“Too many church services start at eleven sharp and end at twelve dull.”
“Boredom is the root of all evil--the despairing refusal to be oneself.”
“Is boredom anything less than the sense of one's faculties slowly dying?”
“The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore.”
“People of Wealth and the so called upper class suffer the most from boredom.”
“Perhaps the world's second worst crime is boredom. The first is being a bore.”
“Never chain your dogs together with sausages. One must accustom one's self to be bored.”
“One thing I can say about George... he may not be able to keep a job, but he's not boring.”
“The nice thing about being a celebrity is that, if you bore people, they think it's their fault.”
“Everyone is a bore to someone. That is unimportant. The things to avoid is being a bore to oneself.”
“The concept of boredom entails an inability to use up present moments in a personally fulfilling way.”
“Boredom is the dream bird that hatches the egg of experience. A rustling in the leaves drives him away.”
“A healthy male adult bore consumes each year one and a half times his own weight in other people's patience.”
“Boredom is a vital problem for the moralist, since at least half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it.”
“To do the same thing over and over again is not only boredom: it is to be controlled by rather than to control what you do.”
“Unless one is taught what to do with success after getting it, achievement of it must inevitably leave him prey to boredom.”
“If you're bored with life -- you don't get up every morning with a burning desire to do things -- you don't have enough goals.”
“I begin with the principle that all men are bores. Surely no one will prove himself so great a bore as to contradict me in this.”
“The life of the creative man is lead, directed and controlled by boredom. Avoiding boredom is one of our most important purposes.”
“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 is just the reverse side of fascination: both depend on being outside rather than inside a situation, and one leads to the other.”
“Only the most acute and active animals are capable of boredom. -- A theme for a great poet would be God's boredom on the seventh day of creation.”
“Surely a long life must be somewhat tedious, since we are forced to call in so many trifling things to help rid us of our time, which will never return.”
“For I have neither wit, nor words, nor worth, action nor utterance, nor the power of speech, to stir men's blood. I only speak right on. I tell you that which you yourselves do know.”
“Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours.”
“There are moments when, faced with our lack of success, I wonder whether we are failures, proud but impotent. One thing reassures me as to our value: the boredom that afflicts us. It is the hall-mark of quality in modern men.”
“I am quite serious when I say that I do not believe there are, on the whole earth besides, so many intensified bores as in these United States. No man can form an adequate idea of the real meaning of the word, without coming here.”
“Man finds nothing so intolerable as to be in a state of complete rest, without passions, without occupation, without diversion, without effort. Then he feels his nullity, loneliness, inadequacy, dependence, helplessness, emptiness.”
“Since boredom advances and boredom is the root of all evil, no wonder, then, that the world goes backwards, that evil spreads. This can be traced back to the very beginning of the world. The gods were bored; therefore they created human beings.”
“The most terrible thing about materialism, even more terrible than its proneness to violence, is its boredom, from which sex, alcohol, drugs, all devices for putting out the accusing light of reason and suppressing the unrealizable aspirations of love, offer a prospect of deliverance.”