--- title: "4 Bored Quotes By Soren Kierkegaard" description: "4 Bored quotes by Soren Kierkegaard. Plus more from Soren Kierkegaard and more Bored sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/732/soren-kierkegaard-578_bored_idleness-we-are-accustomed-to-say-is-the_1011433.jpg" --- > [Idleness, we are accustomed to say, is the root of all evil. To prevent this evil, work is recommended… Idleness as such…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/soren-kierkegaard/idleness-we-are-accustomed-to-say-is-the-root-of-all-evil-to-prevent/) [Soren Kierkegaard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/soren-kierkegaard/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/732/soren-kierkegaard-578_bored_idleness-we-are-accustomed-to-say-is-the_1011433.jpg) > [The gods were bored and so they created man. Adam was bored because he was alone, so Eve was created. Thus boredom…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/soren-kierkegaard/the-gods-were-bored-and-so-they-created-man-adam-was-bored-because-he/) [Soren Kierkegaard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/soren-kierkegaard/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/8c7/soren-kierkegaard-578_abel_the-gods-were-bored-and-so-they-created_2063914.jpg) > [Since boredom advances and boredom is the root of all evil, no wonder, then, that the world goes backwards, that evil spreads.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/soren-kierkegaard/since-boredom-advances-and-boredom-is-the-root-of-all-evil-no-wonder/) [Soren Kierkegaard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/soren-kierkegaard/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/302/soren-kierkegaard-578_backwards_since-boredom-advances-and-boredom-is-th_2245564.jpg) > [What a difference! Under the esthetic sky, everything is buoyant, beautiful, transient! when ethics arrives on the scene, everything becomes harsh, angular…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/soren-kierkegaard/what-a-difference-under-the-esthetic-sky-everything-is-buoyant/) [Soren Kierkegaard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/soren-kierkegaard/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9ff/soren-kierkegaard-578_beautiful_what-a-difference-under-the-esthetic-sky_2364614.jpg) ## Other authors on Bored - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b018/author-neil-gaiman-70689.jpg) Neil Gaiman 9 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/bored/neil-gaiman/) - [Mehmet Murat ildan 9 quotes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/bored/mehmet-murat-ildan/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b001/author-francois-de-la-rochefoucauld-146.jpg) Francois de La Rochefoucauld 8 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/bored/francois-de-la-rochefoucauld/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b007/author-chuck-palahniuk-24118.jpg) Chuck Palahniuk 8 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/bored/chuck-palahniuk/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b025/author-winston-churchill-96197.jpg) Winston Churchill 6 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/bored/winston-churchill/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b022/author-sherrilyn-kenyon-84925.jpg) Sherrilyn Kenyon 6 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/bored/sherrilyn-kenyon/) - [Mokokoma Mokhonoana 5 quotes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/bored/mokokoma-mokhonoana/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b014/author-karl-lagerfeld-55227.jpg) Karl Lagerfeld 5 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/bored/karl-lagerfeld/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b008/author-donald-trump-30060.jpg) Donald Trump 5 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/bored/donald-trump/) ## More by Soren Kierkegaard > [Christianity does not oppose debauchery and uncontrollable passions and the like as much as it opposes... flat mediocrity, this nauseating atmosphere, this homey, civil…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/soren-kierkegaard/christianity-does-not-oppose-debauchery-and-uncontrollable-passions/) [Soren Kierkegaard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/soren-kierkegaard/) > [Christians remind me of schoolboys who want to look up the answers to their math problems in the back of the book rather than…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/soren-kierkegaard/christians-remind-me-of-schoolboys-who-want-to-look-up-the-answers-to/) [Soren Kierkegaard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/soren-kierkegaard/) > [People commonly travel the world over to see rivers and mountains, new stars, garish birds, freak fish, grotesque breeds of human; they fall into…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/soren-kierkegaard/people-commonly-travel-the-world-over-to-see-rivers-and-mountains-new/) [Soren Kierkegaard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/soren-kierkegaard/) > [“A strange thing happened to me in my dream. I was rapt into the Seventh Heaven. There sat all the gods assembled. As a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/soren-kierkegaard/a-strange-thing-happened-to-me-in-my-dream-i-was-rapt-into-the/) [Soren Kierkegaard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/soren-kierkegaard/) > [That which is truly human no generation learns from the one before it. No generation learns from another how to love. No generation has…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/soren-kierkegaard/that-which-is-truly-human-no-generation-learns-from-the-one-before-it/) [Soren Kierkegaard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/soren-kierkegaard/) > [A man may perform astonishing feats and comprehend a vast amount of knowledge, and yet have no understanding of himself. But suffering directs a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/soren-kierkegaard/a-man-may-perform-astonishing-feats-and-comprehend-a-vast-amount-of/) [Soren Kierkegaard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/soren-kierkegaard/) > [Be that self which one truly is.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/soren-kierkegaard/be-that-self-which-one-truly-is/) [Soren Kierkegaard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/soren-kierkegaard/) > [I go fishing for a thousand monsters in the depths of my own self](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/soren-kierkegaard/i-go-fishing-for-a-thousand-monsters-in-the-depths-of-my-own-self/) [Soren Kierkegaard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/soren-kierkegaard/) > [In addition to my other numerous acquaintances, I have one more intimate confidant… My depression is the most faithful mistress I have known —…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/soren-kierkegaard/in-addition-to-my-other-numerous-acquaintances-i-have-one-more/) [Soren Kierkegaard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/soren-kierkegaard/) > [The greatest danger to Christianity is, I contend, not heresies, not heterodoxies, not atheists, not profane secularism - no, but the kind of orthodoxy…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/soren-kierkegaard/the-greatest-danger-to-christianity-is-i-contend-not-heresies-not/) [Soren Kierkegaard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/soren-kierkegaard/) > [Future is everything that past has forgotten.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/soren-kierkegaard/future-is-everything-that-past-has-forgotten/) [Soren Kierkegaard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/soren-kierkegaard/) > [Without risk, faith is an impossibility.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/soren-kierkegaard/without-risk-faith-is-an-impossibility/) [Soren Kierkegaard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/soren-kierkegaard/) > [I have only one confidant, and that is the silence of night.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/soren-kierkegaard/i-have-only-one-confidant-and-that-is-the-silence-of-night/) [Soren Kierkegaard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/soren-kierkegaard/) > [A road well begun is the battle half won. The important thing is to make a beginning and get under way.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/soren-kierkegaard/a-road-well-begun-is-the-battle-half-won-the-important-thing-is-to/) [Soren Kierkegaard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/soren-kierkegaard/) > [I have, I believe, the courage to doubt everything; I have, I believe, the courage to fight against everything; but I do not have…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/soren-kierkegaard/i-have-i-believe-the-courage-to-doubt-everything-i-have-i-believe-the/) [Soren Kierkegaard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/soren-kierkegaard/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/bored/soren-kierkegaard/#itemlist", "name": "4 Bored Quotes By Soren Kierkegaard", "numberOfItems": 4, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Idleness, we are accustomed to say, is the root of all evil. 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