Boredom Quotes

698 quotes by 498 authors

Flying is hours and hours of boredom sprinkled with a few seconds of sheer terror. — Pappy Boyington
I don't think suicide is so terrible. Some rainy winter Sundays when there's a little boredom, you should always carry a gun. Not to shoot… — Unknown Author
Grasp your opportunities, no matter how poor your health; nothing is worse for your health than boredom. — Mignon McLaughlin
Think of new ways to do old things. You must protect against boredom in a practice situation. — George Raveling
By his very success in inventing labor-saving devices, modern man has manufactured an abyss of boredom that only the privileged classes in earlier civilizations have… — Lewis Mumford
It is fatal to know too much at the outcome: boredom comes as quickly to the traveler who knows his route as to the novelist… — Paul Theroux
Defeat is a thing of weariness, of incoherence, of boredom, and above all futility. — Antoine de Saint-Exupery
No man ever dared to manifest his boredom so insolently as does a Siamese tomcat when he yawns in the face of his amorously importunate… — Aldous Huxley
Boring people are a reflection of boring people. — Douglas Horton
Boredom slays more of existence than war. — Norman Mailer
Boredom is useful to me when I notice it and think: Oh I'm bored; there must be something else I want to be doing... boredom… — Hugh Prather
Boredom is not an end-product, is comparatively rather an early stage in life and art. You've got to go by or past or through boredom,… — F. Scott Fitzgerald
Boredom is always counter-revolutionary. Always. — Guy Debord
The world is eaten up by boredom. You can't see it all at once. It is like dust. You go about and never notice, you… — Georges Bernanos
The concept of boredom entails an inability to use up present moments in a personally fulfilling way. — Wayne Dyer
Over-excitement and boredom are states of mind which I equally shun. — E. V. Knox
Only the most acute and active animals are capable of boredom. — Friedrich Nietzsche
One of the worst forms of mental suffering is boredom, not knowing what to do with oneself and one's life. Even if man had no… — Erich Fromm
Man finds nothing so intolerable as to be in a state of complete rest, without passions, without occupation, without diversion, without effort. Then he feels… — Blaise Pascal
Life is never boring, but some people choose to be bored. — Wayne Dyer

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