Boredom Quotes

698 Boredom quotes by 498 unique authors

There are 6 reasons that a person does anything: Love, faith, greed, boredom, fear... revenge. — Ally Carter
Emptiness and boredom: what a complete understatement. What I felt was complete desolation. Desolation, despair and boredom. — Susanna Kaysen
Boredom is not black licorice, Snicket," she said. "There's no reason to share it with me. — Daniel Handler
Boredom is like a pitiless zooming in on the epidermis of time. Every instant is dilated and magnified like the pores of the face. — Jean Baudrillard
Nature is unfair? So much the better, inequality is the only bearable thing, the monotony of equality can only lead us to boredom. — Francis Picabia
There are children who will leave a game to go and be bored in a corner of the garret. How often have I wished for… — Gaston Bachelard
God could cause us considerable embarrassment by revealing all the secrets of nature to us: we should not know what to do for sheer apathy… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
A quarter of America is a dramatic, tense, violent country, exploding with contradictions, full of brutal, physiological vitality, and that is the America that I… — Italo Calvino
After I dropped out of college at the age of 19, I became a mortgage broker, and when I went back to school I thought… — Alice Dreger
I have no tolerance for boredom. I spend so many hours in the office, and I still love it. — Francisco Costa
Clarity keeps you from boredom. — Kim Basinger
Boredom always precedes a period of great creativity. — Robert M. Pirsig
We choose mania over boredom every time. — James Gleick
As a reader, I have a very short attention span and a low tolerance for boredom, and I find that comes in handy with my… — John Scalzi
Airline travel is hours of boredom interrupted by moments of stark terror. — Al Boliska
The main thing I got from growing up in a suburb is the boredom you have as a child. — Alia Shawkat
The two foes of human happiness are pain and boredom — Arthur Schopenhauer
Then came human beings, they wanted to cling but there was nothing to cling to. Thus I progressed on the surface of life, in the… — Albert Camus
Beauty is a bit of a bore. — William Somerset Maugham
In the ancient recipe, the three antidotes for dullness or boredom are sleep, drink, and travel. It is rather feeble. From sleep you wake up,… — DH Lawrence
You live like this, sheltered, in a delicate world, and you believe you are living. Then you read a book(Lady Chatterley, for instance), or you… — Anais Nin
Uncertainty and mystery are energies of life. Don't let them scare you unduly, for they keep boredom at bay and spark creativity. — Unknown Author
Our lives are repetitious shams-every single day a simulacrum of the previous day. So for Man, he is out to pepper his daily activities with… — Matthew Lotti
Only the most acute and active animals are capable of boredom. - A theme for a great poet would be God's boredom on the seventh… — Lewis Cass
This is the curse of our age, that even the strangest aberrations are no cure for boredom. — Stendhal

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