Boredom Quotes

698 Boredom quotes by 498 unique authors

For I have neither wit, nor words, nor worth, Action, nor utterance, nor the power of speech, To stir men’s blood: I only speak right… — William Shakespeare
Boredom is a mask frustration wears. — Neal Stephenson
Boredom is a pleasing antidote for fear — Daphne du Maurier
If at any moment Time stays his hand, it is only when we are delivered over to the miseries of boredom. — Arthur Schopenhauer
A Strange melancholy pervades me to which I hesitate to give the grave and beautiful name of sorrow. The idea of sorrow has always appealed… — Francoise Sagan
We come from a long line of people who live to read boring texts – I think it may be why we all die young.… — Sherrilyn Kenyon
So eager to die are you? (Zakar) Not particularly, but I’d rather go down clubbing Kessar than from boredom. (Kat) — Sherrilyn Kenyon
Boredom is a terrible affliction of the soulless. — Laini Taylor
Passion goes, Boredom remains. — Coco Chanel
This is the treason of the artist: a refusal to admit the banality of evil and the terrible boredom of pain. — Ursula K. Le Guin
In small towns, news travels at the speed of boredom. — Carlos Ruiz Zafon
The Devil may take the reckless, but the good will surely die of boredom. Boredom and frustration. — Sarah Dunant
The problem in public life is learning to overcome terror; the problem in married life is learning to overcome boredom. — Gabriel Garcia Marquez
To the non-combatants and those on the periphery of action, the war meant only boredom or occasional excitement, but to those who entered the meat… — Eugene B. Sledge
Martin in particular concluded that man was born to live either in the convulsions of misery, or in the lethargy of boredom. — Voltaire
I stared into her eyes, wide under the thick fringe of lashes, and yearned for sleep. Not for oblivion, as I had before, not to… — Stephenie Meyer
Of course boredom may lead you to anything. It is boredom sets one sticking golden pins into people, but all that would not matter. What… — Fyodor Dostoevsky
The educated man pictures a horde of submen, wanting only a day's liberty to loot his house, burn his books, and set him to work… — George Orwell
And so I ask myself: 'Where are your dreams?' And I shake my head and mutter: 'How the years go by!' And I ask myself… — Fyodor Dostoevsky
I have the impression that if he didn't complicate his life so needlessly, he would die of boredom. — Boris Pasternak
One thing is certain: the arts keep you alive. They stimulate, encourage, challenge, and, most of all, guarantee a future free from boredom. They allow… — Vincent Price
I have studiously tried to avoid ever using the word 'madness' to describe my condition. Now and again, the word slips out, but I hate… — Elizabeth Wurtzel
...to experience the reality was to suffer a boredom as endless as the illness itself...the boredom of insanity was a great desert, so great that… — Joanne Greenberg
Toska - noun /ˈtō-skə/ - Russian word roughly translated as sadness, melancholia, lugubriousness. "No single word in English renders all the shades of toska. At… — Vladimir Nabokov
Boredom forces you to ring people you haven’t seen for eighteen years and halfway through the conversation you remember why you left it so long.… — Jeremy Clarkson

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