Boredom Quotations

Every improvement in communication makes the bore more terrible.

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.

There's a rebirth that goes on with us continuously as human beings. I don't understand, personally, how you can be bored. I can understand how you can be depressed, but I just don't understand boredom.

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

Our only competition in the theater is boredom, because if I'm bored with a play, if I'm revolted by a play on stage, with the Broadway prices, especially today, I'm going to walk out and not come back and pay that price again.

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

Miss Searle had always considered boredom an intellectual defeat.

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

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

Boredom always precedes a period of great creativity.

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

I wanted to get that sense of peace and even boredom that comes with long familiarity.

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

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

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.

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

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

Boredom or being sick of what you've done before is a big part of being in a band.

For all the boredom the straight life brings, it's not too bad.

When you pay attention to boredom it gets unbelievably interesting.

One must choose in life between boredom and suffering.

Boredom, after all, is a form of criticism.

One should only see a psychiatrist out of boredom.

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

Discussing how old you are is the temple of boredom.

I begin with the principle that all men are bores. Surely no one will prove himself so great a bore as to contradict me in this.

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

The man who suspects his own tediousness is yet to be born.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Boring people are a reflection of boring people.

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.

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

As actors, the thing we have to fight, more than even the business part of making movies, is boredom.

If I have to spend prolonged periods of time in a trailer, I go mad. Stuck in a metal box doing nothing, I lie there paralysed with boredom.

Boredom is a concept that I don't understand.

Only those who want everything done for them are bored.

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

I have no tolerance for boredom. I spend so many hours in the office, and I still love it.

I hate small towns because once you've seen the cannon in the park there's nothing else to do.

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

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

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

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

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.

Boredom is the legitimate kingdom of the philanthropic.

As soon as you set foot on a yacht you belong to some man, not to yourself, and you die of boredom.

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

Since boredom advances and boredom is the root of all evil, no wonder, then, that the world goes backwards, that evil spreads. This can be traced back to the very beginning of the world. The gods were bored; therefore they created human beings.

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.

You'll find boredom where there is the absence of a good idea.

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

I wanted to make good records. But my problem is I've got a low boredom threshold, so I wanted it to look and sound different with each album, which is really tantamount to suicide, cause people lose it, they lose it - they say: 'I like that, and that's not this.

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

Fortunately, our audiences are used to a kind of boredom in the theatre, and if the writer is skillful, he will flatter them into thinking: 'Why, that's us up there, and aren't we - for all our little foibles - pretty nice guys and gals?'

The secret of being a bore... is to tell everything.

If I drive myself to the brink of my ability, then I don't get stale or bored.

Boredom, anger, sadness, or fear are not 'yours,' not personal. They are conditions of the human mind. They come and go. Nothing that comes and goes is you.

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

To do the same thing over and over again is not only boredom: it is to be controlled by rather than to control what you do.

My drive to put myself on the line comes from boredom. From that feeling when you go to bed and think, 'What did I do today?' It doesn't have to be something monumental, just a feeling that you really tried to look at something, or look into something.

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

A bore is a person who opens his mouth and puts his feats in it.

Without lies humanity would perish of despair and boredom.

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

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

I finally overcame my phobia, and now I approach flying with a sort of studied boredom - a learned habit, thanks to my learn-to-fly-calmly training - but like all former flying phobics, I retain a weird and feverish fascination with aviation news, especially bad news.

Boredom is just the reverse side of fascination: both depend on being outside rather than inside a situation, and one leads to the other.

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

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.

Economics is a subject profoundly conducive to cliche, resonant with boredom. On few topics is an American audience so practiced in turning off its ears and minds. And none can say that the response is ill advised.

Everything considered, work is less boring than amusing oneself.

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

There's nothing like impending death to rouse you from existential boredom.

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

Thanks to Twitter, iPads, BlackBerrys, voice-activated in-dash navigation systems, and a hundred other technologies that offer distraction anywhere, anytime, boredom has loosened its grip on us at last - that once-crushing 'weight' has become, for the most part, a memory.

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

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

Surely a long life must be somewhat tedious, since we are forced to call in so many trifling things to help rid us of our time, which will never return.

When people are bored it is primarily with themselves.

Boredom is... a vital problem for the moralist, since half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it.

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

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

The enemy of good television is boredom and predictability.

In small towns, news travels at the speed of boredom.

I’m very interested in sublimation. I love the way Francis Bacon talked about the grin without the cat, the sensation without the boredom of its conveyance… I’ve always wanted to be able to convey figurative imagery in a kind of shorthand, to get it across in as direct a way as possible. I want there to be a human presence without having to depict it in full.

Modern man has left the realm of the unknown and the mysterious, and has settled down in the realm of the functional. He is turned is back to the world of the foreboding and the exulting and has welcomed the world of boredom.

When fire burns the enthusiasm is worth seeing. People, who are enthusiastic and happy, lethargy and boredom never plague them.

What strange impulse is it which induces otherwise truthful people to say they like music when they do not, and thus expose themselves to hours of boredom?

He managed to convey indifference, contempt, and boredom in the one word.

An oasis of horror in a desert of boredom.

Nobody has any right to find life uninteresting or unrewarding who sees within the sphere of his own activity a wrong he can help to remedy, or within himself an evil he can hope to overcome.

I see the children with their boredom and their vacant stares.

I really think I write about everyday life. I don't think I'm quite as odd as others say I am. Life is intrinsically, well, boring and dangerous at the same time. At any given moment the floor may open up. Of course, it almost never does; that's what makes it so boring.

One of the deep fundamentals of poetry is the recurrence of sounds, syllables, words, phrases, lines, and stanzas. Repetition can be one of the most intoxicating features of poetry. It creates expectations, which can be fulfilled or frustrated. It can create a sense of boredom and complacency, but it can also incite enchantment and inspire bliss.