Top 100 Quotes About Boredom
#1. I always say, 'Books beat boredom,' said Amanda wisely.
Mo Willems
#3. I didn't understand yet that the beauty was part of the boredom.
Zadie Smith
#6. Training and learning a new skill is all about repetition. With this in mind be careful not to get repetitive to the point of boredom. A coach's challenge is to find ways of doing similar skills differently
Catherine Cox
#8. In the new century science will defeat famine, boredom, and the plague, but ... vital knowledge will become so elevated that nobody will know how anything works ... the good news is that everybody will be empowered; the bad news is nobody will understand why.
Mark Christensen
#9. Whenever we are not occupied in one of these ways, but cast upon existence itself, its vain and worthless nature is brought home to us; and this is what we mean by boredom.
Arthur Schopenhauer
#10. Dr Howell drank from the special cup which was tied around the handle with red cotton to distinguish the staff cups from those of the patients, and thus prevent the interchange of disease like boredom loneliness authoritarianism.
Janet Frame
#11. True courage is facing life without flinching. I don't mean the times when the right path is hard, but glorious at the end. I'm talking about enduring the boredom, and the messiness, and the inconvenience of doing what is right.' She
Robin Hobb
#12. They had not yet attained the stupefying boredom of omnipotence; their experiments did not always succeed.
Arthur C. Clarke
#15. Man's need for art is absolutely primordial, as strong as, and perhaps stronger than, our need for bread. Without bread, we die of hunger, but without art we die of boredom.
Jean Dubuffet
#16. They talk on about death, about boredom, they drink wine, they laugh, they have a good time, they are happy.
Milan Kundera
#17. The life of an individual is a constant struggle, and not merely a metaphorical one against want or boredom, but also an actual struggle against other people. He discovers adversaries everywhere, lives in continual conflict and dies with sword in hand.
Arthur Schopenhauer
#18. I look forward to a future of boredom and suffering, since I'm too cowardly to put an end to my days. I'll just go on: clubbing, snorting, drinking and persecuting the fools of the world.
Lolita Pille
#19. Hard work never killed a man. Men die of boredom, psychological conflict, and disease. They do not die of hard work.
David Ogilvy
#21. The history of life thus consists of 'long periods of boredom interrupted occasionally by panic.
Elizabeth Kolbert
#22. By his very success in inventing labor-saving devices, modern man has manufactured an abyss of boredom that only the privileged classes in earlier civilizations have ever fathomed.
Lewis Mumford
#24. Boredom ... what is this foreign word you speak of, General? I fear I know nothing of it. Ash
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#25. I don't think suicide is so terrible. Some rainy winter Sundays when there's a little boredom, you should always carry a gun. Not to shoot yourself, but to know exactly that you're always making a choice.
Lina Wertmuller
#26. Boredom has a bad rap. Its true character reveals you are deep inside your comfort zone. Boredom is a docent beckoning toward the edges of a labyrinth.
Gina Greenlee
#27. America is said to have the highest per capita boredom of any spot on earth! We know that because we have the greatest variety and greatest number of artificial amusements of any country. People have become so empty that they can't even entertain themselves.
Billy Graham
#28. There isn't much of a music scene in Hermann, unless you like polka. But the landscape I grew up in is a part of me. I spent a lot of time in the woods doing a lot of nothing to break the boredom.
Nathaniel Rateliff
#29. Police violence, I noted, was directly proportional to police boredom, and not to any resistance offered by protestors.
J.G. Ballard
#30. It.
Such is the perversity of human nature that what we have in abundance-our work, our possessions, and the beauty of our surroundings-we take for granted and learn to ignore, so that we are often paralyzed by boredom, indifference, and ingratitude.
Gene Edward Veith Jr.
#31. Boredom is an evil that is not to be estimated lightly. It can come in the end to real despair. The public authority takes precautions against it everywhere, as against other universal calamities.
Arthur Schopenhauer
#32. It's the boredom that kills you. You read until you're tired of that. You do crossword puzzles until you're tired of that. This is torture. This is mental torture.
Jack Kevorkian
#33. Sin, sin! To rid myself of boredom by committing a crime, to break up monotony by deceiving. To sin in order to be a new person, another person. To hate life worse than it hated me. To sin so as not to die.
Henri Barbusse
#34. In medieval times, if someone displayed the symptoms we now identify as boredom, that person was thought to be committing something called acedia, a 'dangerous form of spiritual alienation'
a devaluing of the world and its creator.
Richard Louv
#35. Boredom is a sign of satisfied ignorance, blunted apprehension, crass sympathies, dull understanding, feeble powers of attention, and irreclaimable weakness of character.
James Bridie
#36. Love, certainly, might be a momentarily strong force capable of moving individuals in strange and remarkable ways, but given sufficient time and the relentless weathering effects of repetition it will always and ultimately diffuse into boredom and melancholy.
John Zande
#37. Pain is interesting. I dislike it immensely but I've never experienced pain and boredom at the same time. Even when I had unending and severe pain in my lower back for several years I was never bored by the pain, though it exhausted me.
Augusten Burroughs
#38. It's precisely in those moments when I don't know what to do, boredom drives one to try a host of possibilities to either get somewhere or not get anywhere.
Anish Kapoor
#40. It's sad to see how many relationships start as just a distraction from boredom, a cover up so they don't have to ever deal with the true pain below
Evan Sutter
#41. Give me boredom. At least I know where I'm going to eat and sleep tonight.
Neil Gaiman
#42. I can never think of the time I spend idling in railway stations as lost; it's a waiting liberated from the three temporal vices of regret, anticipation or boredom, the weak echo of that bliss spent between lifetimes.
Eric Morecambe
#45. A man needs an antidote to boredom. A man needs ambition.
To do what?
Emma Jane Holloway
#46. I always liked routine. I suppose I never found boredom very boring. I doubted I could explain it to someone like Margo but drawing circles through life struck me as a kind of reasonable insanity.
John Green
#47. Boredom is a symptom of a conditioned and closed mind. If you are bored, you're doing yourself a tremendous disservice. Open your mind, break-free from your conditioned routine, and reignite the flames of excitement and discovery.
Steve Maraboli
#49. He found himself in habiting the vast, empty plateau where most people live, between boredom and contentment.
Jess Walter
#50. She was comfortable enough that she was beginning to suffer from the most chronic condition of slavery - boredom.
Patricia Briggs
#52. Boredom, as her mother had always told them, was a state to be pitied, the province of the witless.
Kate Morton
#53. Idleness or boredom has no place in the life of a Christian.
Pope Paul VI
#54. Strange new problems are being reported in the growing generations of children whose mothers were always there, driving them around, helping them with their homework
an inability to endure pain or discipline or pursue any self-sustained goal of any sort, a devastating boredom with life.
Betty Friedan
#55. I have only ever been truly frightened of boredom and loneliness," she says. It
Eowyn Ivey
#57. You get no writing done at all if you sit at a table with a view. You'd spent the whole time watching the birds or thinking about what you would like to be doing out of doors, instead of flogging yourself to work out of sheer boredom.
Mary Stewart
#58. The tendency is to blame boredom on the environment. "This town is really dull" or "What a boring speaker." The particular town or speaker is never dull, it is you experiencing the boredom, and you can eliminate it by doing something else with your mind or energy at that moment.
Wayne Dyer
#60. There is something more terrible than a hell of suffering
a hell of boredom.
Victor Hugo
#61. Every native of every place is a potential tourist, and every tourist is a native of somewhere. Every native everywhere lives a life of overwhelming and crushing banality and boredom and desperation and depression, and every deed, good and bad, is an attempt to forget this.
Jamaica Kincaid
#62. Miss the present and you live in boredom. BE in the present and you will be surprised that there is no boredom at all. Start by looking around a little more like a child. Be a child again! That's what meditation is all about: being a child again - a rebirth, being innocent again, not-knowing.
Rajneesh
#63. Freedom without any purpose feels a whole lot like boredom.
Inio Asano
#64. Don't try to 'fix' the child's boredom - rather, let the child find his or her inner resources.
Julia Cameron
#65. The average man gets his living by such depressing devices that boredom becomes a sort of natural state to him.
H.L. Mencken
#66. As for boredom ... I notice that it leaves me as soon as I am doing something that has got to be done.
John Jay Chapman
#67. The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity.
Dorothy Parker
#69. The emptiness of our boredom met with the emptiness of these supposed signs.
Witold Gombrowicz
#70. Jonahtan Seagull discovered that boredom and fear and anger are the reasons that a gull's life is so short,and with these gone from his thought,he lived a long life indeed.
Richard Bach
#71. Punk was a protest against work and against boredom. It was a sign of life, a rant, a scream, a rejection of bourgeois morals. But have things improved since then? Arguably, they've got worse.
Tom Hodgkinson
#72. We're not big on irony in Jamaica, sarcasm and double-talk. We tend to say things plainly, sometimes to the point of boredom.
Marlon James
#73. Lying is not a sin, since there has never been a law-maker or philosopher who could determine what truth is. I lie for the fun of it. I lie for the fear of the gravity of life. I lie out of boredom. How can anyone who has more fantasy than the Catholic evening paper get by without lying?
Iwan Goll
#74. Despite the boredom of the infinity, we want life not shorter than the eternity!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#75. There are only two emotions in a plane: boredom and terror.
Orson Welles
#76. Boredom is a disease worse than cancer. Drugs cure it.
Doug Stanhope
#77. When Boredom comes, it is the time during which discovery is to be made. That is the time during which real effort (purushartha) can be made. But instead, people push it aside.
Dada Bhagwan
#78. 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 a pioneer.
Luchino Visconti
#79. Now we can understand Schopenhauer when he said that mankind was apparently doomed to vacillate eternally between the two extremes of distress and boredom.
Viktor E. Frankl
#80. There's something dangerous about the boredom of teenage girls.
Megan Abbott
#82. Music is a place to take refuge. It's a sanctuary from mediocrity and boredom. It's innocent and it's a place you can lose yourself in thoughts, memories and intricacies.
Lisa Gerrard
#83. Something opens our wings. Something makes boredom and hurt disappear. Someone fills the cup in front of us: We taste only sacredness.
Rumi
#84. Boredom is a blessing when it leads you to wisdom. And boredom is a curse when it leads you to frustration and depression.
Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
#85. My definition of what makes a journey wholly or partially horrible is boredom.
Martha Gellhorn
#86. You couldn't get a decent drink in either of them, for a start. And the boredom you got in Heaven was almost as bad as the excitement you got in Hell.
Terry Pratchett
#87. Turning fifty ... is like flying: hours of boredom punctuated by moments of sheer terror.
Erica Jong
#88. It appears she has taken an exorbitant quantity of heroin.' 'Oh dear.' I pushed my plate aside. 'What condition did she have to take it for?' 'Boredom.' He stood up. 'She has so little to do with her time since she came out of prison.' I
M.R.C. Kasasian
#89. Boredom comes from a boring mind.
Metallica
#90. We're not memories, Katherine, we're dreams. All of us. Each part of us a dream, a nightmare of blood and vomit and boredom and fear. And when we wake up - we die." When
Mark Lawrence
#91. Boredom is your soul's way of telling you to step up and do what you were born to.
Miya Yamanouchi
#92. Do you realise that people die of boredom in London suburbs? It's the second biggest cause of death amongs the English in general. Sheer boredom ...
Alexander McCall Smith
#93. The sky above the buildings outside their apartment windows is the color of a dusty chalkboard, and the light coming down onto the street is exactly the color of boredom.
Jennifer Egan
#94. The world, this palpable world, which we were wont to treat with the boredom and disrespect with which we habitually regard places with no sacred association for us, is in truth a holy place, and we did not know it. Venite, adoremus.
Pierre Teilhard De Chardin
#95. The word aerobics comes from two Greek words: aero, meaning "ability to," and bics, meaning "withstand tremendous boredom.
Dave Barry
#96. No other species flees from boredom with as much urgency as we do. We are far more eager to do brain work than we are to do physical labor.
Greg Carlson
#97. Boredom is the specter that haunts children from kindergarten to graduation on every continent.
Amanda Ripley
#98. What matters is entertainment. Eternity takes forever. The infinite expanse of time just does not know when to quit. The dead fear boredom the way mortals fear death.
Catherynne M Valente
#99. A firefighter's job is hours of boredom, seconds of terror.
Kathryn Shay
#100. People with a high tolerance for boredom can get a lot of thinking done.
Stephen King
