quotations about boredom
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
The Conquest of Happiness
Boredom was my bedmate and it was hogging the sheets.
ANDREW DAVIDSON
The Gargoyle
Did perpetual happiness in the Garden of Eden maybe get so boring that eating the apple was justified?
CHUCK PALAHNIUK
Survivor
In the beginning was boredom, commonly called chaos. God, bored with boredom, created the earth, the sky, the waters, the animals, the plants, Adam and Eve; and the latter, bored in their turn in paradise, ate the forbidden fruit. God became bored with them and drove them out of Eden.
ALBERTO MORAVIA
La Noia
She refused to be bored chiefly because she wasn't boring.
ZELDA FITZGERALD
"Eulogy on the Flapper", Metropolitan Magazine, June 1922
If you didn't care what happened to me,
and i didn't care for you,
we would zig zag our way through the boredom and pain,
occasionally glancing up through the rain
wondering which of the buggers to blame
and watching for pigs on the wing.
PINK FLOYD
"Pigs on the Wing, Part 1"
Is boredom anything less than the sense of one's faculties slowly dying?
JOHN BERGER
A Fortunate Man
Nothing is so stifling as symmetry. Symmetry is boredom, the quintessence of mourning. Despair yawns. There is something more terrible than a hell of suffering -- a hell of boredom.
VICTOR HUGO
Les Misérables
Soon he felt rising in his soul a desire for desires -- boredom.
LEO TOLSTOY
Anna Karenina
A man would die, though he were neither valiant, nor miserable, only upon a weariness to do the same thing so oft, over and over.
FRANCIS BACON
"Of Death", The Essays or Counsels
Boredom is simply romanticism with a morning-after thirst.
SAMUEL HOPKINS ADAMS
Average Jones
Eventually, boredom means you will take up golf.
JEREMY CLARKSON
The World According to Clarkson
Boredom is the keynote of poverty -- of all its indignities, it is perhaps the hardest of all to live with -- for where there is no money there is no change of any kind.
MOSS HART
Act One
Boredom is a powerful incentive to come up with bad ideas.
JONAH GOLDBERG
"Free-Market Boring ... Losing Consciousness", National Review, January 24, 2001
Boredom's a pastime that one soon acquired
Where you get to the stage, where you're not even tired
Kicking your heels 'til the time comes around
To pick up your bags and head out of town
ELTON JOHN
"Holiday Inn"
Boredom is the fear of self.
COMTESSE DIANE
attributed, Words from the Wise: Over 6,000 of the Smartest Things Ever Said
A well-stocked mind is safe from boredom.
ARTHUR C. CLARK
Childhood's End
The tendency is to blame boredom on the environment. "This town is really dull" or "What a boring speaker." The particular town or speaker is never dull, it is you experiencing the boredom, and you can eliminate it by doing something else with your mind or energy at that moment.
WAYNE W. DYER
Your Erroneous Zones
Boredom is always counter-revolutionary. Always.
GUY DEBORD
The Incomplete Works of the Situationist International
We often forgive those who bore us, but never those whom we bore.
LA ROCHEFOUCAULD
Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims