Boredom Quotes

Are you bored? Boring! ...


There's no excuse to be bored. Sad, yes. Angry, yes. Depressed, yes. Crazy, yes. But there's no excuse for boredom, ever.

 Viggo Mortensen


The life of the creative man is lead, directed and controlled by boredom. Avoiding boredom is one of our most important purposes.
Saul Steinberg (Creativity Quotes)

The war between being and nothingness is the underlying illness of the twentieth century. Boredom slays more of existence than war.
Norman Mailer

Boredom is a vital problem for the moralist, since at least half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it.
Bertrand Russell,
The Conquest of Happiness

Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time; serenity, that nothing is.
Thomas Szasz
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Ennui has made more gamblers than avarice, more drunkards than thirst, and perhaps as many suicides as despair.
C.C. Colton

I am never bored anywhere: being bored is an insult to oneself.
Jules Renard


Boring People:

A bore is a man who, when you ask him how he is, tells you.
Bert Leston Taylor

We often forgive those who bore us, but never those whom we bore.
Francois, Duc de La Rochefoucauld, Maxims


Boredom and Travelling:

Your true traveller finds boredom rather agreeable than painful. It is the symbol of his liberty - his excessive freedom. He accepts his boredom, when it comes, not merely philosophically, but almost with pleasure.
Aldous Huxley

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