Boredom Quotes

698 Boredom quotes by 498 unique authors

Probably the difference between man and the monkeys is that the monkeys are merely bored, while man has boredom plus imagination. — Lin Yutang
It seems that boredom is one of the greatest discoveries of our time. If so, there's no question but that he must be considered a… — Luchino Visconti
In love there are no vacations. No such thing. Love has to be lived fully with its boredom and all that. — Marguerite Duras
Miss Searle had always considered boredom an intellectual defeat. — Mary Renault
The war between being and nothingness is the underlying illness of the twentieth century. Boredom slays more of existence than war. — Norman Mailer
The boredom occasioned by too much restraint is always preferable to that produced by an uncontrolled enthusiasm for a pointless variety. — Osbert Lancaster
If I planned everything out in advance, I'd expire of boredom. — Peter Straub
In marketing you must choose between boredom, shouting and seduction. Which do you want? — Roy H. Williams
Variety is more than a means of avoiding boredom, since art is more than an entertainment of the senses. — Rudolf Arnheim
Boredom rests upon the nothingness that winds its way through existence; its giddiness, like that which comes from gazing down into an infinite abyss, is… — Soren Kierkegaard
Sooner barbarity than boredom. — Theophile Gautier
Nothing is so stifling as symmetry. Symmetry is boredom, the quintessence of mourning. Despair yawns. There is something more terrible than a hell of suffering… — Victor Hugo
When we hold back out of laziness, that is when we tie ourselves into knots of boredom. — Walter Annenberg
Boredom is the deadliest poison. — William F. Buckley, Jr.
How some of the writers I come across get through their books without dying of boredom is beyond me. — William Gaddis
Much is forgiven anyone who relieves the desperate boredom of the working press. — William Weld
There is nothing frightening about an eternal dreamless sleep. Surely it is better than eternal torment in Hell and eternal boredom in Heaven. — Isaac Asimov
I've never been someone who's very prone to boredom. I don't know, boredom seems like something you should grow out of at about 15 or… — Jason Isbell
The existential vacuum manifests itself mainly in a state of boredom. — Viktor E. Frankl
Profound boredom, drifting here and there in the abysses of our existence like a muffling fog, removes all things and men and oneself along with… — Martin Heidegger
There is no lasting happiness outside the prescribed cycle of painful exhaustion and pleasurable regeneration, and whatever throws this cycle out of balance – poverty… — Hannah Arendt
There is no one who has no leisure time at all. The office is not a permanent sanctuary, and Sundays are an institution. Thus, in… — Unknown Author
Nothing prevents boredom like a good book. — Dav Pilkey
There is something more terrible than a hell of suffering--a hell of boredom. — Victor Hugo
Good Lord, I don't know what 'rights' a man has! And I don't know the solution of boredom. If I did, I'd be the one… — Sinclair Lewis

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