Famous Quotes & Sayings

Guy deBord

Boredom is always counter-revolutionary. Always.

Jacques Barzun

Boredom and fatigue are great historical forces.

Jackie Collins

I don't like being in one place too long. Five days just about does it for me because I have a very low threshold for boredom.

James Gleick

We choose mania over boredom every time.

Iggy Pop

They say that death kills you, But death doesn't kill you. Boredom and indifference kill you.

Hugh Prather

Boredom or discontent is useful to me when I acknowledge it and see clearly my assumption that there's something else I would rather be doing. In this way boredom can act as an invitation to freedom by opening me to new options and thoughts. For example, if I can't change the activity, can I look at it more honestly?

Fernando Pessoa

My boredom with everything has numbed me.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

The prospect of being pleased tomorrow will never console me for the boredom of today.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Boredom ... causes us to neglect more duties than does interest.

Francisco Costa

I have no tolerance for boredom. I spend so many hours in the office, and I still love it.

Moss Hart

Boredom is the keynote of poverty - of all its indignities, it is perhaps the hardest of all to live with - for where there is no money there is no change of any kind.

Paulo Coelho

Boredom is not in the world, but in the way we see the world.

Edward Tufte

Audience boredom is usually a content failure, not a decoration failure.

John Jay Chapman

As for boredom ... I notice that it leaves me as soon as I am doing something that has got to be done.

Leo Tolstoy

Boredom is desire seeking desire.

Leo Tolstoy

Boredom: the desire for desires.

Lord Hailsham

You ought not to be ashamed of being bored. What you ought to be ashamed of is being boring.

Freya Stark

monotony is not to be worshipped as a virtue; nor the marriage bed treated as a coffin for security rather than a couch from which to rise refreshed.

Emile M. Cioran

There is only one thing worse than boredom, and that is the fear of boredom.

Emile M. Cioran

Boredom dismantles the mind, renders it superficial, out at the seams, saps it from within and dislocates it.

Judith Viorst

Mid-grade readers don't have short attention spans, they just have low boredom tolerance.

Perry Farrell

If you're not part of the freaks, you're part of the boredom.

Mary McGrory

[On Senator Everett Dirksen:] His great enemy was boredom and he won every engagement.

Tim Gunn

We shop out of boredom, for release, for excitement, for a sense of achievement, for a sense of control over our unruly existences. And every so often, we shop because we need something to wear.

Tom Hodgkinson

Punk was a protest against work and against boredom. It was a sign of life, a rant, a scream, a rejection of bourgeois morals. But have things improved since then? Arguably, they've got worse.

Tom Hodgkinson

Idleness allows you to turn a situation from boredom to pleasure.

Tom Hodgkinson

Life has been reduced to a series of long periods of boredom in the office punctuated by high-octane "experiences" which you can rack up on your list of things to do before you die. That's not really living: that is slavery with the occasional circus thrown in.

Tommy Chong

Boredom is a disease, too.

Susan Orlean

I finally overcame my phobia, and now I approach flying with a sort of studied boredom - a learned habit, thanks to my learn-to-fly-calmly training - but like all former flying phobics, I retain a weird and feverish fascination with aviation news, especially bad news.

Leonard Orr

Boredom is the effort used in suppressing something negative.

Terry Pratchett

I’ve seen excitement, and I’ve seen boredom. And boredom was best.

Tallulah Bankhead

If I were well behaved, I'd die of boredom.

Tony Robbins

Many people try to avoid pressure, yet the absence of any tension or pressure usually creates a sense of boredom and the lackluster experience of life that so many people complain about.