Boredom Quotes

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.'

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

Boredom is always counter-revolutionary. Always.

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.

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?

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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