10 Quotes About Boredom


The war between being and nothingness is the underlying illness of the twentieth century.  Boredom slays more of existence than war.  
Norman Mailer

Ennui has made more gamblers than avarice, more drunkards than thirst, and perhaps as many suicides as despair.  
C.C. Colton 
Boredom flourishes too, when you feel safe.  It's a symptom of security. 
Eugene Ionesco

Nobody is bored when he is trying to make something that is beautiful, or to discover something that is true.  
William Inge 
Earth's nothing more than a rotating ball of boredom.  
Star Trek
Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time; serenity, that nothing is.
Thomas Szasz
Boredom is like a pitiless zooming in on the epidermis of time.  Every instant is dilated and magnified like the pores of the face.  
Charlotte Whitton
All man's troubles come from not knowing how to sit still in one room. 
Blaise Pascal
When I get real bored, I like to drive downtown and get a great parking spot, then sit in my car and count how many people ask me if I'm leaving. 
Steven Wright
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
Grasp your opportunities, no matter how poor your health; nothing is worse for your health than boredom.  
Mignon McLaughlin
 I am never bored anywhere:  being bored is an insult to oneself. 
Jules Renard

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