Top 794 Boredom Quotes & Sayings - Page 5
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Last updated on April 20, 2025.
Work is the world's easiest escape from boredom and the only surefire road to success.
Boredom is not black licorice, Snicket," she said. "There's no reason to share it with me.
Boredom is a certain sign that we are allowing our faculties to rust in idleness.
What's the use of talking? You can see for yourself that this is a barbarous country; the people have no morals; and the boredom!
Perhaps the world's second-worst crime is boredom; the first is being a bore.
I wanted to get that sense of peace and even boredom that comes with long familiarity.
Boredom and stupidity and patriotism, especially when combined, are three of the greatest evils of the world we live in.
Boredom is the specter that haunts children from kindergarten to graduation on every continent.
It is not enough to accept boredom, you must embrace it. It is only when you have completely embraced it that you can go beyond it.
Living, just by itself - what a dirge that is! Life is a classroom and Boredom's the usher, there all the time to spy on you.
The effect of boredom on a large scale in history is underestimated. It is a main cause of revolutions.
The main thing I got from growing up in a suburb is the boredom you have as a child.
Boredom turns a man to sex, a woman to shopping, and it drives newscasters berserk.
The prospect of being pleased tomorrow will never console me for the boredom of today.
Running through things because you are familiar with them, breeds routine and this is the seed of boredom.
The Postmodernists' tyranny wears people down by boredom and semi-literate prose.
Vanity, revenge, loneliness, boredom, all apply: lust is one of the least of the reasons for promiscuity.
Turning fifty ... is like flying: hours of boredom punctuated by moments of sheer terror.
When you consider how epidemic boredom is in our time, you have to concede that entertaining is a healing art.
Boredom ... causes us to neglect more duties than does interest.
I know how to paint... In a way there is a boredom there because a lot of the magic is gone.
Audacious ribald: your laughter will finish in hideous boredom before morning.
Work spares us from three evils: boredom, vice, and need.
It is remarkable, in cats, that the outer life they reveal to their masters is one of perpetual boredom.
Boredom has an important function, because pushing through it can unleash creativity.
This is the curse of our age, even the strangest aberrations are no cure for boredom.
From every Englishman emanates a kind of gas, the deadly choke-damp of boredom.
I always liked routine. I suppose I never found boredom very boring.
Give me boredom. At least I know where I'm going to eat and sleep tonight.
Mid-grade readers don't have short attention spans, they just have low boredom tolerance.
This is the treason of the artist: a refusal to admit the banality of evil and the terrible boredom of pain.
Boredom is a fearsome prospect. There's a limit to the number of cars and microwaves you can buy. What do you do then?
As soon as you set foot on a yacht you belong to some man, not to yourself, and you die of boredom.
[On Senator Everett Dirksen:] His great enemy was boredom and he won every engagement.
Life swings like a pendulum backward and forward between pain and boredom.
There are 6 reasons that a person does anything: Love, faith, greed, boredom, fear... revenge.
In marketing you must choose between boredom, shouting and seduction. Which do you want?
Freedom without any purpose feels a whole lot like boredom.
One would expect boredom to be a great yawning emotion, but it isn't, of course. It's a small niggling thing.
...boredom is all about perception. It's a self-diagnosis, plain and simple. If you don't realize you're bored, you're not.
A universal basic income doesn't give people dignity or protect them from boredom and vice.
Do you suppose the human race invented boredom to make the prospect of death more palatable?
A subject for a great poet would be God's boredom after the seventh day of creation.
Miss Searle had always considered boredom an intellectual defeat.
Over-excitement and boredom are states of mind which I equally shun.
I always say, 'Books beat boredom,' said Amanda wisely.
We have seen the best minds of our generation destroyed by boredom at poetry readings.
The one sure means of dealing with boredom is to care for someone else, to do something kind and good.
Boredom, that silent spider, was spinning its web in the darkness in every corner of her heart.
Beneath a mask of selfish tranquility nothing exists except bitterness and boredom.
It is the unknown that excites the ardor of scholars, who, in the known alone, would shrivel up with boredom.
The essence of life is the smile of round female bottoms, under the shadow of cosmic boredom.
They had not yet attained the stupefying boredom of omnipotence; their experiments did not always succeed.
No-limit hold'em- Hours of boredom followed by moments of sheer terror.
Boredom dismantles the mind, renders it superficial, out at the seams, saps it from within and dislocates it.
I have no tolerance for boredom. I spend so many hours in the office, and I still love it.
Escape from boredom is one of the really powerful desires of almost all human beings.
As for boredom ... I notice that it leaves me as soon as I am doing something that has got to be done.
Perhaps the world's second worst crime is boredom. The first is being a bore.
It seems that boredom is one of the greatest discoveries of our time. If so, there's no question but that he must be considered a pioneer.
