Boredom Quotes And Sayings

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“I’ve got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom.” 
– Thomas Carlyle

“Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time; serenity, that nothing is.”
– Thomas Szasz

“And I couldn’t agree more with French sociologist, Jean Baudrillard where he so aptly describes being bored with the following words.”
– Unknown

“Boredom, after all, is a form of criticism.”
– Unknown

“But, even then I think these are only momentary cures for something so unvanquishable and untamable as boredom. I have met some of the choicest chronic workaholics in my life and some of them were so bored that they seemed almost dead at the neural level. So, work cannot shield you against boredom evidently. Then comes curiosity and happiness. Now I do not need to be a high level philosopher to deduce that happiness is short lived and curiosity is a very temporary state of mind given that it is extinguished once you have nailed the object that fired it up in the first place. As for uncertainty, well, one does get used to it, isn’t it? So, what do you really do when you run out of things to do when you’re bored, which you eventually, most definitely do? It’s like Stendhal puts it”
– Unknown

“Punctuality is the virtue of the bored.”
– Unknown

“So, in order to sedate boredom for sometime before it wakes up again and becomes the abject reality of your life, read the following penned thoughts on boredom and understand the nature of what all men are trying to overcome as a part of their eternal struggle.”
– Unknown

“Boredom is what you fight. Constant, ever-present boredom. So you learn to look forward to small things. Sunlight glimpsed through a cloud, an extra piece of pie or candy, good thread to sew your blouse, a ribbon to wear in your hair.”
– Valerie W. Wesley

“Nothing is so stifling as symmetry. Symmetry is boredom, the quintessence of mourning. Despair yawns. There is something more terrible than a hell of suffering — a hell of boredom.”
– Victor Hugo

“There’s no excuse to be bored. Sad, yes. Angry, yes. Depressed, yes. Crazy, yes. But there’s no excuse for boredom, ever.”
– Viggo Mortensen

“Boredom is the legitimate kingdom of the philanthropic.”
– Virginia Woolf

“Work saves us from three great evils: boredom, vice and need.”
– Voltaire

“Spares us from three evils: boredom, vice, and need.”
– Voltaire

“Boredom is the self being stuffed with itself.”
– Walker Percy

“It is the unknown that excites the ardor of scholars, who, in the known alone, would shrivel up with boredom.”
– Wallace Stevens

“When we hold back out of laziness, that is when we tie ourselves into knots of boredom.”
– Walter Annenberg

“Boredom is the dream bird that hatches the egg of experience. A rustling in the leaves drives him away.”
– Walter Benjamin

“I spent a year in that town, one Sunday.” 
– Warwick Deeping

“The concept of boredom entails an inability to use up present moments in a personally fulfilling way.”
– Wayne Dyer

“Life is never boring but some people choose to be bored. The concept of boredom entails an inability to use up present moments in a personally fulfilling way. Boredom is a choice; something you visit upon yourself, and it is another of those self-defeating items that you can eliminate from your life.”
– Wayne W. Dyer

“The tendency is to blame boredom on the environment. “This town is really dull” or “What a boring speaker.” The particular town or speaker is never dull, it is you experiencing the boredom, and you can eliminate it by doing something else with your mind or energy at that moment.”
– Wayne W. Dyer

“Boredom is the deadliest poison.”
– William F. Buckley

“How some of the writers I come across get through their books without dying of boredom is beyond me.”
– William Gaddis

“Nobody is bored when he is trying to make something that is beautiful, or to discover something that is true.”
– William Inge

“Much is forgiven anyone who relieves the desperate boredom of the working press.”
– William Weld

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