Boredom Quote by Émile Zola

“Boredom is the fear of self.”

— Marie Josephine Suin De Beausacq

“I became bored - that was all. Boredom, which is another name and a frequent disguise for vitality, became the unconscious motive of all…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

“Boredom is the very opposite of beauty and truth. Life has been sacrificed to profit, and the result is boredom on a massive scale.”

— Tom Hodgkinson

“He had grown fat on solitude, he thought, and had learned to expect nothing from the day but at best a dull contentment. Sometimes…

— Colm Tóibín

“Boredom is merely a symptom of an apathetic soul.”

— Tim

“…Boredom [is] a moral failing, the mark of a mind insufficiently stocked to occupy itself.”

— Nancy Kress

“A man must assume the moral burden of his own boredom.”

— Samuel Johnson

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

— Bertrand Russell

“Boredom is a sign that you're detached from your own bodily experience and aren't living in the present moment.”

— Georg Feuerstein

“After much effort to live up to a glorious standard there came fatigue, wan hope, and boredom. I experienced extreme boredom. I saw others…

— Saul Bellow

“The result of my obsession with boredom is this book:”

— Manoush Zomorodi

“I’d say that the quantity of boredom, if boredom is measurable, is much greater today than it once was. Because the old occupations, at…

— Milan Kundera