Boredom Quotes

He himself was almost never bored, and there was no man with whom it would have been a greater mista...

Before I shall have become a man again I shall probably exist as a park, a sort of natural park in w...

He is an old bore even the grave yawns for him.

When I have neither pleasure nor pain and have been breathing for a while the lukewarm insipid air o...

Boredom is fear's patience. Fear doesn't want to exaggerate. Only on occasion--and fear considers th...

Just as, at least in one religion, accidia is the first of the cardinal sins, so bordom, and particu...

I don't believe in an afterlife, so I don't have to spend my whole life fearing hell, or fearing hea...

Boredom is a fearsome prospect. There's a limit to the number of cars and microwaves you can buy. Wh...

Way far back in the beginning of the world was the whirlwind warning that we could all be blown away...

Good digestions, the gray monotony of provincial life, and the boredom—ah the soul-destroying boredo...

I took ten days off and by 11 o’clock on the first morning I had drunk fourteen cups of coffee, read...

I wore a groove in the kitchen floor with endless trips to the fridge, hoping against hope that I ha...

Boredom forces you to ring people you haven’t seen for eighteen years and halfway through the conver...

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

I always like routine. I suppose I never found boredom very boring.

Pensive they sit, and roll their languid eyes.

A healthy male adult bore consumes each year one and a half times his own weight in other people's p...

TV families and your own are hard to tell apart, except your isn't interrupted every six minutes by ...

Boredom presents a very real, if insidious peril. To quote Blaine Harden from the Washington post:“B...

The problem with making a virtual world of oneself is akin to the problem with projecting ourselves ...

Weeks passed like boats waiting to sail into the starless dawn, we were full of aimless endless dark...

The vacancy left by absence of worship is filled by mere killing of time and by boredom, which is di...

When hit by boredom, let yourself be crushed by it; submerge, hit bottom. In general, with things un...

Try to embrace, or let yourself be embraced by, boredom and anguish, which anyhow are larger than yo...

Some of the freckles I once loved are now closer to liver spots. But it’s still the eyes we look at,...

I’m bored’ is a useless thing to say. I mean, you live in a great, big, vast world that you’ve seen ...

I’m bored’ is a useless thing to say. I mean, you live in a great, big, vast world that you’ve seen ...

I’m bored’ is a useless thing to say. I mean, you live in a great, big, vast world that you’ve seen ...

I’m bored’ is a useless thing to say. I mean, you live in a great, big, vast world that you’ve seen ...

   "Fine! Fine! I'm listening...but it's not very interesting!...   "Oh, that's what you think! that...

If we allow our "high creativity" to remain alive, we will never be bored. We can pray, standing in ...

The glance embroiders in joy, knits in pain, and sews in boredom.When indifferent, the eye takes sti...

Soon, what was tedious was everything. 'Beautiful things, they're so tedious! Paintings, they're eno...

I am terrified of being bored.

Mama, I know you used to ride the bus. Riding the bus and it’s hot and bumpy and crowded and too noi...

I'm just not having a very good time and I don't have any reason to think it'll get anything but wor...

No. You can't. And I can't do anything either, about my life, to change it, make it better, make me ...

[…] without much ardor but quite unmistakably, she was writhing her hips as if she were dancing. Whe...

Give me boredom. At least I know where I'm going to eat and sleep tonight.

So life isn't exciting?" continued Gary. "Great. Give me boredom. At least I know where I'm going to...

Sometimes I think it is because we remember when we could smoke in pubs, and that we pull our phones...

The most costly disease is not cancer or coronaries. The most costly disease is boredom - costly for...

Boredom slays more of existence than war.

Poems should be like pins which prick the skin of boredom and leave a glow equal in its pride to the...

It is not uncommon for fighters’ camps to be gloomy. In heavy training, fighters live in dimensions ...

Many books are longer than they seem. They have indeed no end. The boredom that they cause is truly ...

I've had enough adventures," said Noxon, "to know that boredom is the closest thing to happiness. Bo...

Do you not hear the constant victory,in the human footraceof time, slow as fire,sure, and thick and ...

Boredom is rage spread thin.

The devil's name is dullness.

I fear the boredom that comes with not learning and not taking chances.

Boredom always precedes a period of great creativity.

My favorite cure for boredom is sleep. It's very easy to get to sleep when bored and very hard to ge...

I went on writing reviews for the newspaper, and critical articles crying out for a different approa...

There's nothing like impending death to rouse you from existential boredom.

Boredom is not far from bliss: it is bliss seen from the shores of pleasure.

What—in other words—would modern boredom be without terror? One of the most boring documents of all ...

Socrates tried to soothe us, true enough. He said there were only two possibilities. Either the soul...

Anyhow, I had found something out about an unknown privation, and I realized how a general love or c...

Boredom is the conviction that you can't change ... the shriek of unused capacities.

After much effort to live up to a glorious standard there came fatigue, wan hope, and boredom. I exp...

I abhor the idea of a perfect world. It would bore me to tears.

What kind of life can you have in a house without books?

- What do you expect? Think we were sent into the world to have a soft time and what is it? Float on...

I think boredom is the beginning of every authentic act. (...) Boredom opens up the space, for new e...

In the years since, I've discovered there's a lot to be said for boredom.

Those diversions sparked her life with momentary excitement. Without them, Charis felt she would be ...

He has returned from Italy a greater bore than ever he bores on architecture painting statuary an...

He has returned from Italy a greater bore than ever he bores on architecture painting statuary an...

How dreadful boredom is — how dreadfully boring; I know no stronger expression, no truer one, for li...

Boredom is the root of all evil. It is very curious that boredom, which itself has such a calm and s...

What a difference! Under the esthetic sky, everything is buoyant, beautiful, transient! when ethics ...

All men are bores. Surely no one will prove himself so great a bore as to contradict me in this. . ....

Dullness. Only humans could have invented it. What imaginations they had.

HUMAN BEINGS MAKE LIFE SO INTERESTING. DO YOU KNOW, THAT IN A UNIVERSE SO FULL OF WONDERS, THEY HAVE...

We did everything possible to keep up the spirits of the men, but it was exceedingly difficult becau...

The man who suspects his own tediousness has yet to be born.

But even those five-and-forty minutes were too long, the bored me --and boredom is the coldest thing...

But the boredom of Frau Spatz had by now reached that pitch where it distorts the countenance of man...

It is the lot of mankind to feel not only insecure but also bored. To combat that experience, people...

Nature is interested in only two things—to survive and to reproduce one like itself. Anything you su...

Something more terrible than a hell where one suffers may be imagined, and that is a hell where one ...

There's no excuse to be bored. Sad, yes. Angry, yes. Depressed, yes. Crazy, yes. But there's no excu...

The day, like the previous days, dragged sluggishly by in a kind of insipid idleness, devoid even of...

The secret of boring people lies in telling them everything.

Martin in particular concluded that man was born to live either in the convulsions of misery, or in ...

Our labour preserves us from three great evils -- weariness, vice, and want.

In any first-class work of art, you can find passages that in themselves are extremely boring, but t...

Boredom is the dream bird that hatches the egg of experience. A rustling in the leaves drives him aw...

This process of assimilation, which takes place in depth, requires a state of relaxation that is bec...

Some people can stay longer in an hour than others can in a week.

We may be willing to tell a story twice never to hear it more than once.

Boredom was at the root of Lazare's unhappiness, an oppressive, unremitting boredom, exuding from ev...

I would rather die of passion than of boredom.

I suppose, like most young people nowadays, boredom is what you dread most in the world, and yet, I ...

Our feelings of anxiety are genuine but confused signals that something is amiss, and so need to be ...

To grow interested in any piece of information, we need somewhere to 'put' it, which means some way ...

But the answer isn't just to intimidate people into consuming more 'serious' news; it is to push so-...

What we colloquially call 'feeling bored' is just the mind, acting out of a self-preserving reflex, ...

You don't usually think of boredom as something similar to pain. That's because you've only been exp...