5 Quotes About Boredom

• The chief product of an automated society is a widespread and deepening sense of boredom.

  C. Northcote Parkinson

• One must choose in life between boredom and suffering.

  Madame de Stael

• It is the unknown that excites the ardor of scholars, who, in the known alone, would shrivel up with boredom.

  Wallace Stevens

• Morality is a venereal disease. Its primary stage is called virtue; its secondary stage, boredom; its tertiary stage, syphilis.

  Karl Kraus

• Boredom is a fearsome prospect. There's a limit to the number of cars and microwaves you can buy. What do you do then?

  J. G. Ballard

• Boredom, after all, is a form of criticism.

  Wendell Phillips

• It is only a step from boredom to disillusionment, which leads naturally to self-pity, which in turn ends in chaos.

  Manly Hall

• There isn't much of a music scene in Hermann, unless you like polka. But the landscape I grew up in is a part of me. I spent a lot of time in the woods doing a lot of nothing to break the boredom.

  Nathaniel Rateliff

• Banality is like boredom: bored people are boring people, people who think that things are banal are themselves banal. Interesting people can find something interesting in all things.

  Idries Shah

• When we hold back out of laziness, that is when we tie ourselves into knots of boredom.

  Walter Annenberg

• The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

• You'll find boredom where there is the absence of a good idea.

  Earl Nightingale

• It's the boredom that kills you. You read until you're tired of that. You do crossword puzzles until you're tired of that. This is torture. This is mental torture.

  Jack Kevorkian

• To do the same thing over and over again is not only boredom: it is to be controlled by rather than to control what you do.

  Heraclitus

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• The sightless Milton, with his hair Around his placid temples curled; And Shakespeare at his side,-a freight, If clay could think and mind were weight, For him who bore the world!

  William Wordsworth

• Thanks to Twitter, iPads, BlackBerrys, voice-activated in-dash navigation systems, and a hundred other technologies that offer distraction anywhere, anytime, boredom has loosened its grip on us at last - that once-crushing 'weight' has become, for the most part, a memory.

  Walter Kirn

• He regards boredom, I observe, as the One and Mighty Enemy of his soul. And will succeed in conquering it, I am sure—if he survives the experience.

  Dorothy Dunnett

• My definition of what makes a journey wholly or partially horrible is boredom.

  Martha Gellhorn

• Of course boredom may lead you to anything. It is boredom sets one sticking golden pins into people, but all that would not matter. What is bad (this is my comment again) is that I dare say people will be thankful for the gold pins then.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

• One receives as reward for much ennui, despondency, boredom -such as a solitude without friends, books, duties, passions must bring with it -those quarter-hours of profoundest contemplation within oneself and nature. He who completely entrenches himself against boredom also entrenches himself against himself: he will never get to drink the strongest refreshing draught from his own innermost fountain.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

• monotony is not to be worshipped as a virtue; nor the marriage bed treated as a coffin for security rather than a couch from which to rise refreshed.

  Freya Stark

• Ennui is the disease of hearts without feeling, and of minds without resources.

  Madame Roland

• ... except in the eyes of a few fanatics (untrustworthy as all lovers) an unmitigated expanse of water is dull even when blue: not in a small boat, where you are part of the winds and currents and tides and are allowed to hold the tiller now and then; but from those decks which the shipping companies with subconscious insight try to make as suburban as possible so that the impact of the monster outside may be lessened, and where the unrecognized boredom is so deep that a wispy smear of smoke on the horizon will queue up a crowd as if for a Valkyrie passing.

  Freya Stark

• Boredom is the self being stuffed with itself.

  Walker Percy

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Perhaps the world’s second worst crime is boredom. The first is being a bore. – Sir Cecil Walter Hardy Beaton

Boredom is like a pitiless zooming in on the epidermis of time. Every instant is dilated and magnified like the pores of the face. – Charlotte Whitton

Quotes About Boredom From Philosophers

Is boredom anything less than the sense of one’s faculties slowly dying? – John Berger

Boredom is not an end product, is comparatively rather an early stage in life and art. You’ve got to go by or past or through boredom, as through a filter, before the clear product emerges. – F. Scott Fitzgerald

Everyone is a bore to someone. That is unimportant. The thing to avoid is being a bore to oneself. – Gerald Brenan

Cherish forever what makes you unique, ‘cuz you’re really a yawn if it goes. – Bette Midler

No society ever seems to have succumbed to boredom. Man has developed an obvious capacity for surviving the pompous reiteration of the commonplace. – John Kenneth Galbraith

If you’re bored with life — you don’t get up every morning with a burning desire to do things — you don’t have enough goals. – Lou Holtz

A bore is a man who, when you ask him how he is, tells you. – Bert Leston Taylor

The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity. – Ellen Parr

They sicken of the calm, who knew the storm. – Dorothy Parker

Boredom is just the reverse side of fascination: both depend on being outside rather than inside a situation, and one leads to the other. – Susan Sontag

An Extra Thought About Boredom:

5 Quotes About Boredom Stress

Many people mistake quietness for boredom. Especially young people! If they’re unstimulated for at least 10 minutes, they immediately assume that they’re bored.

Famous Quotes About Boredom

Yet it’s very beneficial to allow yourself at least 15 minutes a day doing absolutely, positively nothing. A period of time where you don’t have to answer to anybody, and they don’t have to answer to you. It’s like a mini-vacation for your psyche!

5 Quotes About Boredom Make You

Truth be told, your psyche doesn’t care for being overstimulated every minute of the day. Give it the rest it desires and, soon enough, you’ll find yourself looking forward to these quiet moments.