Boredom Quotes

698 Boredom quotes by 498 unique authors

To escape boredom, man works either beyond what his usual needs require, or else he invents play, that is, work that is designed to quiet… — Friedrich Nietzsche
Boredom, that silent spider, was spinning its web in the darkness in every corner of her heart. — Gustave Flaubert
The essence of life is the smile of round female bottoms, under the shadow of cosmic boredom. — Guy de Maupassant
There's too much down time making movies. That leads to boredom. And that leads to trouble. — Jeremy Renner
Our only competition in the theater is boredom, because if I'm bored with a play, if I'm revolted by a play on stage, with the… — Jerome Lawrence
Probably the difference between man and the monkeys is that the monkeys are merely bored, while man has boredom plus imagination. — Lin Yutang
It seems that boredom is one of the greatest discoveries of our time. If so, there's no question but that he must be considered a… — Luchino Visconti
In love there are no vacations. No such thing. Love has to be lived fully with its boredom and all that. — Marguerite Duras
Miss Searle had always considered boredom an intellectual defeat. — Mary Renault
The war between being and nothingness is the underlying illness of the twentieth century. Boredom slays more of existence than war. — Norman Mailer
The boredom occasioned by too much restraint is always preferable to that produced by an uncontrolled enthusiasm for a pointless variety. — Osbert Lancaster
If I planned everything out in advance, I'd expire of boredom. — Peter Straub
In marketing you must choose between boredom, shouting and seduction. Which do you want? — Roy H. Williams
Variety is more than a means of avoiding boredom, since art is more than an entertainment of the senses. — Rudolf Arnheim
Boredom rests upon the nothingness that winds its way through existence; its giddiness, like that which comes from gazing down into an infinite abyss, is… — Soren Kierkegaard
Sooner barbarity than boredom. — Theophile Gautier
Nothing is so stifling as symmetry. Symmetry is boredom, the quintessence of mourning. Despair yawns. There is something more terrible than a hell of suffering… — Victor Hugo
When we hold back out of laziness, that is when we tie ourselves into knots of boredom. — Walter Annenberg
Boredom is the deadliest poison. — William F. Buckley, Jr.
How some of the writers I come across get through their books without dying of boredom is beyond me. — William Gaddis

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