Quote: The man who suspects his own tediousness is yet to be born.
Author: Thomas B. Aldrich 1836-1907, American Writer, Editor
Quote: The penalty for success is to be bored by people who used to snub you.
Author: Lady Nancy Astor 1897-1964, British Politician
Quote: I have a fear of being boring.
Author: Christian Bale 1974-, British-born American Actor
Quote: Everything considered, work is less boring than amusing oneself.
Author: Charles Baudelaire 1821-1867, French Poet
Quote: Boredom is like a pitiless zooming in on the epidermis of time. Every instant is dilated and magnified like the pores of the face.
Author: Jean Baudrillard French Postmodern Philosopher, Writer
Quote: Perhaps the world's second worst crime is boredom. The first is being a bore.
Author: Sir Cecil Beaton 1904-1980, British-born American Photographer
Quote: Boredom is the dream bird that hatches the egg of experience. A rustling in the leaves drives him away.
Author: Walter Benjamin 1982-1940, German Critic, Philosopher
Quote: Is boredom anything less than the sense of one's faculties slowly dying?
Author: John Berger 1926-, British Actor, Critic
Quote: The world is eaten up by boredom. You can't see it all at once. It is like dust. You go about and never notice, you breathe it in, you eat and drink it. It is sifted so fine, it doesn't even grit on your teeth. But stand still for an instant and there it is, coating your face and hands. To shake off this drizzle of ashes you must be for ever on the go. And so people are always ''on the go.''
Author: Georges Bernanos 1888-1948, French Novelist, Political Writer
Quote: Life, friends, is boring. We must not say so. After all, the sky flashes, the great sea yearns, we ourselves flash and yearn, and moreover my mother told me as a boy (repeatedly) ''Ever to confess you're bored means you have no inner Resources.'' I conclude now I have no inner resources, because I am heavy bored.
Author: John Berryman 1914-1972, American Poet
Quote: Bore -- a person who talks when you wish him to listen.
Author: Ambrose Bierce 1842-1914, American Author, Editor, Journalist, ''The Devil's Dictionary''
Quote: Never chain your dogs together with sausages. One must accustom one's self to be bored.
Author: Lady Bloomfield
Quote: Everyone is a bore to someone. That is unimportant. The things to avoid is being a bore to oneself.
Author: Gerald Brenan 1894-1987, Maltan Travel Writer, Novelist
Quote: One thing I can say about George... he may not be able to keep a job, but he's not boring.
Author: Barbara Bush 1925-, American First Lady, Wife of President George Bush
Quote: What's wrong with being a boring kind of guy?
Author: George Bush 1924-, Forty-first President of the USA
Quote: The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore.
Author: Samuel Butler 1612-1680, British Poet, Satirist
Quote: Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours.
Author: Dale Carnegie 1888-1955, American Author, Trainer
Quote: A yawn is a silent shout.
Author: Gilbert K. Chesterton 1874-1936, British Author
Quote: People who have nothing to do are quickly tired of their own company.
Author: Jeremy Collier 1650-1726, British Clergyman, Conjuror
Quote: Boredom is always counter-revolutionary. Always.
Author: Guy Debord 1931-, French Philosopher
Quote: I spent a year in that town, one Sunday.
Author: Warwick Deeping 1877-1950, British Novelist
Quote: I am quite serious when I say that I do not believe there are, on the whole earth besides, so many intensified bores as in these United States. No man can form an adequate idea of the real meaning of the word, without coming here.
Author: Charles Dickens 1812-1870, British Novelist
Quote: The age of chivalry is past. Bores have succeeded to dragons.
Author: Benjamin Disraeli 1804-1881, British Statesman, Prime Minister
Quote: My mind rebels at stagnation. Give me problems, give me work, give me the most abstruse cryptogram, or the most intricate analysis, and I am in my own proper atmosphere. I can dispense then with artificial stimulants. But I abhor the dull routine of existence. I crave for mental exaltation.
Author: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle 1859-1930, British Author, ''Sherlock Holmes''
Quote: Life is never boring, but some people choose to be bored.
Author: Wayne Dyer 1940-, American Psychotherapist, Author, Lecturer
Quote: The concept of boredom entails an inability to use up present moments in a personally fulfilling way.
Author: Wayne Dyer 1940-, American Psychotherapist, Author, Lecturer
Quote: A bore is a person who opens his mouth and puts his feats in it.
Author: Henry Ford 1863-1947, American Industrialist, Founder of Ford Motor Company
Quote: There are moments when, faced with our lack of success, I wonder whether we are failures, proud but impotent. One thing reassures me as to our value: the boredom that afflicts us. It is the hall-mark of quality in modern men.
Author: Edmond and Jules De Goncourt 1822-1896, French Writers
Quote: Only those who want everything done for them are bored.
Author: Billy Graham 1918-, American Evangelist
Quote: Too many church services start at eleven sharp and end at twelve dull.
Author: Vance Havner
Quote: To do the same thing over and over again is not only boredom: it is to be controlled by rather than to control what you do.
Author: Heraclitus BC 535-475, Greek Philosopher
Quote: When people are bored it is primarily with themselves.
Author: Eric Hoffer 1902-1983, American Author, Philosopher
Quote: If you're bored with life -- you don't get up every morning with a burning desire to do things -- you don't have enough goals.
Author: Lou Holtz 1937-, American Football Coach
Quote: Boring people are a reflection of boring people.
Author: Doug Horton
Quote: Sir, you have but two topics, yourself and me. I am sick of both.
Author: Samuel Johnson 1709-1784, British Author
Quote: Surely a long life must be somewhat tedious, since we are forced to call in so many trifling things to help rid us of our time, which will never return.
Author: Samuel Johnson 1709-1784, British Author
Quote: Boredom is the root of all evil--the despairing refusal to be oneself.
Author: Soren Kierkegaard 1813-1855, Danish Philosopher, Writer
Quote: I begin with the principle that all men are bores. Surely no one will prove himself so great a bore as to contradict me in this.
Author: Soren Kierkegaard 1813-1855, Danish Philosopher, Writer
Quote: Since boredom advances and boredom is the root of all evil, no wonder, then, that the world goes backwards, that evil spreads. This can be traced back to the very beginning of the world. The gods were bored; therefore they created human beings.
Author: Soren Kierkegaard 1813-1855, Danish Philosopher, Writer
Quote: The nice thing about being a celebrity is that, if you bore people, they think it's their fault.
Author: Henry Kissinger 1923-, American Republican Politician, Secretary of State
Quote: The wise person often shuns society for fear of being bored.
Author: Jean De La Bruyere 1645-1696, French Writer
Quote: The devil's name is dullness.
Author: Robert E. Lee 1807-1870, American Confederate Army Commander
Quote: His shortcoming is his long staying.
Author: Lewis L. Lewisohn
Quote: Bores bore each other too; but it never seems to teach them anything.
Author: Don Marquis 1878-1937, American Humorist, Journalist
Quote: The life of a creator is not the only life nor perhaps the most interesting which a man leads. There is a time for play and a time for work, a time for creation and a time for lying fallow. And there is a time, glorious too in its own way, when one scarcely exists, when one is a complete void. I mean -- when boredom seems the very stuff of life.
Author: Henry Miller 1891-1980, American Author
Quote: The most terrible thing about materialism, even more terrible than its proneness to violence, is its boredom, from which sex, alcohol, drugs, all devices for putting out the accusing light of reason and suppressing the unrealizable aspirations of love, offer a prospect of deliverance.
Author: Malcolm Muggeridge 1903-1990, British Broadcaster
Quote: Against boredom the gods themselves fight in vain.
Author: Friedrich Nietzsche 1844-1900, German Philosopher
Quote: 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.
Author: Friedrich Nietzsche 1844-1900, German Philosopher
Quote: You'll find boredom where there is an absence of a good idea.
Author: Earl Nightingale 1921-1989, American Radio Announcer, Author, Motivator, Speaker
Quote: The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity.
Author: Ellen Parr
Quote: Man finds nothing so intolerable as to be in a state of complete rest, without passions, without occupation, without diversion, without effort. Then he feels his nullity, loneliness, inadequacy, dependence, helplessness, emptiness.
Author: Blaise Pascal 1623-1662, French Scientist, Religious Philosopher
Quote: And 'tis remarkable that they talk most who have the least to say.
Author: Matthew Prior 1664-1721, British Diplomat, Poet
Quote: Boredom is a vital problem for the moralist, since at least half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it.
Author: Bertrand Russell 1872-1970, British Philosopher, Mathematician, Essayist
Quote: Unless one is taught what to do with success after getting it, achievement of it must inevitably leave him prey to boredom.
Author: Bertrand Russell 1872-1970, British Philosopher, Mathematician, Essayist
Quote: Good-bye. I am leaving because I am bored. Author: George Sanders
Quote: People of Wealth and the so called upper class suffer the most from boredom.
Author: Arthur Schopenhauer 1788-1860, German Philosopher
Quote: For I have neither wit, nor words, nor worth, action nor utterance, nor the power of speech, to stir men's blood. I only speak right on. I tell you that which you yourselves do know.
Author: William Shakespeare 1564-1616, British Poet, Playwright, Actor
Quote: Boredom is just the reverse side of fascination: both depend on being outside rather than inside a situation, and one leads to the other.
Author: Susan Sontag 1933-, American Essayist
Quote: The life of the creative man is lead, directed and controlled by boredom. Avoiding boredom is one of our most important purposes.
Author: Saul Steinberg
Quote: A bore is a man who, when you ask him how he is, tells you.
Author: Bert Leston Taylor
Quote: Somebody's boring me. I think it's me.
Author: Dylan Thomas 1914-1953, Welsh Poet
Quote: Boredom: the desire for desires.
Author: Count Leo Tolstoy 1828-1910, Russian Novelist, Philosopher
Quote: A bore is a man who has nothing to say and says it anyway.
Author: Source Unknown
Quote: Boredom is a disease of the mind and psyche, an insidious disease. It not only takes the joy out of life, but the creativity as well. No one of God's children should ever be bored with life.
Author: Source Unknown
Quote: Boredom is not an end-product, is comparatively rather an early stage in life and art. You've got to go by or past or through boredom, as through a filter, before the clear product emerges.
Author: Source Unknown
Quote: He who seeks rest finds boredom. He who seeks work finds rest.
Author: Source Unknown
Quote: A healthy male adult bore consumes each year one and a half times his own weight in other people's patience.
Author: John Updike 1932-, American Novelist, Critic
Quote: All kinds are good except the kind that bores you.
Author: Voltaire 1694-1778, French Historian, Writer