Boredom Quotes

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

Since boredom advances and boredom is the root of all evil, no wonder, then, that the world goes backwards, that evil spreads. This can be traced back to the very beginning of the world. The gods were bored; therefore they created human beings.

Sooner barbarity than boredom.

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

Isn't history ultimately the result of our fear of boredom?

I wanted to get that sense of peace and even boredom that comes with long familiarity.

The Beatles saved the world from boredom.

Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time; serenity, that nothing is.

Idle people are often bored and bored people, unless they sleep a lot, are cruel. It is not accident that boredom and cruelty are great preoccupations in our time.

As actors, the thing we have to fight, more than even the business part of making movies, is boredom.

Perhaps the world's second worst crime is boredom. The first is being a bore.

There's a rebirth that goes on with us continuously as human beings. I don't understand, personally, how you can be bored. I can understand how you can be depressed, but I just don't understand boredom.

Jump out the window if you are the object of passion. Flee it if you feel it. Passion goes, boredom remains.

Boredom is rage spread thin.

The life of the creative man is lead, directed and controlled by boredom. Avoiding boredom is one of our most important purposes.

In order to live free and happily you must sacrifice boredom. It is not always an easy sacrifice.

In marketing you must choose between boredom, shouting and seduction. Which do you want?

I wanted to make good records. But my problem is I've got a low boredom threshold, so I wanted it to look and sound different with each album, which is really tantamount to suicide, cause people lose it, they lose it - they say: 'I like that, and that's not this.'

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

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

If I planned everything out in advance, I'd expire of boredom.

Perhaps the world's second worst crime is boredom. The first is being a bore.

Boredom is always counter-revolutionary. Always.

In love there are no vacations. No such thing. Love has to be lived fully with its boredom and all that.

I fear the boredom that comes with not learning and not taking chances.

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

Who wants a world in which the guarantee that we shall not die of starvation entails the risk of dying of boredom?

Is boredom anything less than the sense of one's faculties slowly dying?

Teens think listening to music helps them concentrate. It doesn't. It relieves them of the boredom that concentration on homework induces.

I've made a career over the last seventeen years of mostly playing men in uniform, especially cops. The one thing for an actor that is death, is if you're bored. The boredom will show in your work.