The capacity of human beings to bore one another seems to be vastly greater than that of any other animal.
H. L. Mencken
Work saves us from three great evils: boredom, vice and need.
Voltaire
It seems that boredom is one of the greatest discoveries of our time. If so, there's no question but that he must be considered a pioneer.
Luchino Visconti
Boredom is the root of all evil - the despairing refusal to be oneself.
Soren Kierkegaard
Everything considered, work is less boring than amusing oneself.
Charles Baudelaire
The concept of boredom entails an inability to use up present moments in a personally fulfilling way.
Wayne Dyer
The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity.
Dorothy Parker
Boredom is the legitimate kingdom of the philanthropic.
Virginia Woolf
Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time; serenity, that nothing is.
Thomas Szasz
Boredom is an emptiness filled with insistence.
Leo Stein
Boredom is nothing but the experience of a paralysis of our productive powers.
Erich Fromm
I am convinced that boredom is one of the greatest tortures. If I were to imagine Hell, it would be the place where you were continually bored.
Erich Fromm
You'll find boredom where there is the absence of a good idea
Earl Nightingale
The two foes of human happiness are pain and boredom
Arthur Schopenhauer
The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore.
Samuel Butler