Boredom Quotes · Page 17

Another day at work...I'm having as much fun as a colorblind person playing twister.

— Anonymous

That which is repeated too often becomes insipid and tedious.

— Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux

Although drugs are immoral and must be kept from the young, thousands of schools pressure parents to give the drug Ritalin to…

— Gore Vidal

Despair leads to boredom, electronic games, computer hacking, poetry and other bad habits.

— Edward Abbey

Nobody has any right to find life uninteresting or unrewarding who sees within the sphere of his own activity a wrong he…

— Charles William Eliot

Rest forever, tired heart. The final illusion has perished. The one we believed eternal is gone. Just like that. Out the door…

— Giacomo Leopardi

The war between being and nothingness is the underlying illness of the twentieth century. Boredom slays more of existence than war.

— Norman Mailer

Boredom flourishes too, when you feel safe. It's a symptom of security.

— Eugene Ionesco

A universal basic income doesn't give people dignity or protect them from boredom and vice.

— Oren Etzioni

“When you feel bored, pump your adrenaline!”

— Toba Beta

The pilot of the Galilean lake; Two massy keys he bore, of metals twain (The golden opes, the iron shuts amain).

— John Milton

I hate finality, there is too much uncertainty and boredom affiliated with 'the rest of time.'

— Noah Kahan

“I just wish Mary Elizabeth would ask me questions other than “What's up?”

— Stephen Chbosky

The laws that keep us safe, these same laws condemn us to boredom.

— Chuck Palahniuk

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

— François de La Rochefoucauld

Death: Human beings make life so interesting. Do you know, that in a universe so full of wonders, they have managed to…

— Terry Pratchett

“I confess I found it somewhat insipid when I last went....it was all so prosy - so bonnety - so whisty and…

— Jude Morgan

We have a world of pleasure to win, and nothing to lose but boredom.

— Raoul Vaneigem

The worst thing in life is boredom. When people don't know what to do with themselves, they are very, very poor.

— Alice Herz-Sommer

Painting bores me like everything else. Unfortunately, painting is one of the activities - it is bound up in the series of…

— Rene Magritte

In your life’s journey, there will be excitement and fulfillment, boredom and routine, and even the occasional train wreck… But when you…

— Pamela Melroy

Fact is, perfection is boring.

— Robert Genn

The two foes of human happiness are pain and boredom

— Arthur Schopenhauer

You ought not to be ashamed of being bored. What you ought to be ashamed of is being boring.

— Lord Hailsham

“Tolstoy described boredom as “a desire for desires,” while the working-class Chekhov wrote about it primarily as a desire for escape.”

— Mary Mann