Bored Quote by Walker Percy

Man is the only animal that can be bored.

— Erich Fromm

Only the most acute and active animals are capable of boredom.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

In short, humans are programmed to get bored.

— Emily Oster

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

No other species anywhere in the world had invented boredom. Perhaps it was boredom, not intelligence, that had propelled them up to the evolutionary…

— Terry Pratchett

The only way to stave off boredom, in a complex domesticated primate like humankind, is to increase one's intelligence. This is not appealing to…

— Robert Anton Wilson

Boredom is the consciousness of repetition. Because animals cannot remember the past, they cannot feel bored. They cannot remember the past, so they cannot…

— Rajneesh

Animals can be understimulated, but hardly bored.

— Anonymous

All animals, except man, know that the principal business of life is to enjoy it - and they do enjoy it as much as…

— Samuel Butler

Man, unlike the animals, has never learned that the sole purpose of life is to enjoy it.

— Samuel Butler

“A zoologist who observed gorillas in their native habitat was amazed by the uniformity of their life and their vast idleness. Hours and hours…

— E. M. Cioran

Only the most acute and active animals are capable of boredom. - A theme for a great poet would be God's boredom on the…

— Lewis Cass