Boredom Quotes

Who wants a world in which the guarantee that we shall not die of starvation entails the risk of dying of boredom?

Boredom is the legitimate kingdom of the philanthropic.

When we hold back out of laziness, that is when we tie ourselves into knots of boredom.

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

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

Perhaps the world's second-worst crime is boredom; the first is being a bore.

Airline travel is hours of boredom interrupted by moments of stark terror.

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

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.

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

Isn't history ultimately the result of our fear of boredom?

Even boredom has its crises.

Rules equal boredom, and I don't like that.

It is not the simple statement of facts that ushers in freedom; it is the constant repetition of them that has this liberating effect. Tolerance is the result not of enlightenment, but of boredom.

Boredom is always counter-revolutionary. Always.

In love there are no vacations. No such thing. Love has to be lived fully with its boredom and all that.

I fear the boredom that comes with not learning and not taking chances.

Discussing how old you are is the temple of boredom.

The Beatles saved the world from boredom.

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

Is boredom anything less than the sense of one's faculties slowly dying?

Idleness allows you to turn a situation from boredom to pleasure.

Long-term boredom can't lead to anything good.

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.

Morality is a venereal disease. Its primary stage is called virtue; its secondary stage, boredom; its tertiary stage, syphilis.

When you pay attention to boredom it gets unbelievably interesting.

The essence of life is the smile of round female bottoms, under the shadow of cosmic boredom.

Boredom, after all, is a form of criticism.

Miss Searle had always considered boredom an intellectual defeat.

There's too much down time making movies. That leads to boredom. And that leads to trouble.

Teens think listening to music helps them concentrate. It doesn't. It relieves them of the boredom that concentration on homework induces.

The main thing I got from growing up in a suburb is the boredom you have as a child.

The life of the creative man is lead, directed and controlled by boredom. Avoiding boredom is one of our most important purposes.

One should only see a psychiatrist out of boredom.

This is the curse of our age, even the strangest aberrations are no cure for boredom.

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

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

He who seeks rest finds boredom. He who seeks work finds rest.

Boredom is rage spread thin.

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

In marketing you must choose between boredom, shouting and seduction. Which do you want?