Quotes on boredom
Boredom is an emptiness filled with insistence.
Stein, Leo
I am never bored anywhere: being bored is an insult to oneself.
Renard, Jules
My own business always bores me to death. I prefer other people's.
Wilde, Oscar
Ennui has made more gamblers than avarice, more drunkards than thirst, and perhaps as many suicides as despair.
Colton, Charles Caleb
The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity.
Parker, Dorothy
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.
Wright, Steven
Punctuality is the virtue of the bored.
Waugh, Evelyn
Boredom is like a pitiless zooming in on the epidermis of time. Every instant is dilated and magnified like the pores of the face.
Whitton, Charlotte
Boredom flourishes too, when you feel safe. It's a symptom of security.
Ionesco, Eugene
Boredom is a sickness the cure for which is work; pleasure is only a palliative.
Lévis, Le Duc de
Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time; serenity, that nothing is.
Szasz, Thomas
The war between being and nothingness is the underlying illness of the twentieth century. Boredom slays more of existence than war.
Mailer, Norman
All man's troubles come from not knowing how to sit still in one room.
Pascal, Blaise
Boredom is a vital problem for the moralist, since at least half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it.
Russell, Bertrand
Grasp your opportunities, no matter how poor your health; nothing is worse for your health than boredom.
McLaughlin, Mignon