Boredom Quotes

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

A scholar knows no boredom.

Jean Paul Friedrich Richte

Boredom is a sign of satisfied ignorance, blunted apprehension, crass sympathies, dull understanding, feeble powers of attention, and irreclaimable weakness of character.

James Bridie

Of course we can keep this going, in principle, forever. In practice we will keel over from exhaustion, boredom, or death.

David Adger, Core Syntax: A Minimalist Approach

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

Cyril Northcote Parkinson

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

Ellen Pa

In the U. S. you have to be a deviant or exist in extreme boredom... Make no mistake all intellectuals are deviants in the U. S.

William Seward Burroughs

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

Richard Milhous Nixon

My boredom threshold is low at the best of times but I have spent more time being slowly and excruciatingly bored by children than any other section of the human race.

William H. Borah

A child of my own! Oh, no, no, no! Let my flesh perish with me, and let me not transmit to anyone the boredom and ignominiousness of life.

Gustave Flaubert

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

Marguerite Duras

One should only see a psychiatrist out of boredom.

Muriel Spark

God could cause us considerable embarrassment by revealing all the secrets of nature to us we should not know what to do for sheer apathy and boredom.

Johann von Goethe

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

Heinrich Heine

Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time serenity, that nothing is.

Thomas Szasz

Audacious ribald: your laughter will finish in hideous boredom before morning.

George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman

Work saves us from three great evils: boredom, vice and need.

Voltaire, Candide, 1759

Boredom, after all, is a form of criticism.

William Phillips