716 Quotes About Boredom

Writing just to kill time is as good a reason as any.

I think that one listens to the murmur of the soul only because of boredom.

He himself was almost never bored, and there was no man with whom it would have been a greater mistake to suppose that silence meant displeasure.

And yes, life ismostly boring, andwe each go through itfeeling ugly or likea failure, but sometimesthe sun cuts througha tree line just right, oryou get to holdsomeone's hand forthe first time.

Life is and is not a gentle bore.

The pleasure we found in working together made us exceptionally patient; it is much easier to strive for perfection when you are never bored.

That thing some people call boredom, in the correct if elusive dosage, can be a form of inoculation against itself. Once you struffle through that swamp of monotony where time bogs down in excruciating ticks from your wristwatch, it becomes possible to break through to a state of equilibrium, to reach a kind of waiting and watching that verges on what I can only call the holy.

Boredom is fear's patience. Fear doesn't want to exaggerate. Only on occasion--and fear considers this very important--does it want to know how things stand with me.

Rain's pouring and it's too cold. All people bored and I even accord What to do but spell a tale told: So once upon a time a land in the shore...