Quotes on Boredom

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 best way to be boring is to include everything.

Unless a man has been taught what to do with success after getting it, the achievement of it must inevitably leave him a prey to boredom.

I don't know about bores. Maybe you shouldn't feel too sorry if you see some swell girl getting married to them. They don't hurt anybody most of them, and maybe they're all terrific whistlers or something. Who the hell knows? Not me.

Man finds nothing so intolerable as to be in a state of complete rest, without passions, without occupation, without diversion, without effort. Then he feels his nullity, loneliness, inadequacy, dependence, helplessness, emptiness.

Only the most acute and active animals are capable of boredom.

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

I can excuse everything but boredom. Boring people don't have to stay that way.

In the years since, I've discovered there's a lot to be said for boredom.

Hard work never killed a man. Men die of boredom, psychological conflict, and disease. They do not die of hard work.

The boredom of married life inevitable destroys love, when love has preceded marriage.

Of course, true love is exceptional - two or three times a century, more or less. The rest of the time there is vanity or boredom.

You need to let little things that would ordinarily bore you suddenly thrill you.

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.

The most total opposite of pleasure is not pain but boredom, for we are willing to risk pain to make a boring life interesting.

I’ve seen excitement, and I’ve seen boredom. And boredom was best.

Surely a long life must be somewhat tedious, since we are forced to call in so many trifling things to help rid us of our time, which will never return.

If the world were a paradise of luxury and ease, a land flowing with milk and honey, where every Jack obtained his Jill at once and without any difficulty, men would either die of boredom or hang themselves; or there would be wars, massacres, and murders; so that in the end mankind would inflict more suffering on itself than it has now to accept at the hands of Nature.

People with a high tolerance for boredom can get a lot of thinking done.

i'm a slave to my emotions, to my likes, to my hatred of boredom, to most of my desires

Extreme boredom provides its own antidote.