Boredom Quotes

698 Boredom quotes by 498 unique authors

One road to happiness is to cultivate curiosity about everything. Not only about people but about subjects, not only about the arts but about history… — Gerald Brenan
Despite what I had acchieved, I don't for a moment think I am any braver or better than anyone else.Â This is how I attempt… — Roz Savage
Education must enable young people to effect what they have recognized to be right, despite hardships, despite dangers, despite inner skepticism, despite boredom, and despite… — Kurt Hahn
In medieval times, if someone displayed the symptoms we now identify as boredom, that person was thought to be committing something called acedia, a 'dangerous… — Richard Louv
The function of music is to release us from the boredom of existence. — Sebastian Horsley
Boredom or discontent is useful to me when I acknowledge it and see clearly my assumption that there's something else I would rather be doing.… — Hugh Prather
Novels are forged in passion, demand fidelity and commitment, often drive you to boredom or rage, sleep with you at night. They are the long… — David Leavitt
Pop is everything art hasn't been for the last two decades...It springs newborn out of a boredom with the finality and over-saturation of Abstract-Expressionism, which,… — Robert Indiana
I am still amazed at the amount of Christian charity [Wellesley] stuck us all with, a kind of glazed politeness in the face of boredom… — Nora Ephron
Many people try to avoid pressure, yet the absence of any tension or pressure usually creates a sense of boredom and the lackluster experience of… — Tony Robbins
Alcohol and marijuana, if used in moderation, plus loud, usually low-class music, make stress and boredom infinitely more bearable. — Kurt Vonnegut
Love can never really be a great base for marriage because love is fun and play. If you marry someone for love you will be… — Rajneesh
Hell is more like boredom, or not having enough to do, and too much time to contemplate one's deficiencies. — Dorothy Gilman
The average man gets his living by such depressing devices that boredom becomes a sort of natural state to him. — H. L. Mencken
The inexorable boredom that is at the core of life. — Jacques-Benigne Bossuet
Very often, I confess, the teller of dreams bores me. His dream could perhaps interest me if it were frankly worked on. But to hear… — Gaston Bachelard
Living, just by itself - what a dirge that is! Life is a classroom and Boredom's the usher, there all the time to spy on… — Louis-Ferdinand Celine
That human life must be some kind of mistake is sufficiently proved by the simple observation that man is a compound of needs which are… — Arthur Schopenhauer
I am bored generally means "I am boring". — Dennis Prager
The beauty of facing life unprepared is tremendous. Then life has a newness, a youth; then life has a flow and freshness. Then life has… — Rajneesh

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