Boredom Quotes

Freedom without any purpose feels a whole lot like boredom.

Papa's love did indeed have wondrous properties: it not only compensated for her boredom and anxiety, it was the cause of her boredom and anxiety.

A subject for a great poet would be God's boredom after the seventh day of creation.

How some of the writers I come across get through their books without dying of boredom is beyond me.

Boredom is rage spread thin.

Violence is spiritual junk food, and boredom is spiritual anorexia.

Too many church services start at eleven sharp and end at twelve dull.

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

They had not yet attained the stupefying boredom of omnipotence; their experiments did not always succeed.

People of Wealth and the so called upper class suffer the most from boredom.

One thing I can say about George... he may not be able to keep a job, but he's not boring.

Only those who want everything done for them are bored.

One must work, if not from inclination, at least out of despair — since it proves, on close examination, that work is less boring than amusing oneself.

Jump out the window if you are the object of passion. Flee it if you feel it. Passion goes, boredom remains.

Virtuous people often revenge themselves for the constraints to which they submit by the boredom which they inspire.

I'm willing to die, but... not of boredom.

To fool a judge, feign fascination, but to bamboozle the whole court, feign boredom.

I didn't leave physics because of boredom. I left it because other issues compelled me in a bigger way. And I always say to myself, "When I'm 60, I'd like to go back to what I interrupted."

Love fed fat soon turns to boredom.

If I planned everything out in advance, I'd expire of boredom.

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

Boredom is a mask frustration wears.

Grasp your opportunities, no matter how poor your health; nothing is worse for your health than boredom.

One must, in one's life, make a choice between boredom and suffering.

A philistine is habitually bored and looks for things that won't bore him. An artist finds things boring, but is never bored.

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.

Boredom, Timothy Duane assured me, is nothing more than anger without passion.

When I think about why I would be a writer, why I should continue to be a writer, it seems to me one of the few things you can dowhere you're never bored.

A yawn is a silent shout.

To be, in a word, unborable.... It is the key to modern life. If you are immune to boredom, there is literally nothing you cannot accomplish

Boredom is nothing but the experience of a paralysis of our productive powers.

Greedhas no satiation point, since its consummation does not fill the inner emptiness, boredom, loneliness, and depression it is meant to overcome.

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

Boredom slays more of existence than war.

The writer's curse is that even in solitude, no matter its duration, he never grows lonely or bored.

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...

The inexorable boredom that is at the core of life.

What a difference! Under the esthetic sky, everything is buoyant, beautiful, transient! when ethics arrives on the scene, everything becomes harsh, angular and infinitely boring

Boredom is the conviction that you can't change ... the shriek of unused capacities.

Boredom is the dream bird that hatches the egg of experience. A rustling in the leaves drives him away.

When people are bored it is primarily with themselves.

It is the unknown that excites the ardor of scholars, who, in the known alone, would shrivel up with boredom.

People say that jealousy is the greatest enemy of love. They’re wrong. The greatest enemy of love is boredom.

The war between being and nothingness is the underlying illness of the twentieth century. Boredom slays more of existence than war.

Boredom is the deadliest poison.

I fell asleep reading a dull book and dreamed I kept on reading, so I awoke from sheer boredom.

The effect of boredom on a large scale in history is underestimated. It is a main cause of revolutions.

Much is forgiven anyone who relieves the desperate boredom of the working press.

I can excuse everything but boredom. Boring people don't have to stay that way.

Boredom is the biggest problem. The same position. Same day of the week. It becomes boring when you don't bring any added flowers home.