Boredom Quotes

698 Boredom quotes by 498 unique authors

They were connoisseurs of boredom. They savoured the various bouquets of the subtly differentiated boredoms which rose from the long, wasted hours at the dead… — Angela Carter
I really think I write about everyday life. I don't think I'm quite as odd as others say I am. Life is intrinsically, well, boring… — Edward Gorey
Her butler opened it for her. His name was Boredom. She said, 'Boredom, fetch me a plaything.' He said 'Very good ma'am,' and putting on… — Jeanette Winterson
The conventional parabola--sentiment, the touch of the hand, the kiss, the passionate kiss, the feel of the body, the climax in the bed, then more… — Ian Fleming
Patience and boredom are closely related. Boredom, a certain kind of boredom, is really impatience. You don't like the way things are, they aren't interesting… — Bertrand Russell
a generation that cannot endure boredom will be a generation of little men, of men unduly divorced from the slow process of nature, of men… — Bertrand Russell
Life, friends, is boring. We must not say so. After all, the sky flashes, the great sea yearns, we ourselves flash and yearn — John Berryman
And for all the richest and most successful merchants life inevitably became rather dull and niggly, and they began to imagine that this was therefore… — Douglas Adams
The world, this palpable world, which we were wont to treat with the boredom and disrespect with which we habitually regard places with no sacred… — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
Of course, it is boring to read about boring thing, but it is better to read something that makes you yawn with boredom than something… — Daniel Handler
For both of us, I think, it had to do with our weakened power to love. It is strange that enslavement should have that effect… — Martin Amis
The word aerobics comes from two Greek words: aero, meaning “ability to,” and bics, meaning “withstand tremendous boredom. — Dave Barry
They had not yet attained the stupefying boredom of omnipotence; their experiments did not always succeed. — Arthur C. Clarke
I'm dying of boredom. Or maybe just dying. — Megan Whalen Turner
I sat there for three hours and did not feel the time or the boredom of our talk and its foolish disconnection. As long as… — Anais Nin
My despair is less despair than boredom and loneliness. — Anthony Swofford
Thus I progressed on the surface of life, in the realm of words as it were, never in reality. All those books barely read, those… — Albert Camus
This was solidarity. The debutante having her toenails pedicured - the housewife buying carrots from a pushcart - the bookkeeper who had wanted to be… — Ayn Rand
Boredom and stupidity and patriotism, especially when combined, are three of the greatest evils of the world we live in. — Robertson Davies
Boredom is an instrument of social control. Power is the power to impose boredom, to command stasis, to combine this stasis with anguish. The real… — Saul Bellow
Really, these wizards! You'd think no one had ever had a cold before! Well, what is it?" she asked, hobbling through the bedroom door onto… — Diana Wynne Jones
Sometimes, though, I feel that pushing books is a whole lot like pushing medicine. Think of books as pills. I have pills that cure ignorance… — Tom Robbins
The books in Mo and Meggie's house were stacked under tables, on chairs, in the corners of the rooms. There where books in the kitchen… — Cornelia Funke
Isn’t ‘not to be bored’ one of the principal goals of life? — Gustave Flaubert
One wonders what would happen in a society in which there were no rules to break. Doubtless everyone would quickly die of boredom. — Susan Howatch

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