The concept of boredom entails an inability to use up present moments in a personally fulfilling way.
Wayne Dyer
Against boredom the gods themselves fight in vain.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Who wants a world in which the guarantee that we shall not die of starvation entails the risk of dying of boredom?
Raoul Vaneigem
The two foes of human happiness are pain and boredom
Arthur Schopenhauer
Rest is a good thing, but boredom is its brother.
Voltaire
Probably the difference between man and the monkeys is that the monkeys are merely bored, while man has boredom plus imagination.
Lin Yutang
Life swings like a pendulum backward and forward between pain and boredom
Arthur Schopenhauer
Boredom, after all, is a form of criticism
Wendell Phillips
Boredom is what you fight. Constant, ever-present boredom. So you learn to look forward to small things. Sunlight glimpsed through a cloud, an extra piece of pie or candy, good thread to sew your blouse, a ribbon to wear in your hair.
Valerie W. Wesley
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
Want and boredom are indeed the twin poles of human life.
Arthur Schopenhauer
Boredom is just the reverse side of fascination: both depend on being outside rather than inside a situation, and one leads to the other.
Susan Sontag
Boredom is the dream bird that hatches the egg of experience. A rustling in the leaves drives him away.
Walter Benjamin
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