716 Quotes About Boredom

[On Senator Everett Dirksen:] His great enemy was boredom and he won every engagement.

Painting bores me like everything else. Unfortunately, painting is one of the activities - it is bound up in the series of activities - that seems to change almost nothing in life, the same habits are always recurring.

A person with friends need never be bored. There is always more to fathom and enjoy in the complexity of others, and always the possibility of finding a way to delight them.

The way to recognize a dead word is that it exudes boredom.

The enemy of good television is boredom and predictability.

I was sailing from tedium to apathy with a side trip to torpor.

I'm rather bored by the subject - meaning me. It's a sort of a yoke, but at times you know, a yoke is a kind of comfort. And it's always there.

Boredom is the effort used in suppressing something negative.

I finally overcame my phobia, and now I approach flying with a sort of studied boredom - a learned habit, thanks to my learn-to-fly-calmly training - but like all former flying phobics, I retain a weird and feverish fascination with aviation news, especially bad news.