Boredom quotes

Discover insightful quotes and wise words on Boredom, offering inspiration and perspective to break free from monotony and infuse life with creativity and passion.

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

- Pappy Boyington

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

- Soren Kierkegaard

Boredom is rage spread thin.

- Paul Tillich

It's precisely in those moments when I don't know what to do, boredom drives one to try a host of possibilities to either get somewhere or not get anywhere.

- Anish Kapoor

It is only a step from boredom to disillusionment, which leads naturally to self-pity, which in turn ends in chaos.

- Manly Hall

I know when I'm working I seldom get into trouble. My educated guess is that boredom has caused most of the problems with Hollywood celebrities.

- Hedy Lamarr

It is the unknown that excites the ardor of scholars, who, in the known alone, would shrivel up with boredom.

- Wallace Stevens

Much is forgiven anyone who relieves the desperate boredom of the working press.

- William Weld

Without lies humanity would perish of despair and boredom.

- Anatole France

Miss Searle had always considered boredom an intellectual defeat.

- Mary Renault

Writer's block is the greatest side effect of boredom.

- Jason Zebehazy

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

- Rumi

It's the boredom that kills you. You read until you're tired of that. You do crossword puzzles until you're tired of that. This is torture. This is mental torture.

- Jack Kevorkian

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

When we hold back out of laziness, that is when we tie ourselves into knots of boredom.

- Walter Annenberg

Is boredom anything less than the sense of one's faculties slowly dying?

- Arthur Helps

There's a rebirth that goes on with us continuously as human beings. I don't understand, personally, how you can be bored. I can understand how you can be depressed, but I just don't understand boredom.

- Dustin Hoffman

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

- Coco Chanel

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

- Coco Chanel

Boredom, after all, is a form of criticism.

- Wendell Phillips