Boredom Quotes

698 Boredom quotes by 498 unique authors

The leaf was darkish, and had prickles on it, But in another country, as he said, Bore a bright golden flow'r, but not in this… — John Milton
Big book, a big bore. — Callimachus
Being a [bank] director is like being a pilot of an aircraft - it's years of boredom and seconds of terror. — Unknown Author
Squeeze marriage as much as you like, you will never extract anything from it but fun for bachelors and boredom for husbands. — Honore de Balzac
Boredom, not the will, is the mother of change. Necessity is the father. — Mason Cooley
Everyone will recognize that each sound carries with it a tangle of sensations, already well-known and exhausted, which predispose the listener to boredom, in spite… — Luigi Russolo
These days, when people are alone, or feel a moment of boredom, they tend to reach for a device. In a movie theater, at a… — Sherry Turkle
In Madame Bovary Flaubert never allows anything to go on too long; he can suggest years of boredom in a paragraph, capture the essence of… — Michael Dirda
Boredom is a sign of satisfied ignorance, blunted apprehension, crass sympathies, dull understanding, feeble powers of attention, and irreclaimable weakness of character. — James Bridie
Boredom is not in the world, but in the way we see the world. — Paulo Coelho
Maybe you reach a certain point in evolution where boredom is the greatest threat to your survival. Maybe this isn't a planetary takeover at all,… — Rick Yancey
My greatest discovery has been my love of boredom and to get fun out of it. — Julien Torma
Never in the history of boredom has anyone been more bored than I am right now. — Jack O'Neill
What if we choose not to do the things we are supposed to do? The principal gain is a sense of an authentic act -… — Joseph Campbell
Greasy food might not be good for your body, but it does wonders for the soul. A healthy diet may prolong your life, but what… — Jessica Zafra
Without optimism & self-belief among teachers, classrooms become wastelands of boredom & routine and schools deserts of lost opportunity. — Andy Hargreaves
It is love that transports us, that fills us with joy! Love turns life into one long adventure, every encounter is a dazzling experience -… — FranÃ§ois Lelord
Writing is a deeply immersive experience. When the words are flying, the house could be burgled and I wouldn’t notice. I have a low boredom threshold and… — Monica Ali
BOREDOM with established truths is a great enemy of free men. — Bernard Crick
At the same time, eroticism in the home requires active engagement and willful intent. It is an ongoing resistance to the message that marriage is… — Esther Perel
Despair leads to boredom, electronic games, computer hacking, poetry and other bad habits. — Edward Abbey
The technical phase can be boring because there is little opportunity for creavivity, for art. Boredom leads to complacency and mistakes. — Garry Kasparov
Although drugs are immoral and must be kept from the young, thousands of schools pressure parents to give the drug Ritalin to any lively child… — Gore Vidal
Down time is where we become ourselves... a hiatus that passes for boredom but is really the quiet moving of the wheels inside that fuel… — Anna Quindlen
Boredom is a certain sign that we are allowing our faculties to rust in idleness. — William Ralph Inge

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