Boredom Quotes

698 Boredom quotes by 498 unique authors

Who wants a world in which the guarantee that we shall not die of starvation entails the risk of dying of boredom? — Raoul Vaneigem
The secret of being a bore... is to tell everything. — Voltaire
Boredom is the legitimate kingdom of the philanthropic. — Virginia Woolf
If I have to spend prolonged periods of time in a trailer, I go mad. Stuck in a metal box doing nothing, I lie there… — Romola Garai
Books - the best antidote against the marsh-gas of boredom and vacuity — George Steiner
The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity. — Dorothy Parker
...boredom speaks the language of time, and it is to teach you the most valuable lesson in your life--...the lesson of your utter insignificance. It… — Joseph Brodsky
And there is a time, glorious too in its own way, when one scarcely exists, when one is a complete void. I mean, when boredom… — Henry Miller
According to Gur's theory of boredom, everything that happens in the world today is because of boredom: love, war, inventions, fake fireplaces - ninety-five percent… — Etgar Keret
I believe it was Shakespeare, or possibly Howard Cosell, who first observed that marriage is very much like a birthday candle, in that 'the flames… — Dave Barry
There are no uninteresting things, only uninterested people. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
The absence of the will to live is, alas, not sufficient to make one want to die. — Michel Houellebecq
The trouble is that we have a bad habit, encouraged by pendants and sophisticates, of considering happiness as something rather stupid. Only pain is intellectual,… — Ursula K. Le Guin
If I had influence with the good fairy who is supposed to preside over the christening of all children I should ask that her gift… — Rachel Carson
Boredom between two people doesn't come from being together physically. It comes from being apart mentally and spiritually. — Richard Bach
The opposite of love is indifference, and the opposite of happiness is boredom. — Tim Ferriss
Greedhas no satiation point, since its consummation does not fill the inner emptiness, boredom, loneliness, and depression it is meant to overcome. — Erich Fromm
Most times, it's just a lot easier not to let the world know what's wrong. — Chuck Palahniuk
She refused to be bored chiefly because she wasn't boring. — Zelda Fitzgerald
In many cases when a reader puts a story aside because it 'got boring,' the boredom arose because the writer grew enchanted with his powers… — Stephen King
I'm afraid of NOTHING except being bored! — Greta Garbo
The Postmodernists' tyranny wears people down by boredom and semi-literate prose. — Christopher Hitchens
Many persons lead lives of crushing boredom. — Barbara Mertz
We have come to think that duty should come first. I disagree. Duty should be a by-product. Writing, the creative effort, the use of the… — Brenda Ueland
It is terribly rude to tell people that their troubles are boring. — Daniel Handler

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