Boredom Quotes

She thought of the last couple of years: the boredom, the narrowness of existence, the dearth of anything to look forward to. Yet now, in a single instant, the curtains had been whipped aside, and the windows been thrown open onto a brillant view that had been there, waiting for her, all the time. A view, moreover, laden with the most marvellous possibilities and opportunities.

~ Rosamunde Pilcher

Those diversions sparked her life with momentary excitement. Without them, Charis felt she would be driven mad by the unrelenting sameness of life in the palace. Now and again she imagined that she would like to run away, to disguise herself and travel the tumbled hills, to see life among the simple herdsmen and their families; or perhaps she would take a boat and sail the coasts, visiting tiny, sun-baked fishing villages and learning the rhythm of the sea.Unfortunately, making good either of those plans would mean taking action, and the only thing more palpable than the boredom she endured was the inertia that enclosed her like a massive fist. The weighty impossibility of changing her life in any but the most insignificant detail insured that she would not try.She sighed again and returned to the corridor, pausing to pick a sunshade from a nearby bush, idly plucking the delicate yellow petals and dropping them one by one, like days, fluttering from her hand. (pg.16.

~ Stephen R. Lawhead

A healthy male adult bore consumes each year one and a half times his own weight in other people's patience.

~ John Updike

He is an old bore even the grave yawns for him.

~ Herbert Beerbohm Tree

How is it that we remember the least triviality that happens to us and yet not remember how often we have recounted it to the same person?

~ La Rochefoucauld

We may be willing to tell a story twice never to hear it more than once.

~ William Hazlitt

Some people can stay longer in an hour than others can in a week.

~ William Dean Howells

A bore is a man who deprives you of solitude without providing you with company.

~ Gian Vincenzo Cravina

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

~ Bert Leston Taylor

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

~ Thomas Bailey Aldrich

Ennui has made more gamblers than avarice more drunkards than thirst and perhaps as many suicides as despair.

~ Charles Caleb Colton

The inexorable boredom that is at the core of life.

~ Jacques-Binigne Bossuet

He has returned from Italy a greater bore than ever he bores on architecture painting statuary and music.

~ Sydney Smith

O wad some power the giftie gie us to see some people before they see us.

~ Ethel Watts Mumford

The most costly disease is not cancer or coronaries. The most costly disease is boredom - costly for both individual and society.

~ Norman Cousins

The devil's name is dullness.

~ Robert E. Lee

The basic fact about human existence is not that it is a tragedy but that it is a bore.

~ H. L. Mencken

His shortcoming is his long staying.

~ Lewis L. Lewisohn

Uncertainty and mystery are energies of life. Don't let them scare you unduly for they keep boredom at bay and spark creativity.

~ R. I. Fitzhenry

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

~ Bertrand Russell

Dullness is a misdemeanour.

~ Ethel Wilson

When people are bored it is primarily with their own selves.

~ Eric Hoffer

A variety of nothing is superior to a monotony of something.

~ Jean Paul Richter

We often forgive those who bore us but can't forgive those whom we bore.

~ La Rochefoucauld

A man can stand almost anything except a succession of ordinary days.

~ Goethe

Any idiot can face a crisis - it's this day-to-day living that wears you out.

~ Anton Chekhov

The secret of boring people lies in telling them everything.

~ Voltaire

Boredom turns a man to sex a woman to shopping and it drives newscasters berserk.

~ Bruce Herschensohn

Blessed is the man who having nothing to say refrains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.

~ George Eliot

Boredom is rage spread thin.

~ Paul Tillich

Almost all human affairs are tedious. Everything is too long. Visits dinners concerts plays speeches pleadings essays sermons are too long. Pleasure and business labour equally under this defect or as I should rather say this fatal superabundance.

~ Arthur Helps

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

~ Dylan Thomas

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

~ Roger Ebert

The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom.

~ Arthur Schopenhauer

For me, the opposite of happiness isn't sadness but boredom.

~ Sushant Singh Rajput

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

~ Robert Fulghum

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

~ Earl Nightingale

Boredom always precedes a period of great creativity.

~ Robert M. Pirsig

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

~ Al Boliska

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

~ Jeremy Renner