716 Quotes About Boredom

We consume so we never have to answer the hard questions. When we are bored we eat. When we are lonely we watch a movie, read the newspaper, jump on social media. Each time we do we cover up our real emotions and keep throwing another layer of confusion and anxiety on top, making it almost impossible to dig ourselves out of the hole, or at least see which way is up.

I always like routine. I suppose I never found boredom very boring.

Lady Dedlock is always the same exhausted deity, surrounded by worshippers, and terribly liable to be bored to death, even while presiding at her own shrine.

The mixture of the grotesque and the tragic is agreeable to the spirit, as are discords to the jaded ear.

Nothing speeds brain atrophy more than being immobilized in the same environment: the monotony undermines our dopamine and attentional systems crucial to our brain plasticity.

—fear comes only when you don’t have faith in the outcome. And boredom comes only when you believe there’s nothing new worth learning. I simply can’t understand how any of that will occur today.

Restlessness is usually a sign of changes needing to be made, boredom, or loss of significance.

We must help men and women see the epic in the ordinary details of life.

Patience is the ability to enjoy the calm of boredom.