Boredom Quotes and Sayings

A bore is a man who, when you ask him how he is, tells you.

Boredom: the desire for desires.

Boredom flourishes too, when you feel safe. It’s a symptom of security.

If you knew what you were doing, you’d probably be bored.

The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity.

Everyone is a bore to someone. That is unimportant. The thing to avoid is being a bore to oneself.

Every hero becomes a bore at last.

The capacity of human beings to bore one another seems to be vastly greater than that of any other animal.

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

Life is never boring, but some people choose to be bored.

Against boredom the gods themselves fight in vain.

What is this, an audience or an oil painting?

People who have nothing to do are quickly tired of their own company.

Boredom and fear keep us working and obeying the laws.

One eventually has enough even of oneself.

Boredom comes from a boring mind.

Only those who want everything done for them are bored.

In order to live free and happily, you must sacrifice boredom. It is not always an easy sacrifice.

Being bored is an insult to oneself.

All kinds are good except the kind that bores you.

Boredom is the self being stuffed with itself.

The secret of being a bore is to tell everything.

I spent a year in that town, one Sunday.

The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore.

When people are bored, it is primarily with their own selves that they are bored.

The penalty for success is to be bored by the people who used to snub you.

If you’re bored with life – you don’t get up every morning with a burning desire to do things – you don’t have enough goals.

The concept of boredom entails an inability to use up present moments in a personally fulfilling way.

When a man bores a woman, she complains. When a woman bores a man, he ignores her.

A yawn is more disconcerting than a contradiction.

Baseball is dull only to dull minds.

The most costly disease is not cancer or coronaries. The most costly disease is boredom – costly for
both individual and society.

Life is never boring, but some people choose to be bored.

He who seeks rest finds boredom. He who seeks work finds rest.