Quotes on Boredom

No man should go through life without once experiencing healthy, even bored solitude in the wilderness, finding himself depending solely on himself and thereby learning his true and hidden strength

Boredom is your window on the properties of time that one tends to ignore to the likely peril of one's mental equilibrium. It is your window on time's infinity. Once this window opens, don't try to shut it; on the contrary, throw it wide open.

I’m bored’ is a useless thing to say. I mean, you live in a great, big, vast world that you’ve seen none percent of. Even the inside of your own mind is endless; it goes on forever, inwardly, do you understand? The fact that you’re alive is amazing, so you don’t get to say ‘I’m bored.

For I have neither wit, nor words, nor worth, Action, nor utterance, nor the power of speech, To stir men's blood: I only speak right on; I tell you that which you yourselves do know.

A bit of theory as we settle down for lunch: the waiter's treatment of Kitty is actually a kind of sandwich, with the bottom bread being the bored and slightly effete way he normally acts with customers, the middle being the crazed and abnormal way he feels around this famous nineteen-year-old girl, and the top bread being his attempt to contain and conceal this alien middle layer with some mode of behavior that at least approximates the bottom layer of boredom and effeteness that is his norm.

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

The chief product of an automated society is a widespread and deepening sense of boredom.

Banality is like boredom: bored people are boring people, people who think that things are banal are themselves banal. Interesting people can find something interesting in all things.

Boredom is the dream bird that hatches the egg of experience. A rustling in the leaves drives him away.

In your life’s journey, there will be excitement and fulfillment, boredom and routine, and even the occasional train wreck… But when you have picked a dream that is bigger than you personally, that truly reflects the ideals that you cherish, and that can positively affect others, then you will always have another reason for carrying on.

People collect boredom, they hoard it, they wallow in it, hoping that one day it'll be of interest and become an effete ennui. Let me tell you, it doesn't.

The Postmodernists' tyranny wears people down by boredom and semi-literate prose.

The Beatles saved the world from boredom.

The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity.

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

He who seeks rest finds boredom. He who seeks work finds rest.

Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time; serenity, that nothing is.

Life is as tedious as twice-told tale, vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man.

God created woman. And boredom did indeed cease from that moment-but many other things ceased as well!

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

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