quotations about boredom
Boredom comes simply from ignorance and lack of imagination.
SUSAN ERTZ
Anger in the Sky
Something opens our wings. Something makes boredom and hurt disappear. Someone fills the cup in front of us: We taste only sacredness.
RUMI
attributed, Oh My Beloved!: Seven Lessons in Sacred Relationship
Work banishes those three great evils, boredom, vice, and poverty.
VOLTAIRE
Candide
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
Your Erroneous Zones
Want and boredom are indeed the twin poles of human life.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER
"On the Suffering of the World,", Essays and Aphorisms
Description is always a bore, both to the describer and to the describee.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI
Home Letters
I'm going to let you in on a little secret about life. You think it's boring now? Well, it only gets more boring. The sooner you learn it's on you to make life interesting, the better off you'll be.
MARIA SEMPLE
Where'd You Go, Bernadette
I would rather die of passion than of boredom.
EMILE ZOLA
The Ladies' Paradise
Boredom was my bedmate and it was hogging the sheets.
ANDREW DAVIDSON
The Gargoyle
Doing anything when you're bored is very very boring. Anyway, doing nothing is the point of being bored. The pleasure of being bored is mooning about and doing nothing.
AIDAN CHAMBERS
This Is All
Ennui, the demon, waited at the threshold of his noiseless refuge, and drove away the stirring hopes and elivening expectations, which form the better part of life.
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT SHELLEY
Lodore
Boredom is ... a vital problem for the moralist, since at least half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it.
BERTRAND RUSSELL
The Conquest of Happiness
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 Fall
Boredom is simply romanticism with a morning-after thirst.
SAMUEL HOPKINS ADAMS
Average Jones
Dying of boredom
I'll try it all
It looks and feels great but look at what it's doing to you
But that's ok look at how it feels
DEFTONES
"Lhabia"
She refused to be bored chiefly because she wasn't boring.
ZELDA FITZGERALD
"Eulogy on the Flapper", Metropolitan Magazine, June 1922
Eventually, boredom means you will take up golf.
JEREMY CLARKSON
The World According to Clarkson
If you didn't care what happened to me,
and i didn't care for you,
we would zig zag our way through the boredom and pain,
occasionally glancing up through the rain
wondering which of the buggers to blame
and watching for pigs on the wing.
PINK FLOYD
"Pigs on the Wing, Part 1"
In the beginning was boredom, commonly called chaos. God, bored with boredom, created the earth, the sky, the waters, the animals, the plants, Adam and Eve; and the latter, bored in their turn in paradise, ate the forbidden fruit. God became bored with them and drove them out of Eden.
ALBERTO MORAVIA
La Noia
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
Playing My Mother's Blues