Boredom Quotes

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.

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?

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.

Airline travel is hours of boredom interrupted by moments of stark terror.

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.

It is not the simple statement of facts that ushers in freedom; it is the constant repetition of them that has this liberating effect. Tolerance is the result not of enlightenment, but of boredom.

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

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

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.'

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

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

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.

Boredom is always counter-revolutionary. Always.

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

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?

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.

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 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.

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.

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