Boredom Quotes · Page 31

When we hold back out of laziness, that is when we tie ourselves into knots of boredom.

— Walter Annenberg

It is only a step from boredom to disillusionment, which leads naturally to self-pity, which in turn ends in chaos.

— Manly Hall

What I thought I was going to do over the summer: hang with friends, have a party, go swimming, go to the…

— Anonymous

Retiring and discovering that you no longer have enough energy to enjoy life and dying a few years out of sheer boredom.

— Paulo Coelho

This is the curse of our age, that even the strangest aberrations are no cure for boredom.

— Stendhal

They say that adultery is the main thing that can damage a marriage, but it's not. It's boredom.

— Barry Cryer

One must work, if not from inclination, at least out of despair — since it proves, on close examination, that work is…

— Charles Baudelaire

The more interesting life becomes, in other words, the more boredom we are doomed to experience.

— Susan Maushart

Her butler opened it for her. His name was Boredom. She said, 'Boredom, fetch me a plaything.' He said 'Very good ma'am,'…

— Jeanette Winterson

“Because people who decline organized leisure activities are deserters from the great common struggle against boredom, and they deserve neither attention nor…

— Milan Kundera

I spent a fair amount of time in Communist Poland when I was young - my wife was from there - and…

— Lawrence Osborne

Many people try to avoid pressure, yet the absence of any tension or pressure usually creates a sense of boredom and the…

— Tony Robbins

I wanted to make good records. But my problem is I've got a low boredom threshold, so I wanted it to look…

— Adam Ant

Thanks to Twitter, iPads, BlackBerrys, voice-activated in-dash navigation systems, and a hundred other technologies that offer distraction anywhere, anytime, boredom has loosened…

— Walter Kirn

“Katerina Lvovna lived a boring life in the rich house of her father-in-law during the five years of marriage to her unaffectionate…

— Nikolai Leskov

As for America, it is the ideal fruit of all your youthful hopes and reforms. Everybody is fairly decent, respectable, domestic, bourgeois,…

— Henry Adams

“Cool people are only cool for the first thirty minutes of knowing them. After that, they just become annoying.”

— Carroll Bryant

They had not yet attained the stupefying boredom of omnipotence; their experiments did not always succeed.

— Arthur C. Clarke

Utopia was here at last: its novelty had not yet been assailed by the supreme enemy of a ll Utopias - boredom.

— Arthur C. Clarke

The boredom of married life inevitable destroys love, when love has preceded marriage.

— Stendhal

This Marxian sentence, repeated to the point of boredom, is misinterpreted. In reality [Karl] Marx was a "religious" man.

— Erich Fromm

...boredom is all about perception. It's a self-diagnosis, plain and simple. If you don't realize you're bored, you're not.

— Susan Maushart

What most people call "chaos" is actually incredibly predictable and maddeningly boring - greed, close-mindedness, warring over power.

— Greg Saunier

Unless one is taught what to do with success after getting it, achievement of it must inevitably leave him prey to boredom.

— Bertrand Russell

To die for the sake of dying - I prefer to die of passion than to die of boredom!

— Vincent Van Gogh

You know your bored when you are shuffling your status while waiting for your crops-pet-rent-fish-land to be ready on Farm-Pet-City-Fish-Frontier-ville

— Anonymous

“Boredom is the very opposite of beauty and truth. Life has been sacrificed to profit, and the result is boredom on a…

— Tom Hodgkinson

Nobody is bored when he is trying to make something that is beautiful or to discover something that is true.

— Anonymous

Bordom creates wisdom, but only for those as talented as me, everyone else just gets to sit there bored like F***

— LMB

He regards boredom, I observe, as the One and Mighty Enemy of his soul. And will succeed in conquering it, I am…

— Dorothy Dunnett

Flying is hours and hours of boredom sprinkled with a few seconds of sheer terror.

— Pappy Boyington

If I have to spend prolonged periods of time in a trailer, I go mad. Stuck in a metal box doing nothing,…

— Romola Garai

I have the impression that if he didn't complicate his life so needlessly, he would die of boredom.

— Boris Pasternak

“One wonders what would happen in a society where there were no rules to break. Doubtlessly everyone would quickly die of boredom.”

— Susan Howatch

I love heights. I love speed. Im on the verge of being a pyromaniac. Maybe my phobia is boredom.

— Erin Wasson

What strange impulse is it which induces otherwise truthful people to say they like music when they do not, and thus expose…

— Agnes Repplier

I can't keep myself from playing roles. The emotionless decadent, looking for diversion from boredom, is a favorite.

— Ellen Willis

Only now do I understand the war against boredom, the lost cause of empty hours, of empty days and nights.

— Jonathan Safran Foer

Men become utilitarian out of fear of the alternative the chaos of tangled or tepid desires, of rootlessness and boredom.

— John Carroll

To fool a judge, feign fascination, but to bamboozle the whole court, feign boredom.

— David Mitchell