716 Quotes About Boredom

On the one hand we can't be alone, people like us; on the other we can't stand company. We can't stand male company, which bores us to death, or female company either. I gave up male company for years because it's totally unprofitable, and female company gets on my nerves in no time.

If you ever get bored, let the words scream in your head.

The problem with making a virtual world of oneself is akin to the problem with projecting ourselves onto a cyberworld: there’s no end of virtual spaces in which to seek stimulation, but their very endlessness, the perpetual stimulation without satisfaction, becomes imprisoning.

Some people are so boring that you are more bored when you are with them … than when you are alone.

Boredom can be a lethal thing on a small island.

A baby's smile is the best medicine for boredom and stress.

Eating should be an act of physical necessity or emotional joy, not something to alleviate boredom.

Boredom is probably more frequent and more tormenting if you do not have sight or hands.

And yet it is within the powers of a boring book to bore even the mind of God, as God well knows.