Top 100+ Famous Boredom Quotes

Famous Boredom Quotes

Boredom always precedes a period of great creativity. – Robert M. Pirsig

You’ll find boredom where there is the absence of a good idea. – Earl Nightingale

Boredom is a sickness the cure for which is work, pleasure is only a palliative. – Le Duc De Lvis

Boredom is the root of all evil the despairing refusal to be oneself. – Soren Kierkegaard

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

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

I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead, I lift my eyes and all is born again. – The Bell Jar

Boredom is an emptiness filled with insistence. – Leo Stein

Boredom Quotes

Grasp your opportunities, no matter how poor your health, nothing is worse for your health than boredom. – Mignon McLaughlin

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

The biggest bore is the person who is bored by everyone and everything. – Frank Tyger

Variety is more than a means of avoiding boredom, since art is more than an entertainment of the senses. – Rudolf Arnheim

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

The chief product of an automated society is a widespread and deepening sense of boredom. – C. Northcote Parkinson

Nobody is bored when he is trying to make something that is beautiful, or to discover something that is true. – William Inge

The man who suspects his own tediousness is yet to be born. – Thomas Bailey Aldrich

Boredom Quotes

Boredom comes from a boring mind. – Metallica

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

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

Boredom is not an end-product, is comparatively rather an early stage in life and art. You’ve got to go by or past or through boredom, as through a filter, before the clear product emerges.

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

The truth is that everyone is bored, and devotes himself to cultivating habits. – Albert Camus

Boredom is the legitimate kingdom of the philanthropic. – Virginia Woolf

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

Boredom Quotes

The inexorable boredom that is at the core of life. – Jacques Benigne 

The best cure for boredom is hard work. – Proverb

Boredom is the conviction that you can’t change’the shriek of unused capacities. – Saul Bellow

Boredom is the dream bird that hatches the egg of experience. A rustling in the leaves drives him away. – Walter Benjamin 

Men are seldom more commonplace than on supreme occasions. – Samuel Butler

I’ve got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom. – Thomas Carlyle 

Every improvement in communication makes the bore more terrible. – Frank Moore Colby

Boredom can be a lethal thing on a small island. – Christopher Moore

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

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

Nobody is bored when he is trying to make something that is beautiful, or to discover something that is true. – William Inge

Boredom Quotes

The awkward moment when you can’t tell the difference between hunger and boredom.The presidency has many problems, but boredom is the least of them. – Richard M Nixon 

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

Boredom is the self being stuffed with itself. – Walker Percy

Boredom is a disease of the mind and psyche, an insidious disease. It not only takes the joy out of life, but the creativity as well. No one of God’s children should ever be bored with life.

Boredom is the conviction that you can’t change the shriek of unused capacities. – Saul Bellow

Boredom is nothing but the experience of a paralysis of our productive powers. – Erich Fromm

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

Boredom Quotes

Boredom is my worst enemy. It’s killed a lot of my friends, but it won’t get me. When I get bored, I go risk my life somewhere. – Larry Niven

One wonders what would happen in a society in which there were no rules to break. Doubtless everyone would quickly die of boredom. – Susan Howitch

The life of the creative man is lead, directed and controlled by boredom. Avoiding boredom is one of our most important purposes. – Susan Sontag

Boredom, that silent spider, was spinning its web in the darkness in every corner of her heart. – Gustave Flaubert

The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity. – Ellen Parr

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

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

No place is boring, if you’ve had a good night’s sleep and have a pocket full of unexposed film. – Robert Adams

Punctuality is the virtue of the bored. – Evelyn Waugh

A bore is a man who, when you ask him how he is, tells you. – Bert Leston Taylor

Boredom Quotes

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

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

Boredom and fear keep us working and obeying the laws.

All kinds are good except the kind that bores you. – Voltair

The opposite of happiness is not sadness it’s boredom.

I can excuse everything but boredom. Boring people don’t have to stay that way. – Hedy Lamarr

Running through things because you are familiar with them, breeds routine and this is the seed of boredom. – James Galway

The war between being and nothingness is the underlying illness of the twentieth century. Boredom stays more of existence than war. – Norman Mailer

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

Boredom is simply the absence of an interesting perspective. – Brandon A Trean