Very few people don’t get bored at some point or the other. Only the superhuman and the workaholics don’t get bored. I also get bored very fast, and I need constant change in life, though its ironic that the change should be constant. Here are a collection of boredom quotes.
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
Punctuality is the virtue of the bored.
~ Evelyn Waugh
The word aerobics comes from two Greek words: aero, meaning “ability to,” and bics, meaning “withstand tremendous boredom”
~Dave Barry
The two foes of human happiness are pain and boredomî
~Arthur Schopenhauer, A German Philosopher
Boredom, after all, is a form of criticism.
~Wendell Phillips
Boredom is just the reverse side of fascination: both depend on being outside rather than inside a situation, and one leads to the other.
~Arthur Schopenhauer
He who seeks rest finds boredom. He who seeks work finds rest.
~Dylan Thomas
One should only see a psychiatrist out of boredom.
~Muriel Spark
The biggest bore is the person who is bored by everyone and everything.
~Frank Tyger
Much is forgiven anyone who relieves the desperate boredom of the working press.
~William Weld
Boredom: the desire for desires.
~Leo Tolstoy
You’ll find boredom where there is the absence of a good idea.
~Earl Nightingale
Life is as tedious as a twice-told tale
Vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man.
~ William Shakespeare
A bore is a man who deprives you of solitude without providing you with company.
~ Gian Vincenzo Gravina
I am never bored anywhere: being bored is an insult to oneself.
~Jules Renard
The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity.
~Dorothy Parker
A subject for a great poet would be God’s boredom after the seventh day of creation.
~Friedrich Nietzsche
In order to live free and happily you must sacrifice boredom. It is not always an easy sacrifice.
~Richard Bach
Boredom is the legitimate kingdom of the philanthropic.
~Virginia Woolf
Boredom is the root of all evil – the despairing refusal to be oneself.
~Soren Kierkegaard
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