Below you will find our collection of inspirational, wise, and humorous
old boredom quotes, boredom sayings, and boredom proverbs, collected over the years from a variety
of sources.
Boredom is the root of all evil--the despairing refusal to be oneself.Soren Kierkegaard
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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.unknown
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Life is never boring, but some people choose to be bored.Wayne Dyer
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Grasp your opportunities, no matter how poor your health; nothing is worse for your health than boredom.Mignon McLaughlin
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Boredom is a sickness the cure for which is work; pleasure is only a palliative.Le Duc De Lvis
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Boredom flourishes too, when you feel safe. It's a symptom of security.Eugene Ionesco
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You'll find boredom where there is the absence of a good idea.Earl Nightingale
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Running through things because you are familiar with them, breeds routine and this is the seed of boredom.James Galway
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In order to live free and happily you must sacrifice boredom. It is not always an easy sacrifice.Richard Bach
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Boredom rests upon the nothingness that winds its way through existence; its giddiness, like that which comes from gazing down into an infinite abyss, is infinite.Soren Kierkegaard
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Boredom is the self being stuffed with itself.Walker Percy
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Boredom is nothing but the experience of a paralysis of our productive powers.Erich Fromm
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Boredom is the conviction that you can't change'the shriek of unused capacities. Saul Bellow
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Boredom is the fear of self. Marie Josephine De Suin
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Boredom is the deadliest poison.William F. Buckley
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The concept of boredom entails an inability to use up present moments in a personally fulfilling way.Wayne Dyer
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Boredom is the dream bird that hatches the egg of experience. A rustling in the leaves drives him away.Walter Benjamin
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The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity.Ellen Parr
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Boredom: the desire for desires.Leo Tolstoy
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Boredom comes from a boring mind.Metallica
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Perhaps the world's second worst crime is boredom. The first is being a bore.Sir Cecil Beaton
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I always think boredom is to some extent the fault of the bored.Kate Ross
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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
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Boredom is rage spread thin.Paul Tillich
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I can excuse everything but boredom. Boring people don't have to stay that way.Hedy Lamarr
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Boredom is a sign of satisfied ignorance, blunted apprehension, crass sympathies, dull understanding, feeble powers of attention, and irreclaimable weakness of character.James Bridie
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Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time; serenity, that nothing is.Thomas S. Szasz
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I can excuse everything but boredom. Boring people don't have to stay that way.Hedy Lamarr
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When we hold back out of laziness, that is when we tie ourselves into knots of boredom.Walter Annenberg
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Boredom is a vital problem for the moralist, since half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it. Bertrand Russell
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Isn’t history ultimately the result of our fear of boredom?Emil M. Cioran
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Boredom is simply the absence of an interesting perspective.Brandon A. Trean
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Your true traveler finds boredom rather agreeable than painful. It is the symbol of his liberty - his excessive freedom. He accepts his boredom, when it comes, not merely philosophically, but almost with pleasure.Aldous Huxley
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I am convinced that boredom is one of the greatest tortures. If I were to imagine Hell, it would be the place where you were continually bored.Erich Fromm
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Boredom always precedes a period of great creativity.Robert M. Pirsig
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The life of the creative man is lead, directed and controlled by boredom. Avoiding boredom is one of our most important purposes.Susan Sontag
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Boredom is your imagination calling to you.Sherry Turkle
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Boredom, anger, sadness, or fear are not 'yours,' not personal. They are conditions of the human mind. They come and go. Nothing that comes and goes is you.Eckhart Tolle
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When you pay attention to boredom it gets unbelievably interesting.Jon Kabat-Zinn
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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
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The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom.Arthur Schopenhauer
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Immunity to boredom gives the computer an edge.Alan Lakein
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I begin with the principle that all men are bores. Surely no one will prove himself so great a bore as to contradict me in this.Soren Kierkegaard
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All kinds are good except the kind that bores you.Voltaire
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The life of the creative person is led, directed, and controlled by boredom. Avoiding boredom is one of our most important purposes.Saul Steinberg
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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.Charlotte Whitton
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Boredom is the highest mental state.Albert Einstein
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Extreme boredom serves to distract us from boredom.François Duc de La Rochefoucauld
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We have a world of pleasures to win, and nothing to lose but boredom.Raoul Vaneigem
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A tremendous number of people in America work very hard at something that bores them. Even a rich man thinks he has to go down to the office every day. Not because he likes it but because he can't think of anything else to do.W. H. Auden
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The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity.Dorothy Parker
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Entertainment is, in fact, the biggest cause of boredom in the modern world. The more man is entertained, the more bored he grows.Anthony Daniels
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Jump out the window if you are the object of passion. Flee it if you feel it. Passion goes, boredom remains.Coco Chanel
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The most costly disease is not cancer or coronaries. The most costly disease is boredom - costly for both individual and society.Norman Cousins
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By his very success in inventing labor-saving devices, modern man has manufactured an abyss of boredom that only the privileged classes in earlier civilizations have ever fathomed.Lewis Mumford
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Boredom dismantles the mind, renders it superficial, out at the seams, saps it from within and dislocates it.Emil M. Cioran
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Boredom is a larval anxiety; depression, a dreamy hatred.Emil M. Cioran
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Boredom and restlessness are deeply related. Whenever you feel boredom, then you feel restlessness. Restlessness is a by-product of boredom.Osho
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The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore.Samuel Butler
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The effect of boredom on a large scale in history is underestimated. It is a main cause of revolutions, and would soon bring an end to all the static utopias and the farmyard civilization of the Fabians.Dean Inge
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It is well-known that evils are alleviated by the fact that we bear them in common. People seem to regard boredom as one of these and therefore get together in order to be bored in common.Arthur Schopenhauer
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Ennui has made more gamblers than avarice, more drunkards than thirst, and perhaps as many suicides as despair.Charles Caleb Colton
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Meanwhile, patriotic men and women must not only rise above fear; they must also rise above inconvenience and, perhaps, most of all, above boredom.Winston Churchill
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You have to be a materialist, to begin with. But don't stop there. The second thing that will make your journey complete is the search for significance. Otherwise, every enjoyment is going to become boredom sooner or later.Osho
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Complacency can lead to boredom. Try new experiences and put excitement back into your life.Amanda Ray
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