716 Quotes About Boredom

But oh — time has become such a torture, a slow torture. One tries to capture a piece of time that lies ahead and is full of light . . . but thinking about that just makes this awful black time even blacker.

How will an immortal person spend his infinite life without getting bored? Well, he can simply try to find something which doesn’t exist!

One gets away with a lot when one is in an unchallenging relationship or is too busy to invest in one at all. Mostly, one gets away from oneself.

For my part, I despise trivial occurrences; I am only for those which surprise and astonish.

When you are bored, restless, longing for something more, unfulfilled, feeling like you've settled, haunted by the sense of being trapped in your own life, these are the deep waters of your soul speaking to you, telling you something is wrong, something is missing, something needs to change.

I am bored with these frantic cravings, tired of them and therefore myself, and contemptuous though tolerant of all my vast powers of self-pity and self-expressive misery.

As this went on, I realised that it is more tiring to be bored than to be engaged.

In order to live fully you must be guided by the reality of your ecstasy more than the maintenance of your monotony.

A dull routine is hell. People need something to be enthusiastic about.