Boredom Quotes

698 Boredom quotes by 498 unique authors

Virtuous people often revenge themselves for the constraints to which they submit by the boredom which they inspire. — Confucius
Even boredom has its crises. — Mason Cooley
Rules equal boredom, and I don't like that. — Simon Cowell
It is not the simple statement of facts that ushers in freedom; it is the constant repetition of them that has this liberating effect. Tolerance… — Quentin Crisp
The age of chivalry is past. Bores have succeeded to dragons. — Charles Dickens
A bore is a person who opens his mouth and puts his feats in it. — Henry Ford
It is only a step from boredom to disillusionment, which leads naturally to self-pity, which in turn ends in chaos. — Manly Hall
The Beatles saved the world from boredom. — George Harrison
I fell asleep reading a dull book and dreamed I kept on reading, so I awoke from sheer boredom. — Heinrich Heine
Is boredom anything less than the sense of one's faculties slowly dying? — Arthur Helps
Idleness allows you to turn a situation from boredom to pleasure. — Tom Hodgkinson
Punk was a protest against work and against boredom. It was a sign of life, a rant, a scream, a rejection of bourgeois morals. But… — Tom Hodgkinson
When people are bored it is primarily with themselves. — Eric Hoffer
There's a rebirth that goes on with us continuously as human beings. I don't understand, personally, how you can be bored. I can understand how… — Dustin Hoffman
Your true traveller finds boredom rather agreeable than painful. It is the symbol of his liberty - his excessive freedom. He accepts his boredom, when… — Aldous Huxley
Nobody is bored when he is trying to make something that is beautiful or to discover something that is true. — William Ralph Inge
Surely a long life must be somewhat tedious, since we are forced to call in so many trifling things to help rid us of our… — Samuel Johnson
It's the boredom that kills you. You read until you're tired of that. You do crossword puzzles until you're tired of that. This is torture.… — Jack Kevorkian
Boredom is the root of all evil - the despairing refusal to be oneself. — Soren Kierkegaard
Since boredom advances and boredom is the root of all evil, no wonder, then, that the world goes backwards, that evil spreads. This can be… — Soren Kierkegaard
I begin with the principle that all men are bores. Surely no one will prove himself so great a bore as to contradict me in… — Soren Kierkegaard
Morality is a venereal disease. Its primary stage is called virtue; its secondary stage, boredom; its tertiary stage, syphilis. — Karl Kraus
When you pay attention to boredom it gets unbelievably interesting. — Jon Kabat-Zinn
I can excuse everything but boredom. Boring people don't have to stay that way. — Hedy Lamarr
I know when I'm working I seldom get into trouble. My educated guess is that boredom has caused most of the problems with Hollywood celebrities. — Hedy Lamarr

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