Boredom Quotes

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

Great, God, After

Virtuous people often revenge themselves for the constraints to which they submit by the boredom which they inspire.
Confucius

Revenge, Often, Themselves

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

Evil, Oneself, Refusal

The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom.
Arthur Schopenhauer

Happiness, Pain, Human

I don't believe in an afterlife, so I don't have to spend my whole life fearing hell, or fearing heaven even more. For whatever the tortures of hell, I think the boredom of heaven would be even worse.
Isaac Asimov

Life, Hell, Whole

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.
Soren Kierkegaard

Evil, Human, Bored

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

Fear, Problem, Since

Boredom: the desire for desires.
Leo Tolstoy

Desire, Desires

As soon as you set foot on a yacht you belong to some man, not to yourself, and you die of boredom.
Coco Chanel

Yourself, Die, Soon

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

Great, Die, Ambition

Jump out the window if you are the object of passion. Flee it if you feel it. Passion goes, boredom remains.
Coco Chanel

Passion, Goes, Object

Your true traveller finds boredom rather agreeable than painful. It is the symbol of his liberty - his excessive freedom. He accepts his boredom, when it comes, not merely philosophically, but almost with pleasure.
Aldous Huxley

Freedom, True, Liberty

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

Live, Sacrifice, Free

Something opens our wings. Something makes boredom and hurt disappear. Someone fills the cup in front of us: We taste only sacredness.
Rumi

Hurt, Someone, Makes

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

Rather, Both, Situation

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.
Heraclitus

Control, Same, Again

Teens think listening to music helps them concentrate. It doesn't. It relieves them of the boredom that concentration on homework induces.
Marilyn vos Savant

Music, Listening, Homework

The Beatles saved the world from boredom.
George Harrison

Boredom is the legitimate kingdom of the philanthropic.
Virginia Woolf

Kingdom, Legitimate

There's no excuse to be bored. Sad, yes. Angry, yes. Depressed, yes. Crazy, yes. But there's no excuse for boredom, ever.
Viggo Mortensen

Sad, Crazy, Angry

Boredom is rage spread thin.
Paul Tillich

Rage, Thin, Spread

This is the curse of our age, even the strangest aberrations are no cure for boredom.
Stendhal

Age, Curse, Cure

Even boredom has its crises.
Mason Cooley

Without lies humanity would perish of despair and boredom.
Anatole France

Humanity, Lies, Despair

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

Time, Feeling, Nothing

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

Good, Find, Idea

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

American, Off, Minds

Perhaps the world's second worst crime is boredom. The first is being a bore.
Jean Baudrillard

Second, Worst, Crime

The life of the creative man is lead, directed and controlled by boredom. Avoiding boredom is one of our most important purposes.
Susan Sontag

Life, Important, Creative

He who seeks rest finds boredom. He who seeks work finds rest.
Dylan Thomas

Work, Rest, Finds

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