Boredom Quotes

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

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

A scholar knows no boredom.

Jean Paul Friedrich Richte

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

Voltaire, Candide, 1759

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

Thomas Szasz

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

Ellen Pa

One should only see a psychiatrist out of boredom.

Muriel Spark

In order to live free and happily you must sacrifice boredom. It is not always an easy sacrifice.

Richard Bach

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

Heinrich Heine

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

James Bridie

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

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

George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman

Boredom, after all, is a form of criticism.

William Phillips

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

Richard Milhous Nixon

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

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

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

Voltaire