716 Quotes About Boredom

Поистине плачевна судьба короля, который познал все на свете и для которого любая речь звучит пусто, словно кувшин надтреснутый. Я хочу, чтоб меня удивили, а на меня наводят скуку; ищу потрясений, а слышу глупую болтовню; жажду необычайного, а получаю грубую лесть. (Король Глобарес - мудрецам)

The boring parts don't last forever. In retrospect, they aren't even boring.

Boredom is itself worry.

All men, reaching back to Adam in the Garden, plead Ignorance as their defence; when, if we were but honest, we would admit that the apple was hedged with every warning imaginable. So I too fell; perhaps all sins are not causes but effects, being the result of that first sin, Boredom.

Unhappy people often insist on trying to uncover the full magnitude of their unhappiness, or choose to investigate other people's lives as a distraction from their own.

She would not tell him the truth for some weeks, but she would eventually confess that she had left with him because the fear had gone out of her daily leaps. Her hours were filled with confident, minor feats and toothless dangers. She would not call it such, but Adam would later name it for her: it was boredom that had driven her from her mother’s side and a secure home.

Just lay down on the beach, with nothing intellectual or constructive to do , other than soaking in the sun, and listening to the refreshing sounds of the water waves and admiring the smiles of the ́near and dear ́ ones that we love.

The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity.

Boredom is a form of evil; perhaps one of Kierkegaard's characters was more correct when he said, "Boredom is the root of all evil." Boredom is a preview of death, if not itself a form of death, and when trapped in prolonged boredom, even the most saintly of us will hope for, pray for, or even engineer relief, however demonic.