Quotes on Boredom

Nice Quotes on Boredom

Boredom

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

Boredom is an emptiness filled with insistence. – Leo Stein

Boredom flourishes too, when you feel safe. It’s a symptom of security. – Eugene Ionesco

The war between being and nothingness is the underlying illness of the twentieth century. Boredom slays more of existence than war. – Norman Mailer

I am never bored anywhere: being bored is an insult to oneself. – Jules Renard

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

Nobody is bored when he is trying to make something that is beautiful, or to discover something that is true. – William Inge

Ennui has made more gamblers than avarice, more drunkards than thirst, and perhaps as many suicides as despair. – C.C. Colton

Boredom is a sickness the cure for which is work; pleasure is only a palliative. – Le Duc de Lévis

Earth’s nothing more than a rotating ball of boredom. – Star Trek

Punctuality is the virtue of the bored. – Evelyn Waugh

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

When I get real bored, I like to drive downtown and get a great parking spot, then sit in my car and count how many people ask me if I’m leaving. – Steven Wright

All man’s troubles come from not knowing how to sit still in one room. – Blaise Pascal

The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity. – Dorothy Parker