716 Quotes About Boredom

Long-term boredom can't lead to anything good.

The function of music is to release us from the boredom of existence.

One wonders what would happen in a society in which there were no rules to break. Doubtless everyone would quickly die of boredom.

Punk was a protest against work and against boredom. It was a sign of life, a rant, a scream, a rejection of bourgeois morals. But have things improved since then? Arguably, they've got worse.

Idleness allows you to turn a situation from boredom to pleasure.

Life has been reduced to a series of long periods of boredom in the office punctuated by high-octane "experiences" which you can rack up on your list of things to do before you die. That's not really living: that is slavery with the occasional circus thrown in.

Symmetry is tedious, and tedium is the very basis of mourning. Despair yawns.

There is something more terrible than a hell of suffering--a hell of boredom.

You are never tired of painting, because you have to set down not what you know already, but what you have just discovered.