Boredom Quotes

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...

Any country where I am not bored is a country that teaches me nothing.

He had been bored, that's all, bored like most people. Hence he had made himself out of whole cloth ...

The truth is that everyone is bored, and devotes himself to cultivating habits.

Your true traveller finds boredom rather agreeable than painful. It is the symbol of his liberty - h...

And allow me again to assure you that when you've got yourself going, doing your True Will, you won'...

Do you realise that people die of boredom in London suburbs? It's the second biggest cause of death ...

Why is there always this twitchiness, when you introduce a man to a woman friend, about whether the ...

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.......