Boredom Quotes · Page 24

I have often thought that when I do die it will be of sheer boredom...

— Christopher Hitchens

Being a [bank] director is like being a pilot of an aircraft - it's years of boredom and seconds of terror.

— Moira Johnston

Economics is a subject profoundly conducive to cliche, resonant with boredom. On few topics is an American audience so practiced in turning…

— John Kenneth Galbraith

Right now religion has the romantic aura of the forbidden - Christ is cool. We need to bring it into the schools,…

— Katha Pollitt

“If all the eccentricities and all the strangenesses in this world suddenly disappear, people will fall asleep from the boredom! Every kind…

— Mehmet Murat ildan

Living, just by itself --what a dirge that is! Life is a classroom and Boredom's the usher, there all the time to…

— Louis-Ferdinand Celine

Boredom is just the reverse side of fascination.

— Arthur Schopenhauer

Nothing prevents boredom like a good book.

— Dav Pilkey

COz I'm bored like an empty cup And I wanna run to your side Like you are my favorite chocolate I'm craving…

— Myself

My men have suffered greatly (from boredom), much blood has been shed (by mosquitoes), and I have swung my ax mightily (chopping…

— Seth Grahame-Smith

Everyone will recognize that each sound carries with it a tangle of sensations, already well-known and exhausted, which predispose the listener to…

— Luigi Russolo

“Getting bored pertains only to the stupid people in this planet of wonders! For the clever, even the simplest things of life…

— Mehmet Murat ildan

This ennui, for which we Saxons had no name,--this word of France, has got a terrific significance. It shortens life, and bereaves…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Worrying is as futile as boredom, but harder work.

— Mason Cooley

Although I did admire David Foster Wallace's final unfinished novel about boredom, I'm no DFW, and I want my books to be…

— Chris Pavone

“But the boredom of Frau Spatz had by now reached that pitch where it distorts the countenance of man, makes the eyes…

— Thomas Mann

Ennui is the disease of hearts without feeling, and of minds without resources.

— Madame Roland

The world is eaten up by boredom. You can't see it all at once. It is like dust. You go about and…

— Georges Bernanos

Boredom is not black licorice, Snicket," she said. "There's no reason to share it with me.

— Anonymous

Man's worst enemies are boredom and discontent.

— George W. Buck

We have seen the best minds of our generation destroyed by boredom at poetry readings.

— Lawrence Ferlinghetti

If familiar patterns bore you, if normalcy passes before you unnoticed, if you want to create your own footsteps in the earth…

— Anonymous

boredom was born on a day of uniformity.

— Muriel Barbery

“That thing some people call boredom, in the correct if elusive dosage, can be a form of inoculation against itself. Once you…

— Philip Connors

The worst pair of opposites is boredom and terror. Sometimes your life is a pendulum swing from one to the other.

— Yann Martel