Boredom quotes
598 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
"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."
"I wanted to get that sense of peace and even boredom that comes with long familiarity."
"I've got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom."
"No man should go through life without once experiencing healthy, even bored solitude in the wilderness, finding himself depending solely on himself and thereby learning his true and hidden strength"
"Boredom: the desire for desires."
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"She refused to be bored chiefly because she wasn't boring."
"The great thing is the thing of being able to see things through many points of view. That's enlarging. I mean, it saves you from ultimately from the boredom of having one point of view, like being locked in a room with nothing but your own point of view, your own references."
"As soon as you set foot on a yacht you belong to some man, not to yourself, and you die of boredom."
"In the U.S., you have to be a deviant or die of boredom."
"Nature is interested in only two things--to survive and to reproduce one like itself. Anything you superimpose on that, all the cultural input, is responsible for the boredom of man."
"And I, stepping from this skin Of old bandages, boredoms, old faces Step to you from the black car of Lethe, Pure as a baby."
"You need to let little things that would ordinarily bore you suddenly thrill you."
"Idle people are often bored and bored people, unless they sleep a lot, are cruel. It is not accident that boredom and cruelty are great preoccupations in our time."
"He who seeks rest finds boredom. He who seeks work finds rest."
"Existence for eternity could get a little boring... especially towards the end."
"A bore is someone who deprives you of solitude without providing you with company."
"Jonathan Seagull discovered that boredom and fear and anger are the reasons that a gull's life is so short, and with those gone from his thought, he lived a long fine life indeed."
"In love there are no vacations. No such thing. Love has to be lived fully with its boredom and all that."
"Symmetry is tedious, and tedium is the very basis of mourning. Despair yawns."
"The secret of being a bore... is to tell everything."
"Against boredom even gods struggle in vain."
"The secret of boring people lies in telling them everything."
"i'm a slave to my emotions, to my likes, to my hatred of boredom, to most of my desires"
"The Beatles saved the world from boredom."
"The existential vacuum manifests itself mainly in a state of boredom."
