716 Quotes About Boredom

You are not told that while you try to eliminate your boredom by playing games and chatting on social media or watching movies and making unnecessary phone calls; your life is diminishing into vanity.

This ignorance of what to do with time is the number one reason why people get bored so easily when alone with nothing to do.

I know so much pressure is on all of us to waste time and to just trivialize it. There is so much pressure on us to try to overcome boredom by spending time on frivolities.

So strange is the human being that in the midst of my new life and fulfilled wishes, I was sometimes aware of a slight, fleeting, subconscious desire for solitude, for even boring and empty days. It seemed to me that the time I had spent at home and the dreary uneventful life from which I was so glad to escape, was something desirable.

Only a fraction of sane people enjoy their own company. The rest endure it.

There is so much pressure on us to try to overcome boredom by spending time on frivolities.

My heart almost died within me; miserable longings strained its chords. How long were the September days! How silent, how lifeless!

Las personas con un alto nivel de tolerancia al aburrimiento tienen tiempo de sobra para pensar.

It becomes clear when you love silence, boredom and hard work. For the wise it's play. For the ordinary it's hell.