Funny Boredom Quotes

• Boredom: the desire for desires.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Boredom, Desire, Enthusiasm

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

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

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Happiness, Happy, Pain

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

  Thomas Carlyle

  Inspirational, Ambition, Boredom

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• Life is never boring, but some people choose to be bored.

  Wayne Dyer

  People, Boredom, Life Is

  Wayne W. Dyer (2009). “Staying on the Path: Easyread Super Large 18pt Edition”, p.6, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Nobody is bored when he is trying to make something that is beautiful or to discover something that is true.

  William Ralph Inge

  Beauty, Beautiful, Truth

  William Ralph Inge (1939). “Our present discontents”

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• Boredom is just the reverse side of fascination.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Philosophical, Boredom, Fascination

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• Probably the difference between man and the monkeys is that the monkeys are merely bored, while man has boredom plus imagination.

  Lin Yutang

  Blessing, Men, Differences

  Lin Yutang (1937). “The Importance of Living”

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• Boredom slays more of existence than war.

  Norman Mailer

  War, Boredom, Existence

  Norman Mailer, Michael Lennon (1988). “Conversations with Norman Mailer”, p.93, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• You'll find boredom where there is the absence of a good idea.

  Earl Nightingale

  Blessing, Ideas, Boredom

  Dr. Robert C. Worstell, Dorothea Brande, Claude M. Bristol, Earl Nightingale, Napoleon Hill (2017). “Mindset StackingTM Inspirational Journal VolumeSS01”, p.16, Lulu.com

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• There are no uninteresting things, only uninterested people.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  I Hate You, Ignorance, People

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• Punctuality is the virtue of the bored.

  Evelyn Waugh

  Work, Blessing, Bores You

  Michael Davie (ed.) Diaries of Evelyn Waugh (1976) "Irregular Notes 1960-65," 26 Mar. 1962

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• Perhaps the world's second worst crime is boredom. The first is being a bore.

  Cecil Beaton

  Boredom, World, Firsts

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

  Zelda Fitzgerald

  Boredom, Boring, Bores

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

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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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• Someone has somewhere commented on the fact that millions long for immortality who don't know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon.

  Susan Ertz

  Inspirational, Death, Sunday

  Anger in the Sky ch. 5 (1943)

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• Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time; serenity, that nothing is.

  Thomas Szasz

  Happiness, Patience, Attitude

  Thomas Stephen Szasz (1973). “The second sin”, Anchor

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• The penalty for success is to be bored by the people who used to snub you.

  Nancy Astor

  Success, Women, Bores You

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• Boredom, after all, is a form of criticism.

  Wendell Phillips

  Boredom, Criticism, Form

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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, Boredom

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

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• A bore is someone who deprives you of solitude without providing you with company.

  Oscar Wilde

  Bores You, Boredom, Solitude

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• The truth is that everyone is bored, and devotes himself to cultivating habits.

  Albert Camus

  Life, Boredom, Existential

  ALBERT CAMUS (1971). “NOBEL PRIZE LIBRARY”

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• Boredom is... a vital problem for the moralist, since half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it.

  Bertrand Russell

  Fear, Boredom, Half

  Conquest of Happiness (1930) ch. 4

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

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Good Life, Roots, Evil

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