Boredom Quotes

Miss Searle had always considered boredom an intellectual defeat.

Every time I think I've touched bottom as far as boredom is concerned, new vistas of ennui open up.

Probably the difference between man and the monkeys is that the monkeys are merely bored, while man has boredom plus imagination.

Mid-grade readers don't have short attention spans, they just have low boredom tolerance.

For boredom speaks the language of time, and it is to teach you the most valuable lesson of your life - the lesson of your utter insignificance.

A scholar knows no boredom.

Boredom is like a pitiless zooming in on the epidermis of time. Every instant is dilated and magnified like the pores of the face.

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

I know when I'm working I seldom get into trouble. My educated guess is that boredom has caused most of the problems with Hollywood celebrities.

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

None will ever be a true Parisian who has not learned to wear a mask of gaiety over his sorrows and one of sadness, boredom, or indifference over his inward joy.

The so-called conscientiousness of the majority of painters is only perfection applied to the art of boring.

When people are bored it is primarily with themselves.

Big book, a big bore.

All our life passes in this way: we seek rest by struggling against certain obstacles, and once they are overcome, rest proves intolerable because of the boredom it produces.

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

It is not enough to accept boredom, you must embrace it. It is only when you have completely embraced it that you can go beyond it.

I find her anecdotes more efficacious than sheep-counting, rain on a tin roof, or alanol tablets.... you will find me and Morpheus, off in a corner, necking.

Dullness is a misdemeanour.

Many books are longer than they seem. They have indeed no end. The boredom that they cause is truly absolute and infinite.

Boredom can be a lethal thing on a small island.

One would expect boredom to be a great yawning emotion, but it isn't, of course. It's a small niggling thing.

Faith of the bore: everything is worth saying.

Sexual boredom is ousting sexual deviance as the problem.

We often bore others when we think we cannot possibly bore them.

Down time is where we become ourselves... a hiatus that passes for boredom but is really the quiet moving of the wheels inside that fuel creativity.

Against boredom the gods themselves fight in vain.

Variety is more than a means of avoiding boredom, since art is more than an entertainment of the senses.

What's wrong with being a boring kind of guy?

It seems to me that all of the evil in life comes from idleness, boredom, and psychic emptiness, but all of that is inevitable when you become accustomed to living at others' expense.

A well-stocked mind is safe from boredom.

Sooner barbarity than boredom.

The presidency has many problems, but boredom is the least of them.

I am convinced that boredom is one of the greatest tortures. If I were to imagine Hell, it would be the place where you were continually bored.

The opposite of love is indifference, and the opposite of happiness is boredom.

Want and boredom are indeed the twin poles of human life.

Even boredom has its crises.

Before, for me, peace could have been synonymous with boredom.

The boredom occasioned by too much restraint is always preferable to that produced by an uncontrolled enthusiasm for a pointless variety.

Happiness is fugitive; dissatisfaction and boredom are real.

Boredom is simply romanticism with a morning-after thirst.

I've never been someone who's very prone to boredom. I don't know, boredom seems like something you should grow out of at about 15 or 16. There's so much that needs to be done.

I don't want to do the same thing over and over again.

Boring people are a reflection of boring people.

Boredom is the legitimate kingdom of the philanthropic.

An enthusiast may bore others, but he has never a dull moment himself.

A bore is someone who persists in holding his own views after we have enlightened him with ours.

A person with friends need never be bored. There is always more to fathom and enjoy in the complexity of others, and always the possibility of finding a way to delight them.

It's not just a boring exercise in pushing oil paint around a canvas. It's a way of opening a threshold to an exciting new world of vision.

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.