Boredom Quotes

698 Boredom quotes by 498 unique authors

Boredom is the keynote of poverty - of all its indignities, it is perhaps the hardest of all to live with - for where there… — Moss Hart
The function of football, soccer, basketball and other passion-sports in modern industrial society is the transference of boredom, frustration, anger and rage into socially acceptable… — Edward Abbey
America is said to have the highest per capita boredom of any spot on earth! We know that because we have the greatest number of… — Billy Graham
One should only see a psychiatrist out of boredom. — Muriel Spark
Retiring and discovering that you no longer have enough energy to enjoy life and dying a few years out of sheer boredom. — Paulo Coelho
Psychiatrists declare that most of our fatigue derives from our mental and emotional attitudes... What kinds of emotional factors tire the sedentary (or sitting) worker?… — Dale Carnegie
Acting offers me an outlet. Here is the perfect opportunity to spend fleeting moments becoming an entirely different person; to experience a character entirely unlike… — Osric Chau
People say that jealousy is the greatest enemy of love.Â Theyâ€™re wrong.Â The greatest enemy of love is boredom. — Nicole Kidman
Filming is like a long air journey: there's so much hanging around and boredom that they keep giving you food. — John Cleese
Net neutrality: The only two words that promise more boredom in the English language are 'featuring Sting,' — John Oliver
As actors, the thing we have to fight, more than even the business part of making movies, is boredom. — Linda Fiorentino
I have often thought that when I do die it will be of sheer boredom... — Christopher Hitchens
Before, for me, peace could have been synonymous with boredom. — Isabelle Adjani
The human soul has need of security and also of risk. The fear of violence or of hunger or of any other extreme evil is… — Simone Weil
Boredom or being sick of what you've done before is a big part of being in a band. — Alex Kapranos
It's precisely in those moments when I don't know what to do, boredom drives one to try a host of possibilities to either get somewhere… — Anish Kapoor
Want and boredom are indeed the twin poles of human life. — Arthur Schopenhauer
I've made a career over the last seventeen years of mostly playing men in uniform, especially cops. The one thing for an actor that is… — Benjamin Bratt
All our life passes in this way: we seek rest by struggling against certain obstacles, and once they are overcome, rest proves intolerable because of… — Blaise Pascal
I wanted to get that sense of peace and even boredom that comes with long familiarity. — Debbie Reynolds

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