Boredom Quotes

698 Boredom quotes by 498 unique authors

Boredom can be a lethal thing on a small island. — Christopher Moore
If there was no New Orleans, America would just be a bunch of free people dying of boredom." -Judy Deck in an e-mail sent to… — Chris Rose
He resented such questions as people do who have thought a great deal about them. The superficial and slipshod have ready answers, but those looking… — Peter De Vries
Boredom is the conviction that you can't change ... the shriek of unused capacities. — Saul Bellow
I looked out the window for other passengers in love with their drivers, but we were well disguised, we pretended boredom and prayed for traffic. — Miranda July
The truth is that everyone is bored, and devotes himself to cultivating habits. — Albert Camus
The Garden En robe de parade. - Samain Like a skein of loose silk blown against a wall She walks by the railing of a… — Ezra Pound
Listen to your life. See it for the fathomless mystery it is. In the boredom and pain of it, no less than in the excitement… — Frederick Buechner
...the number one reason knitters knit is because they are so smart that they need knitting to make boring things interesting. Knitters are so compellingly… — Stephanie Pearl-McPhee
I would rather die of passion than of boredom. — Vincent Van Gogh
Maybe happiness too is a metaphor invented on a day of boredom — Gustave Flaubert
He managed to convey indifference, contempt, and boredom in the one word. — Charlaine Harris
Bliss—a-second-by-second joy and gratitude at the gift of being alive, conscious—lies on the other side of crushing, crushing boredom. Pay close attention to the most… — David Foster Wallace
The few love affairs which had come my way had been rather silly and sordid. They had not revealed the possibilities of love; in fact… — Aleister Crowley
Freedom without any purpose feels a whole lot like boredom. — Inio Asano
Any country where I am not bored is a country that teaches me nothing. — Albert Camus
If I've learned anything in twenty-nine years, it's that every human being you see in the course of a day has a problem that's sucking… — Douglas Coupland
You searched through all my poets, From Sappho through to Auden, I saw the book fall from your hands, As you slowly died of boredom. — Nick Cave
Usually I avoided college students, whom I considered brutal, wrapped up in themselves, particularly in their youth, in which they found material for drama or… — Francoise Sagan
She had been bored all afternoon by Percy Gryce... but she could not ignore him on the morrow, she must follow up her success, must… — Edith Wharton
We have seen the best minds of our generation destroyed by boredom at poetry readings. — Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Death: Human beings make life so interesting. Do you know, that in a universe so full of wonders, they have managed to invent boredom. — Terry Pratchett
Beneath this mask of selfish tranquility nothing exists except bitterness and boredom. I am one of those whom suffering has made empty and frivilous: each… — Cyril Connolly
I always think boredom is to some extent the fault of the bored. — Kate Ross
Do you suppose the human race invented boredom to make the prospect of death more palatable? — C.D. Payne

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