Boredom Quotes

One must choose in life between boredom and suffering. (Anne Louise Germaine de Staël)
Work saves us from three great evils: boredom, vice and need. View quote
Voltaire
The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity. View quote
Dorothy Parker
They say that death kills you, But death doesn't kill you. Boredom and indifference kill you. View quote
Iggy Pop
In order to live free and happily, you must sacrifice boredom. It is not always an easy sacrifice. View quote
Richard Bach
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. View quote
Isaac Asimov
There's no excuse to be bored. Sad, yes. Angry, yes. Depressed, yes. Crazy, yes. But there's no excuse for boredom, ever. View quote
Viggo Mortensen
Boredom helps one to make decisions. View quote
Colette
Miss Searle had always considered boredom an intellectual defeat. View quote
Mary Renault
The Beatles saved the world from boredom. View quote
George Harrison
It's precisely in those moments when I don't know what to do, boredom drives one to try a host of possibilities to either get somewhere or not get anywhere. (Anish Kapoor)
The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom. View quote
Arthur Schopenhauer
This is the curse of our age, even the strangest aberrations are no cure for boredom. View quote
Stendhal
Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time; serenity, that nothing is. View quote
Thomas Szasz
A subject for a great poet would be God's boredom after the seventh day of creation. View quote
Friedrich Nietzsche
I've got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom. View quote
Thomas Carlyle
It is the unknown that excites the ardor of scholars, who, in the known alone, would shrivel up with boredom. View quote
Wallace Stevens
Isn't history ultimately the result of our fear of boredom? View quote
Emil Cioran
Strange new problems are being reported in the growing generations of children whose mothers were always there, driving them around, helping them with their homework - an inability to endure pain or discipline or pursue any self-sustained goal of any sort, a devastating boredom with life. View quote
Betty Friedan
Boredom is always counter-revolutionary. Always. View quote
Guy Debord
Boredom is... a vital problem for the moralist, since half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it. (Bertrand Russell)
Without lies humanity would perish of despair and boredom. View quote
Anatole France
I fell asleep reading a dull book and dreamed I kept on reading, so I awoke from sheer boredom. View quote
Heinrich Heine
It's the boredom that kills you. You read until you're tired of that. You do crossword puzzles until you're tired of that. This is torture. This is mental torture. View quote
Jack Kevorkian
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. View quote
Lewis Mumford