Boredom Quotes

698 Boredom quotes by 498 unique authors

Vanity, revenge, loneliness, boredom, all apply: lust is one of the least of the reasons for promiscuity. — Mignon McLaughlin
Work is the world's easiest escape from boredom and the only surefire road to success. — Marabel Morgan
There are moments when, faced with our lack of success, I wonder whether we are failures, proud but impotent. One thing reassures me as to… — Jules de Goncourt
When I write love songs, people think they're really soppy - but I see love as a consolation for the boredom of life. — Martin Gore
Television is god-damned amusement park. Television is a circus, a carnival, a traveling troupe of acrobats, storytellers, dancers, singers, jugglers, sideshow freaks, lion tamers and… — Paddy Chayefsky
Three-quarters of a soldier's life is spent in aimlessly waiting about. — Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy
Passions are less mischievous than boredom, for passions tend to diminish and boredom increase. — Jules Amedee Barbey d'Aurevilly
It is remarkable, in cats, that the outer life they reveal to their masters is one of perpetual boredom. — Robley Wilson
The one sure means of dealing with boredom is to care for someone else, to do something kind and good. — Theodor Haecker
The amount of satisfaction you get from life depends largely on your own ingenuity, self-sufficiency, and resourcefulness. People who wait around for life to supply… — William C. Menninger
An enthusiast may bore others, but he has never a dull moment himself. — John F. Kieran
A bore is a man who, when you ask him how he is, tells you. — Unknown Author
Boredom is just the reverse side of fascination. — Arthur Schopenhauer
Boredom, after all, is a form of criticism. — Wendell Phillips
No society ever seems to have succumbed to boredom. Man has developed an obvious capacity for surviving the pompous reiteration of the commonplace. — John Kenneth Galbraith
Audacious ribald: your laughter will finish in hideous boredom before morning. — George Bernard Shaw
Boredom is the inner conflict we suffer when we lose desire, when we lack a lacking. — Robert McKee
She thought of the last couple of years: the boredom, the narrowness of existence, the dearth of anything to look forward to. Yet now, in… — Rosamunde Pilcher
Something doing every minute' may be a gesture of despair-or the height of a battle against boredom. — B.F. Skinner
The fancies that take their monstrous birth from the spinelessness and boredom of usurped wealth bring in their wake every defect ... and though rich… — Jean Lorrain

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