Boredom Quotes

698 Boredom quotes by 498 unique authors

A very elementary exercise in psychology, not to be dignified by the name of psycho-analysis, showed me, on looking at my notebook, that the sketch… — Virginia Woolf
Everyone thinks that courage is about facing death without flinching. But almost anyone can do that. Almost anyone can hold their breath and not scream… — Robin Hobb
Extreme boredom provides its own antidote. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
If life — the craving for which is the very essence of our being — were possessed of any positive intrinsic value, there would be… — Arthur Schopenhauer
Remember—boredom is the enemy, not some abstract "failure. — Tim Ferriss
i'm a slave to my emotions, to my likes, to my hatred of boredom, to most of my desires — F. Scott Fitzgerald
In other centuries, human beings wanted to be saved, or improved, or freed, or educated. But in our century, they want to be entertained. The… — Michael Crichton
I suppose you could call me...Soot," said the thing. "Yes...Soot. I have breathed it, lived in it, and eaten it for so long that it… — Garth Nix
Norman Mailer described the desire to be cool as a "decision to encourage the psychopath in oneself, to explore that domain of experience where security… — Anthony Bourdain
An oasis of horror in a desert of boredom. — Charles Baudelaire
In the morning you were never violently sorry-- you made no resolutions, but if you had overdone it and your heart was slightly out of… — F. Scott Fitzgerald
People with a high tolerance for boredom can get a lot of thinking done. — Stephen King
If the world were a paradise of luxury and ease, a land flowing with milk and honey, where every Jack obtained his Jill at once… — Arthur Schopenhauer
The days hardened with cold and boredom like last year's loaves of bread. One began to cut them with blunt knives without appetite, with a… — Bruno Schulz
Hear this or not, as you will. Learn it now, or later -- the world has time. Routine, repetition, tedium, monotony, ephemeracy, inconsequence, abstraction, disorder,… — David Foster Wallace
To be, in a word, unborable.... It is the key to modern life. If you are immune to boredom, there is literally nothing you cannot… — David Foster Wallace
He was a volatile mixture of confidence and vulnerability. He could deliver extended monologues on professional matters, then promptly stop in his tracks to peer… — Alain de Botton
The key is the ability, whether innate or conditioned, to find the other side of the rote, the picayune, the meaningless, the repetitive, the pointlessly… — David Foster Wallace
Against boredom even gods struggle in vain. — Friedrich Nietzsche
A bit of theory as we settle down for lunch: the waiter's treatment of Kitty is actually a kind of sandwich, with the bottom bread… — Jennifer Egan
I’ve seen excitement, and I’ve seen boredom. And boredom was best. — Terry Pratchett
And yes, to answer you seriously, I am beginning to be... well, not bored, but tempted; afraid, but tempted. When you've been in pain for… — Truman Capote
I always liked routine. I suppose I never found boredom very boring. I doubted I could explain it to someone like Margo but drawing circles… — John Green
I’m bored’ is a useless thing to say. I mean, you live in a great, big, vast world that you’ve seen none percent of. Even… — Louis C. K.
What annoys a person who suicides? The life itself. Boredom. Tiredness that descends on every morning when you look at yourself at the mirror. — Henning Mankell

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