Boredom

If you grow bored so easily, perhaps it’s from listening to yourself.

— Boredom

Boredom is like a pitiless zooming in on the epidermis of time. Every instant is dilated and magnified like the pores of the face.

— Boredom

If sleep is the apogee of physical relaxation, boredom is the apogee of mental relaxation. Boredom is the dream bird that hatches the egg of experience.

— Boredom

Isn't history ultimately the result of our fear of boredom?

— Boredom

A well-stocked mind is safe from boredom.

— Boredom

Boredom helps one to make decisions.

— Boredom

Boredom is always counter-revolutionary. Always.

— Boredom

Boredom comes simply from ignorance and lack of imagination.

— Boredom

Boredom is not an end product, is comparatively rather an early stage in life and art. You've got to go by or past or through boredom, as through a filter, before the clear product emerges.

— Boredom

But her life was as cold as an attic facing north; and boredom, like a silent spider, was weaving its web in the shadows, in every corner of her heart.

— Boredom

Man is the only animal that can be bored.

— Boredom

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.

— Boredom

Tedium is the worst pain.

— Boredom

Boredom is boredom. There is nothing to do, deal with it.

— Boredom

Many felt there was something not quite right about a man who professed himself so profoundly bored with the subject of sport.

— Boredom

Against boredom even the gods contend in vain.

— Boredom

Boredom is therefore a vital problem for the moralist, since at least half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it.

— Boredom

It is the unknown that excites the ardor of scholars, who, in the known alone, would shrivel up from boredom.

— Boredom

Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time; serenity, that nothing is.

— Boredom

The way to be bored is to know where you are going and the way to get there.

— Boredom

Soon he [Vronsky] felt rising in his soul a desire for desires — boredom.

— Boredom

The history of the world has been one not of conquest, as supposed; it has been one of ennui.

— Boredom

Once we can see how this question of freedom of the will has been vitiated by post-romantic philosophy, with its inbuilt tendency to laziness and boredom, we can also see how it came about that existentialism found itself in a hole of it’s own digging, and how the philosophical developments since then have amounted to walking in circles round that hole.

— Boredom