Boredom Quotes

Without lies humanity would perish of despair and boredom.

How some of the writers I come across get through their books without dying of boredom is beyond me.

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.

Discussing how old you are is the temple of boredom.

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

I can excuse everything but boredom. Boring people don't have to stay that way.

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

There's too much down time making movies. That leads to boredom. And that leads to trouble.

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.

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

The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom.

Something opens our wings. Something makes boredom and hurt disappear. Someone fills the cup in front of us: We taste only sacredness.

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

A subject for a great poet would be God's boredom after the seventh day of creation.

For all the boredom the straight life brings, it's not too bad.

Boredom is the root of all evil - the despairing refusal to be oneself.

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.

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

Jump out the window if you are the object of passion. Flee it if you feel it. Passion goes, boredom remains.

Even boredom has its crises.

Morality is a venereal disease. Its primary stage is called virtue; its secondary stage, boredom; its tertiary stage, syphilis.

Virtuous people often revenge themselves for the constraints to which they submit by the boredom which they inspire.

One should only see a psychiatrist out of boredom.

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.

I fell asleep reading a dull book and dreamed I kept on reading, so I awoke from sheer boredom.

Boredom or being sick of what you've done before is a big part of being in a band.

In love there are no vacations. No such thing. Love has to be lived fully with its boredom and all that.

Flying is hours and hours of boredom sprinkled with a few seconds of sheer terror.

Boredom is the legitimate kingdom of the philanthropic.

Teens think listening to music helps them concentrate. It doesn't. It relieves them of the boredom that concentration on homework induces.