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They sicken of the calm, who knew the storm.
Dorothy Parker
Good-bye. I am leaving because I am bored.
George Sanders
Everything considered, work is less boring than amusing oneself.
Charles Baudelaire
The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore.
Samuel Butler
Men are seldom more commonplace than on supreme occasions.
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.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Is boredom anything less than the sense of one's faculties slowly dying?
John Berger
Perhaps the world's second worst crime is boredom. The first is being a bore.
Sir Cecil Walter Hardy Beaton
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...
LouisFerdinand Celine, The narra
Boredom is like a pitiless zooming in on the epidermis of time. Every instant is dilated and magnified like the pores of the face.
Jean Baudrillard
There is perhaps no more reliable indicator of a society's ripeness for a mass movement than the prevalence of unrelieved boredom. In most all the descriptions of the periods preceding the rise of mass movements there is reference to vast ennui; and in their earliest stages mass movements are more likely to find sympathizers and support among the bored than among the exploited and oppressed. To a deliberate fomenter of mass upheavals, the report that people are bored stiff should be at least as encouraging as that they are suffering from intolerable economic or political abuses.When people are bored, it is primarily with their own selves that they are bored. The consciousness of a barren, meaningless existence is the main fountainhead of boredom. People who are not conscious of their individual separatedness, as is the case with those who are members or a compact tribe, church, party, etcetera, are not accessible to boredom. The differentiated individual is free of boredom only when he is engaged either in creative work or some absorbing occupation or when he is wholly engrossed in the struggle for existence. Pleasure-chasing and dissipation are ineffective palliatives. Where people live autonomous lives and are not badly off, yet are without abilities or opportunities for creative work or useful action, there is no telling to what desperate and fantastic shifts they might resort in order to give meaning and purpose to their lives.
Eric Hoffer, The True Believer (
Something more terrible than a hell where one suffers may be imagined, and that is a hell where one is bored.
Victor Hugo
Only those who want everything done for them are bored.
Billy Graham
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.
Blaise Pascal
The penalty for success is to be bored by people who used to snub you.
Nancy Astor
Boredom is just the reverse side of fascination: both depend on being outside rather than inside a situation, and one leads to the other.
Susan Sontag
In order to live free and happily you must sacrifice boredom. It is not always an easy sacrifice.
Richard Bach
The nice thing about being a celebrity is that, if you bore people, they think it's their fault.
Henry Kissinger
I fell asleep reading a dull book and dreamed I kept on reading, so I awoke from sheer boredom.
Heinrich Heine
Banality is a terribly likely consequence of the underused of a good mind. That is why in particular it is a female affliction.
Cynthia PropperSeton
