Boredom Quotes And Sayings

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“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’s too much down time making movies. That leads to boredom. And that leads to trouble.”
– Jereny Renner

“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.”
– Jerome Lawrence

“Is boredom anything less than the sense of one’s faculties slowly dying?.” 
– John Berger

“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.”
– John Kenneth Galbraith

“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.”
– Jospeh Brodsky

“I am never bored anywhere: being bored is an insult to oneself.”
– Jules Renard

“Morality is a venereal disease. Its primary stage is called virtue; its secondary stage, boredom; its tertiary stage, syphilis.”
– Kalr Kraus

“We must embrace pain and burn it as fuel for our journey.”
– Kenji Miyazawa

“Never chain your dogs together with sausages. One must accustom one’s self to be bored.” 
– Lady Bloomfield

“Boredom is my worst enemy. It’s killed a lot of my friends, but it won’t get me. When I get bored, I go risk my life somewhere.”
– Larry Niven

“Boredom is a sickness the cure for which is work; pleasure is only a palliative.”
– Le Duc De Levis

“Boredom: the desire for desires” 
– Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy

“Boredom is an emptiness filled with insistence.”
– Leo Stein

“Boredom: the desire for desires.”
– Leo Tolstoy

“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.”
– Lewis Cass

“His shortcoming is his long staying.” 
– Lewis L. Lewisohn

“Probably the difference between man and the monkeys is that the monkeys are merely bored, while man has boredom plus imagination.”
– Lin Yutang

“As actors, the thing we have to fight, more than even the business part of making movies, is boredom.”
– Linda Fiorento

“Society is now one polished horde, formed of two mighty tribes, the Bores and Bored.”
– Lord Byron

“It seems that boredom is one of the greatest discoveries of our time. If so, there’s no question but that he must be considered a pioneer.”
– Luchino Visconti

“One must choose in life between boredom and suffering.”
– Madame De Stael

“It is only a step from boredom to disillusionment, which leads naturally to self-pity, which in turn ends in chaos.”
– Manly Hall

“In love there are no vacations. No such thing. Love has to be lived fully with its boredom and all that.”
– Marguerite Duras

“Teens think listening to music helps them concentrate. It doesn’t. It relieves them of the boredom that concentration on homework induces.”
– Marilyn Vos Savant

“Though we all know what boredom is, most normal adults do not experience sheer boredom very often. We are stressed, rushed, and worried, but we are seldom purely bored–in part because we are so stressed, rushed, and worried. Time without anything we must attend to usually feels like a breather, not like a monotony. To get a feel for what sheer boredom is like, we must hearken back to childhood. Children and adolescents are frequently bored, so bored they can hardly even stand it. Their perfectly normal developmental need for constant stimulation, for exploring and ongoing learning, is often thwarted in a world of long trips, rainy afternoons, and study halls. In childhood, boredom can be excruciating, like a chronic spiritual headache, or a powerful thirst with no beverage to be had. It can hurt so bad that the poor kid feels like yelling out loud, or throwing something noisy at a wall. Extreme boredom is arguably a form of pain.”
– Martha Stout

“Miss Searle had always considered boredom an intellectual defeat.”
– Mary Renault

“Ennui, the demon, waited at the threshold of his noiseless refuge, and drove away the stirring hopes and enlivening expectations, which form the better part of life.”
– Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

“Even boredom has its crises.”
– Mason Cooley

“Grasp your opportunities, no matter how poor your health; nothing is worse for your health than boredom.”
– Mignon Mclaughlin

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