Boredom Quotes

Give me boredom. At least I know where I'm going to eat and sleep tonight.

Neil Gaiman

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.

Bertrand Russell

Boredom is always counter-revolutionary. Always.

Guy Debord

The devil's name is dullness.

General Robert E. Lee

It is the sin that believes in nothing,cares for nothing,seeks to know nothing,interferes with nothing,enjoys nothing,hates nothing,finds purpose in nothing,lives for nothing,and remains alivebecause there is nothing for which it will die.

Dorothy L. Sayers, On Boredom

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

Ellen Parr

All kinds are good except the kind that bores you.

Voltaire (FrançoisMarie Arouet)

You'll find boredom where there is an absence of a good idea.

Earl Nightingale

Boring people are a reflection of boring people.

Doug Horton

There is no such thing on earth as an uninteresting subject; the only thing that can exist is an uninterested person. Nothing is more keenly required than a defence of bores. When Byron divided humanity into the bores and bored, he omitted to notice that the higher qualities exist entirely in the bores, the lower qualities in the bored, among whom he counted himself. The bore, by his starry enthusiasm, his solemn happiness, may, in some sense, have proved himself poetical. The bored has certainly proved himself prosaic.

G. K. Chesterton, Heretics

A yawn is a silent shout.

G. K. Chesterton

What's wrong with being a boring kind of guy?

George Bush

There are moments when, faced with our lack of success, I wonder whether we are failures, proud but impotent. One thing reassures me as to our value: the boredom that afflicts us. It is the hall-mark of quality in modern men.

Edmond de Goncourt

Work saves us from three great evils boredom, vice and need.

Voltaire

To do the same thing over and over again is not only boredom: it is to be controlled by rather than to control what you do.

Heraclitus

Never chain your dogs together with sausages. One must accustom one's self to be bored.

Lady Bloomfield

Martin in particular concluded that man was born to live either in the convulsions of misery, or in the lethargy of boredom.

Voltaire

Repose is a good thing, but boredom is its brother

Voltaire

Bore, n.: A person who talks when you wish him to listen.

Ambrose Bierce

And 'tis remarkable that they talk most who have the least to say.

Matthew Prior