quotations about boredom
Work banishes those three great evils, boredom, vice, and poverty.
VOLTAIRE
Candide
Something opens our wings. Something makes boredom and hurt disappear. Someone fills the cup in front of us: We taste only sacredness.
RUMI
attributed, Oh My Beloved!: Seven Lessons in Sacred Relationship
Doing anything when you're bored is very very boring. Anyway, doing nothing is the point of being bored. The pleasure of being bored is mooning about and doing nothing.
AIDAN CHAMBERS
This Is All
I would rather die of passion than of boredom.
EMILE ZOLA
The Ladies' Paradise
Boredom comes simply from ignorance and lack of imagination.
SUSAN ERTZ
Anger in the Sky
Life is never boring but some people choose to be bored. The concept of boredom entails an inability to use up present moments in a personally fulfilling way. Boredom is a choice; something you visit upon yourself, and it is another of those self-defeating items that you can eliminate from your life.
WAYNE W. DYER
Your Erroneous Zones
I'm going to let you in on a little secret about life. You think it's boring now? Well, it only gets more boring. The sooner you learn it's on you to make life interesting, the better off you'll be.
MARIA SEMPLE
Where'd You Go, Bernadette
Want and boredom are indeed the twin poles of human life.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER
"On the Suffering of the World,", Essays and Aphorisms
Description is always a bore, both to the describer and to the describee.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI
Home Letters
Boredom was my bedmate and it was hogging the sheets.
ANDREW DAVIDSON
The Gargoyle
He had been bored, that's all, bored like most people. Hence he had made himself out of whole cloth a life full of complications and drama. Something must happen - and that explains most human commitments. Something must happen, even loveless slavery, even war or death. Hurray then for funerals!
ALBERT CAMUS
The Fall
Ennui, the demon, waited at the threshold of his noiseless refuge, and drove away the stirring hopes and elivening expectations, which form the better part of life.
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT SHELLEY
Lodore
Boredom is what you fight. Constant, ever-present boredom. So you learn to look forward to small things. Sunlight glimpsed through a cloud, an extra piece of pie or candy, good thread to sew your blouse, a ribbon to wear in your hair.
VALERIE W. WESLEY
Playing My Mother's Blues
In the beginning was boredom, commonly called chaos. God, bored with boredom, created the earth, the sky, the waters, the animals, the plants, Adam and Eve; and the latter, bored in their turn in paradise, ate the forbidden fruit. God became bored with them and drove them out of Eden.
ALBERTO MORAVIA
La Noia
Eventually, boredom means you will take up golf.
JEREMY CLARKSON
The World According to Clarkson
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 Conquest of Happiness
Against boredom even the gods struggle in vain.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE
The Antichrist
She refused to be bored chiefly because she wasn't boring.
ZELDA FITZGERALD
"Eulogy on the Flapper", Metropolitan Magazine, June 1922
I think that the word bored does not get the attention it deserves. We speak of all sorts of terrible things that happen to people, but we rarely speak about one of the most terrible things of all : that is, being bored, being bored alone and, worse than that, being bored together.
ERICH FROMM
Love, Sexuality and Matriarchy
Nothing is so stifling as symmetry. Symmetry is boredom, the quintessence of mourning. Despair yawns. There is something more terrible than a hell of suffering -- a hell of boredom.
VICTOR HUGO
Les Misérables