Quotes about Boredom

Explore a curated collection of 475 quotes about Boredom at QuotesRead.com. Discover timeless wisdom, insightful thoughts, and memorable words on Boredom from famous authors and thinkers around the world.

Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves? — Friedrich Nietzsche
I really think I write about everyday life. I don't think I'm quite as odd as others say I am. Life is intrinsically, we — Edward Gorey
The absence of the will to live is, alas, not sufficient to make one want to die. — Michel Houellebecq
... millions long for immortality who don't know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon. — Susan Ertz
What kind of life can you have in a house without books? — Sherman Alexie, Flight
To me, at least in retrospect, the really interesting question is why dullness proves to be such a powerful impediment t — David Foster Wallace
I’m bored’ is a useless thing to say. I mean, you live in a great, big, vast world that you’ve seen none percent of. Eve — Louis C.K.
Boredom can be a lethal thing on a small island. — Christopher Moore, Island of the Sequined Love Nun
HUMAN BEINGS MAKE LIFE SO INTERESTING. DO YOU KNOW, THAT IN A UNIVERSE SO FULL OF WONDERS, THEY HAVE MANAGED TO INVENT B — Terry Pratchett, Hogfather
What's this about?""Finally. Interest," was the only response."If this is one of your tricks..." Like the time Torin had — Gena Showalter, The Darkest Night
The rich fop Francis of Assisi was bored all his life―until he fell in love with Christ and gave all his stuff away and — Peter Kreeft, Jesus-Shock
The most total opposite of pleasure is not pain but boredom, for we are willing to risk pain to make a boring life inter — Peter Kreeft, Jesus-Shock
Everything smaller than Heaven bores us because only Heaven is bigger than our hearts. — Peter Kreeft, Jesus-Shock
Violence is spiritual junk food, and boredom is spiritual anorexia. — Peter Kreeft, Jesus-Shock
At the end of the day your ability to connect with your readers comes down to how you make them feel. — Benjamin J. Carey, Barefoot in November
Actually, I jade very quickly. Once is usually enough. Either once only, or every day. If you do something once it’s exc — Andy Warhol
We all need a technological detox; we need to throw away our phones and computers instead of using them as our pseudo-de — Evan Sutter, Solitude: How Doing Nothing Can Change the World
Happiness changes the way you see the world. — Auliq Ice
This life-enhancing, happiness-inducing miracle drug that does, in fact, ruthlessly kill its enemies—you’ve guessed it—i — Auliq Ice
If this turns to friendship, it only meansThat one of us will suffer.That when we meet after the worst of endings,There — Cyril Wong, Below: Absence: Poems