Boredom Quotes

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

Soren Kierkegaard

Against boredom the gods themselves fight in vain.

Friedrich Nietzsche

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

Work saves us from three great evils: boredom, vice and need.

Voltaire

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

Only the most acute and active animals are capable of boredom. -- A theme for a great poet would be God's boredom on the seventh day of creation.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Everything considered, work is less boring than amusing oneself.

Charles Baudelaire

The capacity of human beings to bore one another seems to be vastly greater than that of any other animal.

H. L. Mencken

Boredom is like a pitiless zooming in on the epidermis of time. Every instant is dilated and magnified like the pores of the face.

Charlotte Whitton

Boredom: the desire for desires.

Leo Tolstoy

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

Boredom is the dream bird that hatches the egg of experience. A rustling in the leaves drives him away.

Walter Benjamin

Boredom is the deadliest poison.

William F. Buckley, JR.

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

Want and boredom are indeed the twin poles of human life.

Arthur Schopenhauer

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

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