716 Quotes About Boredom

He regards boredom, I observe, as the One and Mighty Enemy of his soul. And will succeed in conquering it, I am sure—if he survives the experience.

The so-called conscientiousness of the majority of painters is only perfection applied to the art of boring.

Boredom is always counter-revolutionary. Always.

Boredom and stupidity and patriotism, especially when combined, are three of the greatest evils of the world we live in.

The tendency is to blame boredom on the environment. "This town is really dull" or "What a boring speaker." The particular town or speaker is never dull, it is you experiencing the boredom, and you can eliminate it by doing something else with your mind or energy at that moment.

Life is never boring, but some people choose to be bored.

The concept of boredom entails an inability to use up present moments in a personally fulfilling way.

The British may be reluctant to storm the plane with so many women and children on board. They're more likely to simply use boredom as a weapon, waiting out the crisis and letting the hijackers tire and then later offering them a way out.

Nobody has any right to find life uninteresting or unrewarding who sees within the sphere of his own activity a wrong he can help to remedy, or within himself an evil he can hope to overcome.