Boredom Quotes and Sayings

Boredom quotes and sayings

Boredom: the desire for desires
Leo Tolstoy

Life swings like a pendulum backward and forward between pain and boredom
Arthur Schopenhauer

The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity.
Ellen Parr
\Boredom is rage spread thin.
Paul Tillich

Boredom is the dream bird that hatches the egg of experience. A rustling in the leaves drives him away.
Walter Benjamin

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

Boredom is the legitimate kingdom of the philanthropic.
Virginia Woolf


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



I’ve got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom. -Thomas Carlyle

In order to live free and happily, you must sacrifice boredom. It is not always an easy sacrifice. -Richard Bach

You’ll find boredom where there is the absence of a good idea. -Earl Nightingale


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, Pensées, 1670


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


Boredom is the root of all evil - the despairing refusal to be oneself.
Soren Kierkegaard

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

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


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

The word aerobics comes from two Greek words: aero, meaning "ability to," and bics, meaning "withstand tremendous boredom
Dave Barry




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