Boredom Quotes

If we allow our high creativity to remain alive, we will never be bored. We can pray, standing in line at the super market. Or we can be lost in awe at all the people around us, their lives full of glory and tragedy, and suddenly we will have the beginnings of a painting, a story, a song.

~ Madeleine L'engle

Boredom doesn't exist where creativity lives.

~ Sanjo Jendayi

Life is just so interesting and complicated and beautiful. Every day, every interaction is different. There’s so much floating around that I would find it really hard to get bored. I’m interested in creating in some way or another, whether it’s photography or writing or just walking through the world.

~ Alejandro Escovedo

Sitting to think of what to write will only set your ass on fire, give you headache, twist your face to look stupid, instead, walk around with a blank mind and something from somewhere will fill it up.

~ Michael Bassey Johnson

The proliferation of creative power can transform the world for all of its inhabitants.

~ Timothy Simpson

Life wore a man out, wore a man thin.Tomorrow would be a better day.

~ Charles Bukowski

It is hard not to see into the future, faced with today's blind architecture - a thousand times more stupid and more revolting than that of other ages. How bored we shall be inside!

~ André Breton

Espere in Spanish, is the one word covering two meanings: waiting and hoping. If life, however, offers no expectation or prospect, waiting represents time wasted”. Waiting needs a future. If not, time is condemned to be killed. In the event that we are lost in a gap of boredom and despair, we are driven back in a vacuum of senselessness and deadlocked in a point of nothingness. We are, so therefore, bound to watch the agony of time. (Waiting for a place behind the geraniums )

~ Erik Pevernagie

Deceit dispels the boredom of the Absolute.

~ Dejan Stojanovic

Running keeps me at a physical peak and sharpens my senses. It makes me touch and see and hear as if for the first time. Through it I get through the first barrier to true emotions, the lack of integration with the body. Into it I escape from the pettiness and triviality of everyday life. And, once inside,stop the daily pendulum perpetually oscillating between distraction and boredom...It is the swing from boredom to anxiety, from depression to worry, that exhausts and defeats us. The sure knowledge that we can be much more than we are frustrates us.

~ George Sheehan

Boredom and ineffective attempts to escape tedium are the perpetual lot of humankind.

~ Kilroy J. Oldster

What i'm trying to say is this. A certain kind of shittiness, a certain kind of stagnation, a certain kind of darkness, goes on propogating itself by its own power in its own self-contained cycle. And once it passes a certain point, no one can stop it - even if the person himself wants to stop it.

~ Haruki Murakami

You are not walking slow enough, when taking a walk, if you do not come across as bored or depressed (to the average sane person).

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

There is absolutely no worse death curse than the humdrum daily existence of the living dead.

~ Anthon St. Maarten

Do you not hear the constant victory,in the human footraceof time, slow as fire,sure, and thick and Herculeanaccumulating its volume and adding its sad fiber?

~ Pablo Neruda

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

~ John Berger

The problem with making a virtual world of oneself is akin to the problem with projecting ourselves onto a cyberworld: there’s no end of virtual spaces in which to seek stimulation, but their very endlessness, the perpetual stimulation without satisfaction, becomes imprisoning.

~ Jonathan Franzen

Ivanov: With a heavy head, with a slothful spirit, exhausted, overstretched, broken, without faith, without love, without a goal, I roam like a shadow among men and I don't know who I am, why I'm alive, what I want. And I now think that love is nonsense, that embraces are cloying, that there's no sense in work, that song and passionate speeches are vulgar and outmoded. And everywhere I take with me depression, chill boredom, dissatisfaction, revulsion from life... I am destroyed, irretrievably!

~ Anton Chekhov

... he preferred being stimulated to being bored.

~ Ruth Harris

Only boring people are bored in relationships.

~ Osayi Emokpae Lasisi

Everyone is alone. Everyone is empty. People no longer have need of others. You can always find a spare for any talent. Any relationship can be replaced. I had gotten bored of a world like that. But for some reason... The thought that someone other than you might kill me never occurred to me. (Makishima Shogo)

~ Urobuchi Gen

Restlessness is usually a sign of changes needing to be made, boredom, or loss of significance.

~ April Mae Monterrosa

No sapient could sustain happiness all of the time, just as no one could live permanently within anger, or boredom, or grief.

~ Becky Chambers

He was bored now when Emma suddenly began to sob on his breast; and his heart, like the people who can only stand a certain amount of music, became drowsy through indifference to the vibrations of a love whose subtleties he could no longer distinguish.

~ Gustave Flaubert

Because my life is empty window of nothingness punctuated by meaningless details of totally mundane non-events.

~ M. Beth Bloom

Dullness. Only humans could have invented it. What imaginations they had.

~ Terry Pratchett

Our age has become so mechanical that this has also affected our recreation. People have gotten used to sitting down and watching a movie, a ball game, a television set. It may be good once in a while, but it certainly is not good all the time. Our own faculties, our imagination, our memory, the ability to do things with our mind and our hands–they need to be exercised. If we become too passive, we get dissatisfied.

~ Maria Augusta Von Trapp

We did everything possible to keep up the spirits of the men, but it was exceedingly difficult because there was nothing for them to do.

~ Theodore Roosevelt

So when I arrived in Saudi Arabia in August of 2001, as there was no chemical, biological, or nuclear war going on, all I prepared for was to be bored until it was time to go home. Obviously, that plan failed.

~ Brian Castner

...people can go to church every week of their lives and never go all in with Jesus Christ. I'm afraid we've cheapened the gospel by allowing people to buy in without selling out. We've made it too convenient, too comfortable. We've given people just enough Jesus to be bored but not enough to feel the surge of holy adrenaline that courses through your veins when you decide to follow Him no matter what, no matter where, no matter when.

~ Mark Batterson

Perhaps a seemingly dull, boring person is not a person who lacks personality, but rather a person with so much personality most other things bore them.

~ Criss Jami

Any country where I am not bored is a country that teaches me nothing.

~ Albert Camus

Boredom presents a very real, if insidious peril. To quote Blaine Harden from the Washington post:“Boredom kills, and those it does not kill, it cripples, and those it does not cripple, it bleeds like a leech, leaving its victims pale, insipid, and brooding. Examples abound...Rats kept in comfortable isolation quickly become jumpy, irritable, and aggressive. Their bodies twitch, their tails grow scaly. The backcountry traveler, then, in addition to developing such skills as the use of a map and compass, or the prevention and treatment of blisters, must prepare mentally and materially to cope with boredom, lest his tail grow scaly.

~ Jon Krakauer

See, my aim is not to survive but to be thrown to the wolfs with adrenaline still pumping in my veins and hear the gods laughing saying ”that was one hell of a youth” and everything I do I do in order to push my senses and levels of natural ecstasy. I want to be so awake that I pass out by exhaustion every night with a smile on my face and no thoughts of tomorrow because today was all I ever could make of it and I am sick and tired of boredom. Bored people slumbering boring words about bored habits and I want to get out.

~ Charlotte Eriksson

...I also believe that introversion is my greatest strength. I have such a strong inner life that I’m never bored and only occasionally lonely. No matter what mayhem is happening around me, I know I can always turn inward.

~ Susan Cain

The price of being a sheep is boredom. The price of being a wolf is loneliness. Choose one or the other with great care.

~ Hugh Macleod

My despair is less despair than boredom and loneliness.

~ Anthony Swofford

The mixture of the grotesque and the tragic is agreeable to the spirit, as are discords to the jaded ear.

~ Charles Baudelaire

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

~ Gerald Brenan

Every day is important for us because it is a day ordained by God. If we are bored with life there is something wrong with our concept of God and His involvement in our daily lives. Even the most dull and tedious days of our lives are ordained by God and ought to be used by us to glorify Him.

~ Jerry Bridges