Boredom Quotes

Everything smaller than Heaven bores us because only Heaven is bigger than our hearts.

Peter Kreeft

Beauty is a bit of a bore.

William Somerset Maugham

He had been bored, that's all, bored like most people. Hence he had made himself out of whole cloth a life full of complications and drama. Something must happen - and that explains most human commitments. Something must happen, even loveless slavery, even war or death. Hurray then for funerals!

Albert Camus

The existential vacuum manifests itself mainly in a state of boredom.

Viktor Frankl

Any country where I am not bored is a country that teaches me nothing.

Albert Camus

I don't believe in an afterlife, so I don't have to spend my whole life fearing hell, or fearing heaven even more. For whatever the tortures of hell, I think the boredom of heaven would be even worse.

Isaac Asimov

Las personas con un alto nivel de tolerancia al aburrimiento tienen tiempo de sobra para pensar.

Stephen King

His shortcoming is his long staying.

Lewis L. Lewisohn

The life of a creator is not the only life nor perhaps the most interesting which a man leads. There is a time for play and a time for work, a time for creation and a time for lying fallow. And there is a time, glorious too in its own way, when one scarcely exists, when one is a complete void. I mean -- when boredom seems the very stuff of life.

Henry Miller

Surely a long life must be somewhat tedious, since we are forced to call in so many trifling things to help rid us of our time, which will never return.

Samuel Johnson

Sir, you have but two topics, yourself and me. I am sick of both.

Samuel Johnson

A bore is a person who opens his mouth and puts his feats in it.

Henry Ford

Banality is a symptom of non-communication. Men hide behind their clich?s.

Eugene Ionesco

Unless one is taught what to do with success after getting it, achievement of it must inevitably leave him prey to boredom.

Bertrand Russell

No society ever seems to have succumbed to boredom. Man has developed an obvious capacity for surviving the pompous reiteration of the commonplace.

John Kenneth Galbraith

Highly educated bores are by far the worst; they know so much, in such fiendish detail, to be boring about.

Louis Kronenberger

The man who suspects his own tediousness is yet to be born.

Thomas Bailey Aldrich

I have a fear of being boring.

Christian Bale

Bores bore each other too; but it never seems to teach them anything.

Don Marquis

Death: Human beings make life so interesting. Do you know, that in a universe so full of wonders, they have managed to invent boredom.

Terry Pratchett