Quotes on Boredom

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

Author: Coco Chanel

Even boredom has its crises.

Author: Mason Cooley

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.

Author: Quentin Crisp

Boredom is always counter-revolutionary. Always.

Author: Guy Debord

Without lies humanity would perish of despair and boredom.

Author: Anatole France

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

Author: James Galway

Sooner barbarity than boredom.

Author: Theophile Gautier

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

Author: Manly Hall

The Beatles saved the world from boredom.

Author: George Harrison

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

Author: Heinrich Heine

Is boredom anything less than the sense of one's faculties slowly dying?

Author: Arthur Helps

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.

Author: Dustin Hoffman

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.

Author: Aldous Huxley

It's precisely in those moments when I don't know what to do, boredom drives one to try a host of possibilities to either get somewhere or not get anywhere.

Author: Anish Kapoor

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.

Author: Jack Kevorkian

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

Author: Soren Kierkegaard

I know when I'm working I seldom get into trouble. My educated guess is that boredom has caused most of the problems with Hollywood celebrities.

Author: Hedy Lamarr

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.

Author: Jerome Lawrence

There's no excuse to be bored. Sad, yes. Angry, yes. Depressed, yes. Crazy, yes. But there's no excuse for boredom, ever.

Author: Viggo Mortensen

The presidency has many problems, but boredom is the least of them.

Author: Richard Nixon

Boredom, after all, is a form of criticism.

Author: Wendell Phillips

Miss Searle had always considered boredom an intellectual defeat.

Author: Mary Renault

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

Author: Rumi

One should only see a psychiatrist out of boredom.

Author: Muriel Spark

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

Author: Wallace Stevens

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

Author: Peter Straub

Boredom is rage spread thin.

Author: Paul Tillich

Who wants a world in which the guarantee that we shall not die of starvation entails the risk of dying of boredom?

Author: Raoul Vaneigem

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

Author: William Weld

In marketing you must choose between boredom, shouting and seduction. Which do you want?

Author: Roy Williams

Boredom is the legitimate kingdom of the philanthropic.

Author: Virginia Woolf

Writer's block is the greatest side effect of boredom.

Author: Jason Zebehazy

Quotes on Boredom

When we hold back out of laziness, that is when we tie ourselves into knots of boredom.

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

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

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.

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.

Boredom is always counter-revolutionary. Always.

Without lies humanity would perish of despair and boredom.

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

Sooner barbarity than boredom.

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

The Beatles saved the world from boredom.

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

Is boredom anything less than the sense of one's faculties slowly dying?

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.

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.

It's precisely in those moments when I don't know what to do, boredom drives one to try a host of possibilities to either get somewhere or not get anywhere.

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.

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

I know when I'm working I seldom get into trouble. My educated guess is that boredom has caused most of the problems with Hollywood celebrities.

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.

There's no excuse to be bored. Sad, yes. Angry, yes. Depressed, yes. Crazy, yes. But there's no excuse for boredom, ever.

The presidency has many problems, but boredom is the least of them.

Boredom, after all, is a form of criticism.

Miss Searle had always considered boredom an intellectual defeat.

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

One should only see a psychiatrist out of boredom.

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

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

Boredom is rage spread thin.

Who wants a world in which the guarantee that we shall not die of starvation entails the risk of dying of boredom?

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

In marketing you must choose between boredom, shouting and seduction. Which do you want?

Boredom is the legitimate kingdom of the philanthropic.

Writer's block is the greatest side effect of boredom.