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Boredom Quotes

Boredom Definition  
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A subject for a great poet would be God's boredom after the seventh day of creation.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Airline travel is hours of boredom interrupted by moments of stark terror.
Al Boliska

As actors, the thing we have to fight, more than even the business part of making movies, is boredom.
Linda Fiorentino

Before, for me, peace could have been synonymous with boredom.
Isabelle Adjani

Boredom is always counter-revolutionary. Always.
Guy Debord

Boredom is just the reverse side of fascination: both depend on being outside rather than inside a situation, and one leads to the other.
Arthur Schopenhauer

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

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, after all, is a form of criticism.
Wendell Phillips

Boredom: the desire for desires.
Leo Tolstoy

Discussing how old you are is the temple of boredom.
Ruth Gordon

Economics is a subject profoundly conducive to cliche, resonant with boredom. On few topics is an American audience so practiced in turning off its ears and minds. And none can say that the response is ill advised.
John Kenneth Galbraith

Even boredom has its crises.
Mason Cooley

Flying is hours and hours of boredom sprinkled with a few seconds of sheer terror.
Pappy Boyington

For all the boredom the straight life brings, it's not too bad.
Gus Van Sant

For boredom speaks the language of time, and it is to teach you the most valuable lesson of your life - the lesson of your utter insignificance.
Joseph Brodsky

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