Quotes on Boredom

Boredom is not in the world, but in the way we see the world.

Squeeze marriage as much as you like, you will never extract anything from it but fun for bachelors and boredom for husbands.

A bore is someone who persists in holding his own views after we have enlightened him with ours.

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

With battlements that on their restless fronts Bore stars.

Miss the present and you live in boredom. BE in the present and you will be surprised that there is no boredom at all. Start by looking around a little more like a child. Be a child again! That's what meditation is all about: being a child again - a rebirth, being innocent again, not-knowing.

Love fed fat soon turns to boredom.

The age of chivalry is past. Bores have succeeded to dragons.

Living, just by itself - what a dirge that is! Life is a classroom and Boredom's the usher, there all the time to spy on you; whatever happens, you've got to look as if you were awfully busy all the time doing something that's terribly exciting - or he'll come along and nibble your brain.

Education must enable young people to effect what they have recognized to be right, despite hardships, despite dangers, despite inner skepticism, despite boredom, and despite mockery from the world. . . .

Exploitation and manipulation produce boredom and triviality; they cripple man, and all factors that make man into a psychic cripple turn him also into a sadist or a destroyer.

Profound boredom, drifting here and there in the abysses of our existence like a muffling fog, removes all things and men and oneself along with it into a remarkable indifference. This boredom reveals being as a whole.

There is nothing frightening about an eternal dreamless sleep. Surely it is better than eternal torment in Hell and eternal boredom in Heaven.

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.

Probably the difference between man and the monkeys is that the monkeys are merely bored, while man has boredom plus imagination.

Ennui, the demon, waited at the threshold of his noiseless refuge, and drove away the stirring hopes and enlivening expectations, which form the better part of life.

I have often thought that when I do die it will be of sheer boredom.

Retiring and discovering that you no longer have enough energy to enjoy life and dying a few years out of sheer boredom.

Boredom flourishes too, when you feel safe. It's a symptom of security.

Boredom is the self being stuffed with itself.

I am convinced that boredom is one of the greatest tortures. If I were to imagine Hell, it would be the place where you were continually bored.