","breathing","colors","complete","completeness","dying","finding-love","fire","flame","life","living","love","love-letter-shade","lover","mate","new-dreams","purpose","relationships","sleeping","soul-mate","soulmate","sunshine","twin","whole"],"id":2574,"author_id":"Suzy+Kassem"},{"text":"We sometimes reveal how ignorant or bored we were when we read a book by giving it 5-stars.","author":"Mokokoma Mokhonoana","tags":["amwriting","aphorism","aphorisms","book-club","book-review","book-reviews","books","bored","boredom","ignorance","ignorant","literature","reading","review","reviews","subjective","subjectivity","writers","writing"],"id":3237,"author_id":"Mokokoma+Mokhonoana"},{"text":"Punctuality is the virtue of the bored.","author":"Evelyn Waugh","tags":["bored","virtue","punctuality "],"id":17311,"author_id":"Evelyn+Waugh"},{"text":"Lucien studied the wine in his goblet. 'You don’t hold on to power by being everyone’s friend. And among the faeries, lesser and High Fae alike, a firm hand is needed. We’re too powerful, and too bored with immortality, to be checked by anything else.","author":"Sarah J. Maas","tags":["bored","faeries","freyre","high-fae","immortality","lucien","power","powerful"],"id":27352,"author_id":"Sarah+J.+Maas"},{"text":"I always think boredom is to some extent the fault of the bored.","author":"Kate Ross","tags":["bored","boredom"],"id":42456,"author_id":"Kate+Ross"},{"text":"He had never got so much back for himself from any pupil as he did from Miss Kronborg. From the first she had stimulated him; something in her personality invariably affected him. Now that he was feeling his way toward her voice, he found her more interesting than ever before. She lifted the tedium of the winter for him, gave him curious fancies and reveries. Musically, she was sympathetic to him. Why this was true, he never asked himself. He had learned that one must take where and when one can the mysterious mental irritant that rouses one's imagination; that it is not to be had by order. She often wearied him, but she never bored him.","author":"Willa Cather","tags":["bored","imagination","pupil","student","teacher"],"id":43796,"author_id":"Willa+Cather"},{"text":"That was what it felt like - as if one had always been in that place and never been bored although nothing had ever happened.","author":"C.S. Lewis","tags":["bored","feeling","forest"],"id":48562,"author_id":"C.S.+Lewis"},{"text":"Bercelak’s kin kept themselves busy by sharpening weapons, reading, talking, or setting things on fire with small bursts of flame.","author":"G.A. Aiken","tags":["bored","family","humor","waiting"],"id":49521,"author_id":"G.A.+Aiken"},{"text":"You might be an introvert if you were ready to go home before you left the house.","author":"Criss Jami","tags":["anti-social","anti-social-instincts","antisocial","antisocial-instincts","bored","drained","energy","extroversion","extrovert","funny","funny-but-true","home","homebody","house","humor","instincts","introversion","introvert","loner","partying","peace","personality","quiet","quiet-time","recharge","rest","restoration","shy","sleepy","social","tired","traits"],"id":53537,"author_id":"Criss+Jami"},{"text":"A guilty conscience pushed me to try harder—which I did for what seemed like a tremendous amount of wasted time, staring bug-eyed at uncooperative pencils. What was missing? The answer seemed obvious—intense emotional incentive. But at the moment I didn’t feel desperate or angry or afraid. Just severely bored out of my mind and guilt-ridden for feeling so mind-numbingly b.","author":"Richelle E. Goodrich","tags":["bored","boredom","guilty-conscience","gwen","phantom-s-veil","richelle","richelle-e-goodrich","richelle-goodrich"],"id":63301,"author_id":"Richelle+E.+Goodrich"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":53,"pages":6,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}