Boredom Quotes

Bore: a person who talks when you wish him to listen.

Ambrose Bierce

The truth is that everyone is bored, and devotes himself to cultivating habits.

Albert Camus

Life, friends, is boring. We must not say so. After all, the sky flashes, the great sea yearns, we ourselves flash and yearn, and moreover my mother told me as a boy (repeatedly) Ever to confess you're bored means you have no inner Resources. I conclude now I have no inner resources, because I am heavy bored.

John Berryman

People who have nothing to do are quickly tired of their own company.

Jeremy Collier

Life is never boring, but some people choose to be bored.

Wayne Dyer

The concept of boredom entails an inability to use up present moments in a personally fulfilling way.

Wayne Dyer

Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours.

Dale Carnegie

The world is eaten up by boredom. You can't see it all at once. It is like dust. You go about and never notice, you breathe it in, you eat and drink it. It is sifted so fine, it doesn't even grit on your teeth. But stand still for an instant and there it is, coating your face and hands. To shake off this drizzle of ashes you must be for ever on the go. And so people are always on the go.

Georges Bernanos

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

Arthur Schopenhauer

I've got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom.

Thomas Carlyle

No man ever dared to manifest his boredom so insolently as does a Siamese tomcat when he yawns in the face of his amorously importunate wife.

Aldous Huxley

I am quite serious when I say that I do not believe there are, on the whole earth besides, so many intensified bores as in these United States. No man can form an adequate idea of the real meaning of the word, without coming here.

Charles Dickens

Our labour preserves us from three great evils -- weariness, vice, and want.

Voltaire

The most terrible thing about materialism, even more terrible than its proneness to violence, is its boredom, from which sex, alcohol, drugs, all devices for putting out the accusing light of reason and suppressing the unrealizable aspirations of love, offer a prospect of deliverance.

Malcolm Muggeridge

Work spares us from three evils: boredom, vice, and need

Voltaire

A mental disease has swept the planet: banalization presented with the alternative of love or a garbage disposal unit, young people of all countries have chosen the garbage disposal unit.

Ivan Chtcheglov

He who seeks rest finds boredom. He who seeks work finds rest.

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Boredom is not an end-product, is comparatively rather an early stage in life and art. You've got to go by or past or through boredom, as through a filter, before the clear product emerges.

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A bore is a man who has nothing to say and says it anyway.

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Boredom is a disease of the mind and psyche, an insidious disease. It not only takes the joy out of life, but the creativity as well. No one of God's children should ever be bored with life.

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