Boredom Quotes

• The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Happiness, Happy, Pain

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• Boredom: the desire for desires.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Desire, Enthusiasm, Bores

  "Anna Karenina". Book by Leo Tolstoy, 1877.

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• I've got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Inspirational, Ambition, Experience

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• The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity.

  Dorothy Parker

  Funny, Life, Wisdom

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• Existence for eternity could get a little boring... especially towards the end.

  Woody Allen

  Directors, Littles, Boring

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• Fact is, perfection is boring.

  Robert Genn

  Perfection, Facts, Boring

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• 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

  Inspirational, Sad, Depression

  "Finding Viggo" by Alex Kuczynski, Vanity Fair, January 1, 2004.

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• To do the same thing over and over again is not only boredom: it is to be controlled by rather than to control what you do.

  Heraclitus

  Work, Bores You, Controlled

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• One of the worst forms of mental suffering is boredom, not knowing what to do with oneself and one's life. Even if man had no monetary, or any other reward, he would be eager to spend his energy in some meaningful way because he could not stand the boredom which inactivity produces.

  Erich Fromm

  Meaningful, Men, Knowing

  Erich Fromm (2012). “The Sane Society”, p.282, Routledge

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• The only unhappiness is a life of boredom.

  Stendhal

  Unhappiness

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• Boredom is useful to me when I notice it and think: Oh I'm bored; there must be something else I want to be doing... boredom acts as an initiator of originality by pushing me into new activities or new thoughts.

  Hugh Prather

  Thinking, Want, Pushing

  Hugh Prather (1983). “Notes to Myself”, Bantam

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• The amount of satisfaction you get from life depends largely on your own ingenuity, self-sufficiency, and resourcefulness. People who wait around for life to supply their satisfaction usually find boredom instead.

  William C. Menninger

  Inspirational, Self, People

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• 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. Even the inside of your own mind is endless; it goes on forever, inwardly, do you understand? The fact that you’re alive is amazing, so you don’t get to say ‘I’m bored.

  Louis C. K.

  Inspirational, Funny, Life

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• Somebody's boring me. I think it's me.

  Dylan Thomas

  Book, Reading, Thinking

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• Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves?

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Inspirational, Life, Passion

  "Beyond Good and Evil". Book by Friedrich Nietzsche, Chapter VII: Our Virtues, Aphorism 227, 1886.

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• She refused to be bored chiefly because she wasn't boring.

  Zelda Fitzgerald

  Boring, Bores, Being Bored

  Zelda Fitzgerald (2013). “The Collected Writings of Zelda Fitzgerald”, p.457, Simon and Schuster

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• In your life’s journey, there will be excitement and fulfillment, boredom and routine, and even the occasional train wreck… But when you have picked a dream that is bigger than you personally, that truly reflects the ideals that you cherish, and that can positively affect others, then you will always have another reason for carrying on.

  Pamela Melroy

  Dream, Journey, Train Wrecks

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• Extreme boredom provides its own antidote.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Bored, Antidote, Extremes

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• Boredom is the thing that regularly arrives between excitements and episodes of meaning: it is as natural as the tides, and in it an artist can drown.

  Eric Maisel

  Artist, Tides, Excitement

  Eric Maisel (1996). “Affirmations for Artists”, Tarcher

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• A bore is a man who, when you ask him how he is, tells you.

  Bert Leston Taylor

  Men, Bores You, Asks

  The So-Called Human Race (1922) p. 163

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• The one sure means of dealing with boredom is to care for someone else, to do something kind and good.

  Theodor Haecker

  Mean, Care, Kind

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• Death: Human beings make life so interesting. Do you know, that in a universe so full of wonders, they have managed to invent boredom.

  Terry Pratchett

  Interesting, Apathy, Wonder

  "Fictional character: Death". "Terry Pratchett's Hogfather", www.imdb.com. 2006.

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• Only the most acute and active animals are capable of boredom.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Animal, Active, Capable

  Friedrich Nietzsche, R. J. Hollingdale (1996). “Nietzsche: Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits”, p.323, Cambridge University Press

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• Boredom is rage spread thin.

  Paul Tillich

  Blessing, Rage, Spread

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• Listen to your life. See it for the fathomless mystery it is. In the boredom and pain of it, no less than in the excitement and gladness: touch, taste, smell your way to the holy and hidden heart of it, because in the last analysis all moments are key moments, and life itself is grace.

  Frederick Buechner

  Life, Spiritual, Pain

  FaceBook post by Frederick Buechner from Jun 12, 2014

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