Boredom Quotes

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 ...

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...