Boredom Quotes

• The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Happiness, Happy, Pain

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• Boredom: the desire for desires.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Desire, Enthusiasm, Bores

  "Anna Karenina". Book by Leo Tolstoy, 1877.

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• I've got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Inspirational, Ambition, Experience

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• The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity.

  Dorothy Parker

  Funny, Life, Wisdom

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• Boredom is rage spread thin.

  Paul Tillich

  Blessing, Rage, Spread

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• A bore is a man who, when you ask him how he is, tells you.

  Bert Leston Taylor

  Men, Bores You, Asks

  The So-Called Human Race (1922) p. 163

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• I’m bored’ is a useless thing to say. I mean, you live in a great, big, vast world that you’ve seen none percent of. Even the inside of your own mind is endless; it goes on forever, inwardly, do you understand? The fact that you’re alive is amazing, so you don’t get to say ‘I’m bored.

  Louis C. K.

  Inspirational, Funny, Life

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• She refused to be bored chiefly because she wasn't boring.

  Zelda Fitzgerald

  Boring, Bores, Being Bored

  Zelda Fitzgerald (2013). “The Collected Writings of Zelda Fitzgerald”, p.457, Simon and Schuster

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• Boredom is the root of all evil - the despairing refusal to be oneself.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Good Life, Roots, Evil

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• Everyone is a bore to someone. That is unimportant. The thing to avoid is being a bore to oneself.

  Gerald Brenan

  Bores, Oneself, Unimportant

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• There's no excuse to be bored. Sad, yes. Angry, yes. Depressed, yes. Crazy, yes. But there's no excuse for boredom, ever.

  Viggo Mortensen

  Inspirational, Sad, Depression

  "Finding Viggo" by Alex Kuczynski, Vanity Fair, January 1, 2004.

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• The Beatles saved the world from boredom.

  George Harrison

  Blessing, World, Saved

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• For I have neither wit, nor words, nor worth, Action, nor utterance, nor the power of speech, To stir men's blood: I only speak right on; I tell you that which you yourselves do know.

  William Shakespeare

  Men, Blood, Utterance

  'Julius Caesar' (1599) act 3, sc. 2, l. [225]

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• Bore, n. A person who talks when you wish him to listen.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Listening To Others, Bores You, Effective Listening

  Cynic's Word Book (1906) p. 37

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• One should only see a psychiatrist out of boredom.

  Muriel Spark

  Inspirational, Women, Memorable

  Muriel Spark (2012). “Doctors of Philosophy: A Play”, p.56, Open Road Media

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• Flying is hours and hours of boredom sprinkled with a few seconds of sheer terror.

  Pappy Boyington

  Funny, Humorous, Airplane

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• Running through things because you are familiar with them, breeds routine and this is the seed of boredom.

  James Galway

  Running, Blessing, Routine

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

  Osbert Lancaster

  Blessing, Enthusiasm, Too Much

  Osbert Lancaster (1958). “Here, of All Places”

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• The chief product of an automated society is a widespread and deepening sense of boredom.

  C. Northcote Parkinson

  Blessing, Progress, Society

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• Discussing how old you are is the temple of boredom.

  Ruth Gordon

  Birthday, Inspiration, Temples

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• It is only a step from boredom to disillusionment, which leads naturally to self-pity, which in turn ends in chaos.

  Manly Hall

  Blessing, Self, Steps

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

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Great Day, Would Be, Poet

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

  Jean Baudrillard

  Time, Faces, Bores

  Jean Baudrillard (1990). “Cool Memories”, p.100, Verso

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

  Rudolf Arnheim

  Art, Mean, Blessing

  Rudolf Arnheim (1974). “Entropy and Art: An Essay on Disorder and Order”, p.55, Univ of California Press

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• Perhaps the world's second worst crime is boredom. The first is being a bore.

  Cecil Beaton

  World, Firsts, Crime

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