Bored Quote by John Kenneth Galbraith

Boredom is an evil that is not to be estimated lightly. It can come in the end to real despair. The public authority takes…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

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

— H. L. Mencken

America is said to have the highest per capita boredom of any spot on earth! We know that because we have the greatest number…

— Billy Graham

For the amoral herd that fears boredom above all else, everything becomes entertainment. Sex and sport, politics and the arts are transformed into entertainment.…

— Merold Westphal

Many people, especially women, never experience boredom because they have never learned to work properly.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Many persons lead lives of crushing boredom.

— Anonymous

The concept of boredom entails an inability to use up present moments in a personally fulfilling way.

— Wayne Dyer

Boredom is not in the world, but in the way we see the world.

— Paulo Coelho

Nature is interested in only two things--to survive and to reproduce one like itself. Anything you superimpose on that, all the cultural input, is…

— U.G. Krishnamurti

Boredom comes simply from ignorance and lack of imagination.

— Susan Ertz

Boredom is a vital problem for the moralist, since at least half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it.

— Bertrand Russell

The effect of boredom on a large scale in history is underestimated. It is a main cause of revolutions, and would soon bring to…

— William Ralph Inge