Boredom Quotes
698 Boredom quotes by 498 unique authors
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Boredom is a concept that I don't understand.
— Christian Louboutin
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The basic fact about human existence is not that it is a tragedy, but that it is a bore. It is not so much a…
— H. L. Mencken
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There's no excuse to be bored. Sad, yes. Angry, yes. Depressed, yes. Crazy, yes. But there's no excuse for boredom, ever.
— Viggo Mortensen
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You'll find boredom where there is the absence of a good idea.
— Earl Nightingale
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Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves?
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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A subject for a great poet would be God's boredom after the seventh day of creation.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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The presidency has many problems, but boredom is the least of them.
— Richard M. Nixon
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I finally overcame my phobia, and now I approach flying with a sort of studied boredom - a learned habit, thanks to my learn-to-fly-calmly training…
— Susan Orlean
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The chief product of an automated society is a widespread and deepening sense of boredom.
— C. Northcote Parkinson
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Something opens our wings. Something makes boredom and hurt disappear. Someone fills the cup in front of us: We taste only sacredness.
— Unknown Author
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Boredom is... a vital problem for the moralist, since half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it.
— Bertrand Russell
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For all the boredom the straight life brings, it's not too bad.
— Gus Van Sant
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Teens think listening to music helps them concentrate. It doesn't. It relieves them of the boredom that concentration on homework induces.
— Marilyn vos Savant
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The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom.
— Arthur Schopenhauer
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Boredom is just the reverse side of fascination: both depend on being outside rather than inside a situation, and one leads to the other.
— Arthur Schopenhauer
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The life of the creative man is lead, directed and controlled by boredom. Avoiding boredom is one of our most important purposes.
— Susan Sontag
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This is the curse of our age, even the strangest aberrations are no cure for boredom.
— Stendhal
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It is the unknown that excites the ardor of scholars, who, in the known alone, would shrivel up with boredom.
— Wallace Stevens
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Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time; serenity, that nothing is.
— Thomas Szasz
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He who seeks rest finds boredom. He who seeks work finds rest.
— Dylan Thomas
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Somebody's boring me. I think it's me.
— Dylan Thomas
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Boredom is rage spread thin.
— Paul Tillich
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Boredom, anger, sadness, or fear are not 'yours,' not personal. They are conditions of the human mind. They come and go. Nothing that comes and…
— Eckhart Tolle
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Boredom: the desire for desires.
— Leo Tolstoy
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A healthy male adult bore consumes each year one and a half times his own weight in other people's patience.
— John Updike
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