Modern travel would be totally delightful if only I could…

I am fairly tired--bored beyond endurance--by the world we live in, and its ideals, and am ready to say so, not violently, but kindly,…

— Henry Adams

“To me, at least in retrospect, the really interesting question is why dullness proves to be such a powerful impediment to attention. Why we…

— David Foster Wallace

Exploitation and manipulation produce boredom and triviality; they cripple man, and all factors that make man into a psychic cripple turn him also into…

— Erich Fromm

The worst sin, the ultimate sin for me, in anything, is to be bored.

— Ted Turner

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

— Gustave Flaubert

That human life must be some kind of mistake is sufficiently proved by the simple observation that man is a compound of needs which…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

We shop out of boredom, for release, for excitement, for a sense of achievement, for a sense of control over our unruly existences. And…

— Tim Gunn

The most total opposite of pleasure is not pain but boredom, for we are willing to risk pain to make a boring life interesting.

— Peter Kreeft

“A car is one of the most interesting inventions, but driving is one of the most boring activities.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

I don't think anyone wants to do the same thing over and over again.

— Eric Bachmann

When people look in the mirror, sometimes they see are their shells in the mirror, nothing else.

— Anonymous

I'm bored of being bored because being bored is very boring

— Sachithra

Boredom is vastly underrated. Boredom means that nothing is trying to kill you every day.

— Robin Hobb

Life is what you make it¦If one refuses to use ones imagination..it will be boring.

— Anonymous

Listen deeply. Meditate on that which is arising. Even if it's boredom or difficulty or maybe a feeling of being stuck, that in itself…

— Rodney Yee