#Boredom Quotes

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

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

“I'm so bored with it all.”

“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 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.”

“There is no purpose in living where there is nothing to do.”

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

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

“Life is never boring, but some people choose to be bored.”

“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.”

“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.”

“Boredom is the legitimate kingdom of the philanthropic.”

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

“The secret of being a bore... is to tell everything.”

“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.”

“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.”

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

“Everything being a constant carnival, there is no carnival left.”

“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.'”

“Martin in particular concluded that man was born to live either in the convulsions of misery, or in the lethargy of boredom.”

“Work is the law of life, and to reject it as boredom is to submit to it as torment.”

“In a world which furnishes so many employments which are useful, and so many which are amusing, it is our own fault if we ever know what ennui [boredom] is, or if we are ever driven to the miserable resource of gaming, which corrupts our dispositions, and teaches us a habit of hostility against all mankind.”

“The best way to be boring is to include everything.”

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

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

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

“You get a little stir crazy during the week.”

“LADY STUTFIELD I adore silent men. MRS ALLONBY Oh, Ernest isn't silent. He talks the whole time. But he has got no conversation. What he talks about I don't know. I haven't listened to him for years.”

“Art creates an incomparable and unique effect, and, having done so, passes on to other things. Nature, upon the other hand, forgetting that that imitation can be made the sincerest form of insult, keeps on repeating this effect until we all become absolutely wearied of it.”

“Writing bores me so.”

“When I get real bored, I like to drive downtown and get a great parking spot, then sit in my car and count how many people ask if I'm leaving.”

“A bore is someone who deprives you of solitude without providing you with company.”

“I begin with the principle that all men are bores. Surely no one will prove himself so great a bore as to contradict me in this.”

“Conversation about the weather is the last refuge of the unimaginative.”

“A terrible thing happened to me last night again—nothing.”

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

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

“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.”

“Men are so willing to respect anything that bores them.”

“How slow and still the time did drag along.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

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

“He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. Is not life a hundred times too short for us to bore ourselves?”

“It's such a Bore Being always Poor.”

“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.”

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

“Without a job all there is to life is boredom and insecurity.”

“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.”