Before, for me, peace could have been synonymous with boredom.
- Isabelle Adjani

All man’s troubles come from not knowing how to sit still in one room.
- Blaise Pascal

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

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

For all the boredom the straight life brings, it’s not too bad.
- Gus Van Sant

It is not the simple statement of facts that ushers in freedom; it is the constant repetition of them that has this liberating effect. Tolerance is the result not of enlightenment, but of boredom.
- Quentin Crisp

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

Boredom: the desire for desires.
- Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy

A variety of nothing is superior to a monotony of something.
- Jean Paul Richter

Our only competition in the theater is boredom, because if I’m bored with a play, if I’m revolted by a play on stage, with the Broadway prices, especially today, I’m going to walk out and not come back and pay that price again.
- Jerome Lawrence

I can excuse everything but boredom. Boring people don’t have to stay that way.
- Hedy Lamarr

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

He is an old bore; even the grave yawns for him.
- Herbert Beerbohm Tree

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

A healthy male adult bore consumes each year one and a half times his own weight in other people’s patience.
- John Updike

In love there are no vacations. No such thing. Love has to be lived fully with its boredom and all that.
- Marguerite Duras

In marketing you must choose between boredom, shouting and seduction. Which do you want?
- Roy H. Williams

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

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

When people are bored, it is primarily with their own selves.
- Eric Hoffer

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

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

Even boredom has its crises.
- Mason Cooley

I am never bored anywhere:  being bored is an insult to oneself.
- Jules Renard

For boredom speaks the language of time, and it is to teach you the most valuable lesson of your life – the lesson of your utter insignificance.
- Joseph Brodsky

Nobody is bored when he is trying to make something that is beautiful or to discover something that is true.
- W. R. Inge

He has returned from Italy a greater bore than ever; he bores on architecture, painting, statuary and music.
- Sydney Smith

Procrastination avoids boredom; one never has the feeling that there is nothing important to do.
- Author Unknown

Airline travel is hours of boredom interrupted by moments of stark terror.
- Al Boliska

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

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

Punctuality is the virtue of the bored.
- Evelyn Waugh

The devil’s name is dullness.
- Robert E. Lee

How some of the writers I come across get through their books without dying of boredom is beyond me.
- William Gaddis

Boredom turns a man to sex, a woman to shopping, and it drives newscasters berserk.
- Bruce Herschensohn

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

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

As actors, the thing we have to fight, more than even the business part of making movies, is boredom.
- Linda Fiorentino

The man who suspects his own tediousness has yet to be born.
- Thomas Bailey Aldrich

Idle people are often bored and bored people, unless they sleep a lot, are cruel. It is not accident that boredom and cruelty are great preoccupations in our time.
- Renata Adler

Morality is a venereal disease. Its primary stage is called virtue; its secondary stage, boredom; its tertiary stage, syphilis.
- Karl Kraus