Learning Quote by Kate Millett

“And what is the most terrible thing about boredom? Why do we rush to dispel it? Because it is a distraction-free state which soon…

— Irvin Yalom

Boredom is a sign of satisfied ignorance, blunted apprehension, crass sympathies, dull understanding, feeble powers of attention, and irreclaimable weakness of character.

— James Bridie

Boredom is the inner conflict we suffer when we lose desire, when we lack a lacking.

— Robert McKee

Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time; serenity, that nothing is.

— Thomas Szasz

Boredom is not a thing. It's not a feeling or a condition. It is the absence of feelings, things and conditions.

— A. A. Gill

“Boredom is a flight from what is important. Like workaholism and perfectionism, it is a way of distracting yourself from inner experiences. It occurs…

— Gary Zukav

Boredom is nothing but the experience of a paralysis of our productive powers and the sense of unaliveness. Among the evils of life, there…

— Erich Fromm

Boredom is the thing that regularly arrives between excitements and episodes of meaning: it is as natural as the tides, and in it an…

— Eric Maisel

Boredom rests upon the nothingness that winds its way through existence; its giddiness, like that which comes from gazing down into an infinite abyss,…

— Soren Kierkegaard

“Boredom is restlessness of the soul. It is an internal message reminding you that you're better than the stagnancy you've settled for.”

— Steve Maraboli

What is boredom? It is when there is simultaneously too much and not enough.

— Jean-Paul Sartre

Boredom is that awful state of inaction when the very medicine ― that is, activity ― which could solve it, is seen as odious.…

— Margaret George