Top 77 Boredom Quotes

Variety is more than a means of avoiding boredom, since art is more than an entertainment of the senses.

If I planned everything out in advance, I’d expire of boredom.

Humor and laughter – not necessarily derogatory derision – are my pet tools. This may come from my general philosophy of never taking the world too seriously – for fear of dying of boredom.

For boredom speaks the language of time, and it is to teach you the most valuable lesson of your life – the lesson of your utter insignificance.

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

I fear the boredom that comes with not learning and not taking chances.

As a reader, I have a very short attention span and a low tolerance for boredom, and I find that comes in handy with my writing. If I get bored writing something, I pity the people who will then try to read it.

In order to live free and happily you must sacrifice boredom. It is not always an easy sacrifice.

I think one of the most important things for creativity is boredom.

People of Wealth and the so called upper class suffer the most from boredom.

There’s a rebirth that goes on with us continuously as human beings. I don’t understand, personally, how you can be bored. I can understand how you can be depressed, but I just don’t understand boredom.

The one thing for an actor that is complete death is if you’re bored, because that boredom will show in your work.

I have no problem quitting things, because I have a horror of boredom.

I finally overcame my phobia, and now I approach flying with a sort of studied boredom – a learned habit, thanks to my learn-to-fly-calmly training – but like all former flying phobics, I retain a weird and feverish fascination with aviation news, especially bad news.

Thanks to Twitter, iPads, BlackBerrys, voice-activated in-dash navigation systems, and a hundred other technologies that offer distraction anywhere, anytime, boredom has loosened its grip on us at last – that once-crushing ‘weight’ has become, for the most part, a memory.

We choose mania over boredom every time.

Boredom is your imagination calling to you.

Boredom is the legitimate kingdom of the philanthropic.

Primates feel pure, flat immobility as boredom. But dogs feel it as peace.

I was a housewife, I suppose, and luckily I have a very high boredom threshold.

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

My drive to put myself on the line comes from boredom. From that feeling when you go to bed and think, ‘What did I do today?’ It doesn’t have to be something monumental, just a feeling that you really tried to look at something, or look into something.

I know how to paint… In a way there is a boredom there because a lot of the magic is gone.

Economics is a subject profoundly conducive to cliche, resonant with boredom. On few topics is an American audience so practiced in turning off its ears and minds. And none can say that the response is ill advised.

Boredom is a concept that I don’t understand.

While one might laugh at the meaningless boredom of people a decade or two ago, the emptiness has for many now moved from the state of boredom to a state of futility and despair, which holds promise of dangers.

In a strange way, I feel like we need to cultivate more boredom in our lives: like, boredom needs to be okay again. It needs to be seen as a good thing, and I think it’s definitely a good thing for relationships.

I did nine episodes of ‘John Doe.’ I died of boredom.

I was a mindless eater. I ate for comfort. I also ate out of boredom and habit.

Fortunately, our audiences are used to a kind of boredom in the theatre, and if the writer is skillful, he will flatter them into thinking: ‘Why, that’s us up there, and aren’t we – for all our little foibles – pretty nice guys and gals?’

In marketing you must choose between boredom, shouting and seduction. Which do you want?

Without lies humanity would perish of despair and boredom.

Only the most acute and active animals are capable of boredom. – A theme for a great poet would be God’s boredom on the seventh day of creation.

A lot of the things that bore adults don’t bore children, and people forget that. In some ways, boredom is a projection of adults because we can’t remember what childhood was like.

When you pay attention to boredom it gets unbelievably interesting.

For me, the opposite of happiness isn’t sadness but boredom.

I’m pretty disciplined. But your brain needs boredom. It needs routine.

One should only see a psychiatrist out of boredom.

A subject for a great poet would be God’s boredom after the seventh day of creation.

I’ve only done a handful of things in my life that have stood out. The rest is just broth: mistakes and boredom.

I spent a fair amount of time in Communist Poland when I was young – my wife was from there – and I had the impression that boredom was one of the things that was undermining that whole society from the inside.

I fell asleep reading a dull book and dreamed I kept on reading, so I awoke from sheer boredom.

When I started with music, all I was looking for was to ensure I never had to live the life I grew up with. I wanted a foolproof exemption from pain and boredom. I wanted a life of constant amusement and leisure.

When I was a child, I wanted to watch things that made me laugh. It’s attacking boredom, as simple as that. I was 19 when I first went to a comedy club – I wanted to do it, so I gave it a try and that was it. I found my office.

Our only competition in the theater is boredom, because if I’m bored with a play, if I’m revolted by a play on stage, with the Broadway prices, especially today, I’m going to walk out and not come back and pay that price again.

Rules equal boredom, and I don’t like that.

The jogging machine makes me go insane with boredom.

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.

Boredom is a concept that I don’t understand.

As a director you have to live and breathe that one story for 8 months completely. I like variety, if I write extensively I get a writer’s block so I do something else to beat the boredom and then get back to something I’ve already done.

TV is no longer the best alternative to boredom. To kids not old enough for Snapchat, music is the best alternative to boredom. For Snapchat users, it’s the best alternative to boredom.

It’s precisely in those moments when I don’t know what to do, boredom drives one to try a host of possibilities to either get somewhere or not get anywhere.

Morality is a venereal disease. Its primary stage is called virtue; its secondary stage, boredom; its tertiary stage, syphilis.

The life of the creative man is lead, directed and controlled by boredom. Avoiding boredom is one of our most important purposes.

Boredom is a very self-conscious emotion by definition. Interest is not. So you can actually be completely absorbed in something and, at certain points in your development, not even realize that you’re into it.

Before, for me, peace could have been synonymous with boredom.

How some of the writers I come across get through their books without dying of boredom is beyond me.

Boredom is a fearsome prospect. There’s a limit to the number of cars and microwaves you can buy. What do you do then?

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

We’re not big on irony in Jamaica, sarcasm and double-talk. We tend to say things plainly, sometimes to the point of boredom.

They’re a redefinition of boredom… the most important thing you need to know about an awards show is where is the nearest smoking opportunity.

Boredom means you develop your own interior life.

Since boredom advances and boredom is the root of all evil, no wonder, then, that the world goes backwards, that evil spreads. This can be traced back to the very beginning of the world. The gods were bored; therefore they created human beings.

When you’re a full-time mum, you’re constantly in that zone and doing breastfeeding and having a lot of boredom, too!

Longevity is something I never gave a second thought to. I guess it’s the shadow of growing up in post WWII, but I never believed I would live past 20. Here I am though… a senior citizen… my voice and heart are stronger than ever, but boredom is the greatest enemy so I have to be careful not to slip over the edge.

The Beatles saved the world from boredom.

Boredom is the root of all evil – the despairing refusal to be oneself.

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

Who wants a world in which the guarantee that we shall not die of starvation entails the risk of dying of boredom?