Boredom Quotes

Even boredom has its crises.

For all the boredom the straight life brings, it's not too bad.

Boredom is the root of all evil - the despairing refusal to be oneself.

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.

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.

Boredom is... a vital problem for the moralist, since half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it.

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.

Economics is a subject profoundly conducive to cliche, resonant with boredom. On few topics is an American audience so practiced in turning off its ears and minds. And none can say that the response is ill advised.

I fell asleep reading a dull book and dreamed I kept on reading, so I awoke from sheer boredom.

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

Virtuous people often revenge themselves for the constraints to which they submit by the boredom which they inspire.

One should only see a psychiatrist out of boredom.

Flying is hours and hours of boredom sprinkled with a few seconds of sheer terror.

Boredom is the legitimate kingdom of the philanthropic.

It's precisely in those moments when I don't know what to do, boredom drives one to try a host of possibilities to either get somewhere or not get anywhere.

Boredom or being sick of what you've done before is a big part of being in a band.

This is the curse of our age, even the strangest aberrations are no cure for boredom.

I know when I'm working I seldom get into trouble. My educated guess is that boredom has caused most of the problems with Hollywood celebrities.

One must choose in life between boredom and suffering.

Miss Searle had always considered boredom an intellectual defeat.

There's no excuse to be bored. Sad, yes. Angry, yes. Depressed, yes. Crazy, yes. But there's no excuse for boredom, ever.

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

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

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.

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

The Beatles saved the world from boredom.

The boredom occasioned by too much restraint is always preferable to that produced by an uncontrolled enthusiasm for a pointless variety.

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