Boredom Quotes

Boredom is always counter-revolutionary. Always.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

Discussing how old you are is the temple of boredom.

Without lies humanity would perish of despair and boredom.

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

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