716 Quotes About Boredom

Worry is like a rocking chair-it keeps you busy but gets you nowhere.

Give me boredom. At least I know where I'm going to eat and sleep tonight.

Boredom was at the root of Lazare's unhappiness, an oppressive, unremitting boredom, exuding from everything like the muddy water of a poisoned spring. He was bored with leisure, with work, with himself even more than with others. Meanwhile he blamed his own idleness for it, he ended by being ashamed of it.

Lazy people live lonely lives.

But I know too that if we ever make a world without shadow, if the chemists and scientists and psychologists succeed in abolishing fear, pain, loneliness, death, some of us will find life so intolerable we will probably blow out our brains out of sheer boredom.

One would expect boredom to be a great yawning emotion, but it isn't, of course. It's a small niggling thing.

Everyone is a bore to someone. That is unimportant. The thing to avoid is being a bore to oneself.

She thought of the last couple of years: the boredom, the narrowness of existence, the dearth of anything to look forward to. Yet now, in a single instant, the curtains had been whipped aside, and the windows been thrown open onto a brillant view that had been there, waiting for her, all the time. A view, moreover, laden with the most marvellous possibilities and opportunities.

Many books are longer than they seem. They have indeed no end. The boredom that they cause is truly absolute and infinite.