716 Quotes About Boredom

Utopia is that idyllic place just before the mass graves are dug.

You said she had a condition?” Terry looked questioningly at me. “Ennui. It’s like boredom, except you think it makes you interesting.

Why do you think there are no gods on Mount Olympus now? They killed themselves, that’s why. They were terminally bored.

Seen from a distant star, the monotony of current events takes on fantastic proportions.

Boredom is out of luck: it is itself being discussed in crashingly boring terms.

I’ve never seen a skeleton army, but if they exist, I’m absolutely positive they’d be marching on Ohio. There’s nothing else to do in Ohio. It’s just corn, corn, skeleton army, possibly evil corn maze, football, corn.

...but I must say there’s nothing amuses me like a little devilry now and then. Life would be dreadfully monotonous without it.

You've got no excuse for being bored anywhere. When I was your age I had never heard of such a thing.

My boredom also turned into melancholy, the melancholy that is so peculiar to us Little Russians, a manly yielding to the feeling of necessity. And my boredom was as necessary as sleep and death.