Boredom Quotes
- Page 2There's too much down time making movies. That leads to boredom. And that leads to trouble.
Jeremy Renner
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.
Jerome Lawrence
Morality is a venereal disease. Its primary stage is called virtue; its secondary stage, boredom; its tertiary stage, syphilis.
Karl Kraus
Something opens our wings. Something makes boredom and hurt disappear. Someone fills the cup in front of us: We taste only sacredness.
Rumi
A subject for a great poet would be God's boredom after the seventh day of creation.
Friedrich Nietzsche
In love there are no vacations. No such thing. Love has to be lived fully with its boredom and all that.
Marguerite Duras
It is the unknown that excites the ardor of scholars, who, in the known alone, would shrivel up with boredom.
Wallace Stevens
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
Teens think listening to music helps them concentrate. It doesn't. It relieves them of the boredom that concentration on homework induces.
Marilyn vos Savant
Boredom is... a vital problem for the moralist, since half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it.
Bertrand Russell
Virtuous people often revenge themselves for the constraints to which they submit by the boredom which they inspire.
Confucius
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.
John Kenneth Galbraith
As soon as you set foot on a yacht you belong to some man, not to yourself, and you die of boredom.
Coco Chanel
I fell asleep reading a dull book and dreamed I kept on reading, so I awoke from sheer boredom.
Heinrich Heine
There's no excuse to be bored. Sad, yes. Angry, yes. Depressed, yes. Crazy, yes. But there's no excuse for boredom, ever.
Viggo Mortensen