Boredom Quotes

It is hard not to see into the future, faced with today's blind architecture - a thousand times more...

Actually, I jade very quickly. Once is usually enough. Either once only, or every day. If you do som...

You need to let the little things that would ordinarily bore you suddenly thrill you.

He was prepared to die for it, as one of Baudelaire's dandies might have been prepared to kill himse...

Any idiot can face a crisis - it's this day-to-day living that wears you out.

Ivanov: With a heavy head, with a slothful spirit, exhausted, overstretched, broken, without faith, ...

Borkin: Ladies and gentlemen, why are you so glum? Sitting there like a jury after it's been sworn i...

We just philosophize, complain of boredom, or drink vodka. It's so clear, you see, that if we're to ...

Going to see plays isn't what you people should do. Try looking at yourselves a little more often an...

The worst part of being a driver is that you have hours to yourself while waiting for your employer....

The man who begins to go to bed forty minutes before he opens his bedroom door is bored; that is to ...

...a well-stocked mind is safe from boredom.

My correspondence has certainly the charm of variety, and the humbler are usually the more interesti...

My mind is like a racing engine, tearing itself to pieces because it is not connected up with the wo...

My mind rebels at stagnation. Give me problems, give me work, give me the most abstruse cryptogram, ...

Almost all human affairs are tedious. Everything is too long. Visits dinners concerts plays spee...

The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom.

If at any moment Time stays his hand, it is only when we are delivered over to the miseries of bored...

Life swings like a pendulum backward and forward between pain and boredom.

If life — the craving for which is the very essence of our being — were possessed of any positive in...

Boredom is certainly not an evil to be taken lightly: it will ultimately etch lines of true despair ...

What keeps all living things busy and in motion is the striving to exist. But when existence is secu...

Something doing every minute' may be a gesture of despair--or the height of a battle against boredom...

A child develops best when, like a young plant, he is left undisturbed in the same soil. Too much tr...

Boredom is a vital problem for the moralist since at least half the sins of mankind are caused by t...

Boredom is essentially a thwarted desire for events, not necessarily pleasant ones, but just occurre...

Boredom is therefore a vital problem for the moralist, since at least half the sins of mankind are c...

All great books contain boring portions, and all great lives have contained uninteresting stretches....

The days hardened with cold and boredom like last year's loaves of bread. One began to cut them with...

The chief product of an automated society is a widespread and deepening sense of boredom.

The mixture of the grotesque and the tragic is agreeable to the spirit, as are discords to the jaded...

Nothing is as tedious as the limping days,When snowdrifts yearly cover all the ways,And ennui, sour ...

Life wore a man out, wore a man thin.Tomorrow would be a better day.

Sir Leicester is generally in a complacent state, and rarely bored. When he has nothing else to do, ...

Lady Dedlock is always the same exhausted deity, surrounded by worshippers, and terribly liable to b...

My heart almost died within me; miserable longings strained its chords. How long were the September ...

...I remember a rainy, depressing afternoon when she remarked 'What a pity we can't make love, there...

Did perpetual happiness in the Garden of Eden maybe get so boring that eating the apple was justifie...

Abaratians are very much about living in the moment; living life because that's what we've got, we'v...

Never underestimate the determination of a kid who is time-rich and cash-poor.

She, who was bored almost to agony, and who had nothing at all to do, she had not time to think even...

Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work youbelieve in with all your heart, live ...

Boredom is a pleasing antidote for fear

What if there was something essentially wrong with Claude Sylvanshine that wasn't wrong with other p...

To me, at least in retrospect, the really interesting question is why dullness proves to be such a p...

Bliss—a-second-by-second joy and gratitude at the gift of being alive, conscious—lies on the other s...

This is the kind of paradox, I think, of what it is to be a halfway intelligent American right now, ...

Then he looked up, despite all best prior intentions. In four minutes, it would be another hour; a h...

I find her anecdotes more efficacious than sheep-counting, rain on a tin roof, or alanol tablets.......

And for all the richest and most successful merchants life inevitably became rather dull and niggly,...

He who seeks rest finds boredom. He who seeks work finds rest.

When people are bored, it is primarily with their own selves that they are bored.

When people are bored it is primarily with their own selves.

I became bored - that was all. Boredom, which is another name and a frequent disguise for vitality, ...

I am stuck in traffic in a taxicabwhich is typicaland not just of modern life

What an odd creature you are, Bernard, with your constant fear of death! Do you never have a feeling...

We are almost always bored by just those whom we must not find boring.

Almost always we are bored by people to whom we ourselves are boring.

Extreme boredom provides its own antidote.

Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves?

Boredom is a flight from what is important. Like workaholism and perfectionism, it is a way of distr...

Blessed is the man who having nothing to say refrains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.

The Beatles saved the world from boredom.

Isn’t ‘not to be bored’ one of the principal goals of life?

His eagerness had turned into a routine; he embraced her at the same time every day. It was a habit ...

But her life was as cold as an attic facing north; and boredom, like a silent spider, was weaving it...

She was as sated with him as he was tired of her. Emma had rediscovered in adultery all the banality...

He was bored now when Emma suddenly began to sob on his breast; and his heart, like the people who c...

The essence of life is the smile of round female bottoms, under the shadow of cosmic boredom.

The world, I tell you, is bored -- bored now to the explosive pitch. It's bored by all this incessan...

The basic fact about human existence is not that it is a tragedy but that it is a bore.

What i'm trying to say is this. A certain kind of shittiness, a certain kind of stagnation, a certai...

Kumiko and I would visit their home and have dinner with them twice a month with mechanical regulari...

It is better to be happy for a moment and be burned up with beauty than to live a long time and be b...

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 ...