Boredom Quotes

698 Boredom quotes by 498 unique authors

My boredom with everything has numbed me. — Fernando Pessoa
One listless day followed another, with nothing to distinguish one from the next. You could have changed the order and no one would have noticed. — Haruki Murakami
...my boredom might be described as a malady affecting external objects and consisting of a withering process; an almost instantaneous loss of vitality--just as though… — Alberto Moravia
Violence is spiritual junk food, and boredom is spiritual anorexia. — Peter Kreeft
But maybe boredom is erotic, when women do it, for men. — Margaret Atwood
They say that death kills you, But death doesn't kill you. Boredom and indifference kill you. — Iggy Pop
He regards boredom, I observe, as the One and Mighty Enemy of his soul. And will succeed in conquering it, I am sure—if he survives… — Dorothy Dunnett
The most total opposite of pleasure is not pain but boredom, for we are willing to risk pain to make a boring life interesting. — Peter Kreeft
Boredom is that awful state of inaction when the very medicine ― that is, activity ― which could solve it, is seen as odious. Archery?… — Margaret George
I think there is something beautiful in reveling in sadness. The proof is how beautiful sad songs can be. So I don’t think being sad… — Joseph Gordon-Levitt
I have always regarded as a stroke of good fortune that I was not born or brought up in a small American town; they may… — Gore Vidal
None will ever be a true Parisian who has not learned to wear a mask of gaiety over his sorrows and one of sadness, boredom,… — Gaston Leroux
People had been working for so many years to make the world a safe, organized place. Nobody realized how boring it would become. With the… — Chuck Palahniuk
I remember laughing with relief that the same old adolescent boredom goes on from generation to generation. ...the words took me back to my own… — Julian Barnes
Utopia was here at last: its novelty had not yet been assailed by the supreme enemy of a ll Utopias - boredom. — Arthur C. Clarke
The worst pair of opposites is boredom and terror. Sometimes your life is a pendulum swing from one to the other. — Yann Martel
I always say, 'Books beat boredom,' said Amanda wisely. — Mo Willems
No man should go through life without once experiencing healthy, even bored solitude in the wilderness, finding himself depending solely on himself and thereby learning… — Jack Kerouac
...boredom was as exhausting as backbreaking labor. — Jung Chang
Your body does not eliminate poisons by knowing their names. To try to control fear or depression or boredom by calling them names is to… — Alan Watts
Only now do I understand the war against boredom, the lost cause of empty hours, of empty days and nights. — Jonathan Safran Foer
These are the Seven Deadly Sins: Avarice, Envy, Pride, Gluttony, Lust, Anger, Sloth. These are the seven deadly sins: venality, paranoia, insecurity, excess, carnality, contempt,… — Martin Amis
Enjoyment appears at the boundary between boredom and anxiety, when the challenges are just balanced with the person's capacity to act. — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
It is important to grasp that boredom is one of the most common - and undesirable - consequences of 'unicameralism'. Boredom is a feeling of… — Colin Wilson
I always liked routine. I suppose I never found boredom very boring. — John Green

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