Boredom Quote by Jess Walter

The average man gets his living by such depressing devices that boredom becomes a sort of natural state to him.

— H. L. Mencken

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…

— Luchino Visconti

Insensibly he formed the most delightful habit in the world, the habit of reading: he did not know that thus he was providing himself…

— W. Somerset Maugham

Boredom means you develop your own interior life.

— Hilton Als

The truth is that everyone is bored, and devotes himself to cultivating habits.

— Albert Camus

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…

— Dorothy Dunnett

“It's the way a man chooses to limit himself that determines his character. A man without habits, consistency, redundancy - and hence boredom -…

— Luke Rhinehart

Boredom is the self being stuffed with itself.

— Walker Percy

What he had not learned, however, was this: to find contentment in himself and his own life

— Hermann Hesse

Man is by nature restless. When left too long in one place he will inevitably grow bored, unmotivated, and unproductive.

— Ricardo Semler

“And so he drifted back to London... where he lived a life of increasingly busy idleness as he searched out one diversion after another”

— Mary Balogh

“He was working hard at increasing his life span. He did it by cultivating boredom.”

— Joseph Heller