Bored Quote by Angela Duckworth

Novelty is seldom the essential... make a subject better from its intrinsic nature.

— Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec

The essence of boredom is to be found in the obsessive search for novelty.

— George Leonard

Novelty serves us for a kind of refreshment, and takes off from that satiety we are apt to complain of in our usual and…

— Joseph Addison

Human nature is fond of novelty.

— Pliny the Elder

Novelty is both delightful and deceptive.

— Honore de Balzac

For me, what fun means is finding novelty in the suffocating familiarity of ordinary life.

— Ian Bogost

People don't want novelty - they want the reassurance of familiarity. No-one wants to be challenged, no-one wants to have their minds blown. There…

— Lauren Beukes

Where there is no novelty, there can be no curiosity.

— Aphra Behn

Novelty has charms that our minds can hardly withstand.

— William Makepeace Thackeray

Some degree of novelty must be one of the materials in almost every instrument which works upon the mind; and curiosity blends itself, more…

— Edmund Burke

The essence of boredom is to be found in the obsessive search for novelty. Satisfaction lies in mindful repetition, the discovery of endless richness…

— George Leonard

Boredom is the exclusive characteristic of the ignorant.

— possibly John Taylor Ghatto