Boredom Quotes

698 Boredom quotes by 498 unique authors

Obesity is a mental state, a disease brought on by boredom and disappointment. — Cyril Connolly
One receives as reward for much ennui, despondency, boredom -such as a solitude without friends, books, duties, passions must bring with it -those quarter-hours of… — Friedrich Nietzsche
To 'know your place' is a good idea in politics. That is not to say 'stay in your place' or 'hang on to your place',… — William Safire
Today I am a woman torn between the terror that everything might change and the equal terror that everything might carry on exactly the same… — Paulo Coelho
One would expect boredom to be a great yawning emotion, but it isn't, of course. It's a small niggling thing. — Josephine Tey
Our culture has become something that is completely and utterly in love with its parent. It's become a notion of boredom that is bought and… — Malcolm Mclaren
From every Englishman emanates a kind of gas, the deadly choke-damp of boredom. — Heinrich Heine
Idleness or boredom has no place in the life of a Christian. — Pope Paul VI
I mean, evil and boredom. Evil and ennui. Evil and the lack of stimulation. Evil and sluggish blood. — Gregory Maguire
If you're not part of the freaks, you're part of the boredom. — Perry Farrell
Love alone is not enough. Without imagination, love stales into sentiment, duty, boredom. Relationships fail not because we have stopped loving but because we first… — James Hillman
I have a really low boredom threshold. — Nick Hornby
Fairness means not to use fraud and trickery in the exchange of commodities and services and the exchange of feelings...Exploitation and manipulation produce boredom and… — Erich Fromm
The full-grown modern human being who seeks but refuge finds instead boredom and mental dissolution, unless he can be, even in his withdrawal, creative. He… — Robert Briffault
Be politically correct, but please don't bother other people with conversation about being politically correct, because that's the end of everything. You want to create… — Karl Lagerfeld
Most people can't handle boredom. That means they can't stay on one thing until they get good at it. And they wonder why they're unhappy. — Curtis Jackson
In your lifeâ€™s journey, there will be excitement and fulfillment, boredom and routine, and even the occasional train wreckâ€¦ But when you have picked a… — Unknown Author
But some natives--most natives in the world--cannot go anywhere. They are too poor. They are too poor to go anywhere. They are too poor to… — Jamaica Kincaid
Desire is always followed by boredom. And only love can defeat boredom. Love with a capital L; we all dream of it. — Gregoire
It is remarkable, in cats, that the outer life they reveal to their master is one of perpetual confident boredom. All they betray of the… — Robley Wilson

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