716 Quotes About Boredom

Imagine being frozen in one state forever. Wouldn't you rather die than confront such a fate? In fact, you might as well be dead. God would choose to kill himself ... to avoid the horror and boredom of permanent stasis.

My belief is that a relationship is supposed to be a shared path to ecstasy, not a shared path to familiarity. Familiarity leads to boredom.

What good is time with nothing to do?

God didn’t make you boring. You are fearfully and wonderful made. You have sensuality.

His was the sceptical boredom of a whole generation, no longer the romantic ennui of a Werther or a Rene lamenting the passing of old beliefs, but the boredom of the new doubting heroes, the young chemists who angrily proclaim the world intolerable because they have not immediately found life at the bottom of their test tubes.

Can Fate be boring? Certainly; it sure was during life. Can it be needy, too? Yes; it’s nothing if not that—its raison d’être is to make sure what is meant to happen does.

Persons of good sense are necessarily dull, because they revolve over and over again the tedious topics of everyday life.

These Diderots and d'Alemberts and Voltaires and Rousseaus or whatever names these scribblers have - there are even clerics among them and gentleman of noble birth! - they've finally managed to infect the whole society with their perfidious fidgets, with their sheer delight in discontent and their unwillingness to be satisfied with anything in this world, in short, with the boundless chaos that reigns inside their own heads!

It was an ordinary day, a Friday, twenty minutes til lunchtime, five hours til quitting time and the weekend, ten months til vacation, thirty-seven years til retirement. Then the phone rang.