716 Quotes About Boredom

Isn’t ‘not to be bored’ one of the principal goals of life?

Extreme boredom provides its own antidote.

Boredom forces you to ring people you haven’t seen for eighteen years and halfway through the conversation you remember why you left it so long. Boredom means you start to read not only mail-order catalogues but also the advertising inserts that fall on the floor. Boredom gives you half a mind to get a gun and go berserk in the local shopping centre, and you know where this is going. Eventually, boredom means you will take up golf.

You've already said you were going to kill me," Alex said, "but I didn't think that meant you were going to bore me to death.

Martin in particular concluded that man was born to live either in the convulsions of misery, or in the lethargy of boredom.

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

If life — the craving for which is the very essence of our being — were possessed of any positive intrinsic value, there would be no such thing as boredom at all: mere existence would satisfy us in itself, and we should want for nothing.

Boredom was my bedmate and it was hogging the sheets.

My despair is less despair than boredom and loneliness.