716 Quotes About Boredom

For Heidegger, boredom is a privileged fundamental mood because it leads us directly into the very problem complex of being and time.

I guess boredom is the new mother of invention.

A car is one of the most interesting inventions, but driving is one of the most boring activities.

I think I must have invented you on one of those days I was really bored.

Conformity is a machine for creating boredom.

There are no uninteresting things, only uninterested people.

The vacancy left by absence of worship is filled by mere killing of time and by boredom, which is directly related to inability to enjoy leisure; for one can only be bored if the spiritual power to be leisurely has been lost. There is an entry in Baudelaire... "One must work, if not from taste then at least from despair. For, to reduce everything to a single truth: work is less boring than pleasure.

I have no problem with boredom, or not knowing what to do next. My only problem-which I may never solve--is finding enough time to do all the things I would like to do.

Consumption can be a remedy against boredom and may convey a sense of fictitious power and supremacy, by standing out from the crowd through the extravagance of the expenditure. As it becomes an addiction, however, it might be cured, if the right medication is administered : humbleness and mindful discovery of the others. (“Buying now, dying later”)