Boredom Quotes

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

George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman

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

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

Voltaire, Candide, 1759

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

A scholar knows no boredom.

Jean Paul Friedrich Richte

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

Boredom is a finicky creature, never around when you need it, and always popping up when you want it the least.

Lewis Ward

One should only see a psychiatrist out of boredom.

Muriel Spark

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

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

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

James Bridie

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

Marguerite Duras

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

Ellen Pa

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

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

Richard Milhous Nixon

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

Cyril Northcote Parkinson

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

Voltaire