Boredom Quotes

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.

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

Running through things because you are familiar with them, breeds routine and this is the seed of boredom.

I don't believe in an afterlife, so I don't have to spend my whole life fearing hell, or fearing heaven even more. For whatever the tortures of hell, I think the boredom of heaven would be even worse.

The essence of life is the smile of round female bottoms, under the shadow of cosmic boredom.

Boredom, after all, is a form of criticism.

As soon as you set foot on a yacht you belong to some man, not to yourself, and you die of boredom.

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

I've got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom.

Your true traveller finds boredom rather agreeable than painful. It is the symbol of his liberty - his excessive freedom. He accepts his boredom, when it comes, not merely philosophically, but almost with pleasure.

Variety is more than a means of avoiding boredom, since art is more than an entertainment of the senses.

Boredom: the desire for desires.

Much is forgiven anyone who relieves the desperate boredom of the working press.

People of Wealth and the so called upper class suffer the most from boredom.

Only the most acute and active animals are capable of boredom. - A theme for a great poet would be God's boredom on the seventh day of creation.

The presidency has many problems, but boredom is the least of them.

Boredom is the dream bird that hatches the egg of experience. A rustling in the leaves drives him away.

He who seeks rest finds boredom. He who seeks work finds rest.

How some of the writers I come across get through their books without dying of boredom is beyond me.

For boredom speaks the language of time, and it is to teach you the most valuable lesson of your life - the lesson of your utter insignificance.

Discussing how old you are is the temple of boredom.

Without lies humanity would perish of despair and boredom.

I can excuse everything but boredom. Boring people don't have to stay that way.

There's too much down time making movies. That leads to boredom. And that leads to trouble.

Before, for me, peace could have been synonymous with boredom.

Our only competition in the theater is boredom, because if I'm bored with a play, if I'm revolted by a play on stage, with the Broadway prices, especially today, I'm going to walk out and not come back and pay that price again.

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.