Boredom Quotes and Sayings

Sometimes, and more frequently for some of us, we get bored. It can be because of a dull environment, no activity, or repetitive activity, but all of us get bored at some point or the other. These boredom quotes will relate to all of us who get bored quickly and need to do new and exciting things everyday.

Collection of our favorite Boredom Quotes:

Everyone is a bore to someone. That is unimportant. The thing to avoid is being a bore to oneself.
~Gerald Brenan

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

The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore.
~Samuel Butler

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

Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours.
~Dale Carnegie

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

The word aerobics comes from two Greek words: aero, meaning “ability to,” and bics, meaning “withstand tremendous boredom”
~Dave Barry

A bore is a man who, when you ask him how he is, tells you.
~Bert Leston Taylor

Work spares us from three evils: boredom, vice, and need.
~Voltaire

Punctuality is the virtue of the bored.
~Evelyn Waugh

Boredom is rage spread thin.
~Paul Tillich

The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity.
~Ellen Parr

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

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

Is boredom anything less than the sense of one’s faculties slowly dying?.
~John Berger

His shortcoming is his long staying.
~Lewis L. Lewisohn

Boredom: the desire for desires.
~Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy

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

Never chain your dogs together with sausages. One must accustom one’s self to be bored.
~Lady Bloomfield

Everyone is a bore to someone. That is unimportant. The things to avoid is being a bore to oneself.
~Gerald Brenan

Perhaps the world’s second worst crime is boredom. The first is being a bore.
~Sir Cecil Beaton

Life swings like a pendulum backward and forward between pain and boredom.
~Arthur Schopenhauer

I spent a year in that town, one Sunday.
~Warwick Deeping

I have a fear of being boring.
~Christian Bale

Boredom is like a pitiless zooming in on the epidermis of time. Every instant is dilated and magnified like the pores of the face.
~Jean Baudrillard

There’s no excuse to be bored. Sad, yes. Angry, yes. Depressed, yes. Crazy, yes. But there’s no excuse for boredom, ever.
~Karolvig

What’s wrong with being a boring kind of guy?.
~George Bush

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

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