Boredom Quotes

I realized then that a man who had lived only one day could easily live for a hundred years in prison. He would have enough memories to keep him from being bored

My own business always bores me to death; I prefer other people's.

Broadly speaking, human beings may be divided into three classes: those who are billed to death, those who are worried to death, and those who are bored to death.

One sometimes says: 'He killed himself because he was bored with life.' One ought rather to say: 'He killed himself because he was bored by lack of life.'

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.

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.

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

Lady Middleton ... exerted herself to ask Mr. Palmer if there was any news in the paper. 'No, none at all,' he replied, and read on.

One receives as reward for much ennui, despondency, boredom -such as a solitude without friends, books, duties, passions must bring with it -those quarter-hours of profoundest contemplation within oneself and nature. He who completely entrenches himself against boredom also entrenches himself against himself: he will never get to drink the strongest refreshing draught from his own innermost fountain.

The average man gets his living by such depressing devices that boredom becomes a sort of natural state to him.

Real solemn history, I cannot be interested in.... The quarrels of popes and kings, with wars and pestilences in every page; the men all so good for nothing, and hardly any women at all.

Can we move this conversation along, I'm getting frightfully tired of 'hoa'.

If you want to cure boredom, be curious. If you're curious, nothing is a chore; it's automatic - you want to study. Cultivate curiosity, and life becomes an unending study of joy.

It's such a Bore Being always Poor.

One can stand anything except a succession of ordinary days

Taking sides is the beginning of sincerity, and earnestness follows shortly afterwards, and the human being becomes a bore.

There are few virtuous women who are not bored with their trade.

Any country where I am not bored is a country that teaches me nothing.

The head cannot take in more than the seat can endure.

The only way a woman can ever reform a man is by boring him so completely that he loses all possible interest in life.

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!

All mankind's unhappiness derives from one thing: his inability to know how to remain in repose in one room.

Is it life, I ask, is it even prudence, To bore thyself and bore the students?

I certainly must,' said she. 'This sensation of listlessness, weariness, stupidity, this disinclination to sit down and employ myself, this feeling of everything's being dull and insipid about the house! I must be in love; I should be the oddest creature in the world if I were not.

I do not wish you much happiness--it would bore you; I do not wish you trouble either; but, following the people's philosophy, I will simply repeat: 'Live more' and try somehow not to be too bored; this useless wish I am adding on my own.

My marriage didn't make me sad, but it didn't make me happy either. My husband and I hardly spoke to each other. This wasn't because we were angry. We had nothing to say. I was dying of boredom.

Many people, especially women, never experience boredom because they have never learned to work properly.

To escape boredom, man works either beyond what his usual needs require, or else he invents play, that is, work that is designed to quiet no need other than that for working in general.

Time. It hangs heavy for the bored, eludes the busy, flies by the for young, and runs out for the aged.

American invents everything, but the trouble is we get tired of it the minute the new is wore off.

We always get bored with those whom we bore.

I'm bored with it all. Before slipping into a coma. He died 9 days later.

Men are so willing to respect anything that bores them.

If you're watching a parade, don't follow it. It never changes. If the parade is boring, run in the opposite direction. You will fast-forward the parade.

Boredom is the legitimate kingdom of the philanthropic.

Extreme boredom provides its own antidote.

There are few wild beasts more to be dreaded than a talking man having nothing to say.

Men need some kind of external activity, because they are inactive within.

The problem in public life is learning to overcome terror; the problem in married life is learning to overcome boredom.

If we were always, indeed, getting our living, and regulating our lives according to the last and best mode we had learned, we should never be troubled with ennui.

The best way to be boring is to include everything.

The state of man is inconstancy, ennui, anxiety.

The cramped monotony of my existence grinds me away by the grain.

The tendency is to blame boredom on the environment. "This town is really dull" or "What a boring speaker." The particular town or speaker is never dull, it is you experiencing the boredom, and you can eliminate it by doing something else with your mind or energy at that moment.

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.

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

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

Ennui shortens life, and bereaves the day of its light.

If you can't stand solitude, perhaps others find you boring as well.

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

A healthy male adult bore consumes each year one and a half times his own weight in other people's patience.

Symmetry is ennui, and ennui is the very essence of grief and melancholy. Despair yawns.

Armed with a paint-box, one cannot be bored, one cannot be left at a loose end, one cannot 'have several days on one's hands.

Life swings like a pendulum backward and forward between pain and boredom.

Hence, in all countries the chief occupation of society is card-playing, and it is the gauge of its value, and an outward sign that it is bankrupt in thought. Because people have no thoughts to deal in, they deal cards, and try and win one another’s money. Idiots!

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

In a letter from Bath to her sister, Cassandra, one senses her frustration at her sheltered existence, Tuesday, 12 May 1801. Another stupid party . . . with six people to look on, and talk nonsense to each other.

The basic fact about human existence is not that it is a tragedy, but that it is a bore. It is not so much a war as an endless standing in line.

People to whom their daily life appears too empty and monotonous easily grow religious; this is comprehensible and excusable, only they have no right to demand religious sentiments from those whose daily life is not empty and monotonous.

There is something more terrible than a hell of suffering--a hell of boredom.