Quotes about Boredom

Andy Warhol

Artist, Director, Producer

I'm bored with that line. I never use it anymore. My new line is 'In 15 minutes everybody will be famous.'

Art - Boredom

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Neil Gaiman

Author, Screenwriter

Everybody has a secret world inside of them. I mean everybody. All of the people in the whole world, I mean everybody — no matter how dull and boring they are on the outside. Inside them they've all got unimaginable, magnificent, wonderful, stupid, amazing worlds... Not just one world. Hundreds of them. Thousands, maybe.

Boredom - Graduating - Meaning - People - Secrets - Stupid - Whole - World

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T. S. Eliot

Poet, Essayist, Publisher, Playwright, Critic

The Rum Turn Tugger is a terrible bore: When you let him in, then he wants to be out; He's always on the wrong side of every door, And as soon as he's at home, then he'd like to get about.

Boredom - Wants

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Albert Camus

Philosopher, Author, Journalist

I realized then that a man who had lived only one day could easily live for a hundred years in prison. He would have enough memories to keep him from being bored

Boredom - Man - Memory - Someday

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Ralph Waldo Emerson

Essayist, Lecturer, Philosopher, Poet

Every hero becomes a bore at last.

Boredom - Heroism - Motivation

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Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Actor, Writer, Author

There are few virtuous women who are not bored with their trade.

Boredom - Trade - Virtue - Woman

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Mata Amritanandamayi

Spiritual leader

Keep the child within alive. A child never tires of hearing the birds sing, never gets bored looking at flowers.

Boredom - Children - Hearing - Nature

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Benjamin Disraeli

Former Prime Minister of the U.K.

I rather like bad wine; one gets so bored with good wine.

Boredom

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H. L. Mencken

Journalist, Cultural Critic

The chief contribution of Protestantism to human thought is its massive proof that God is a bore.

Boredom - Human

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Eckhart Tolle

Spiritual Teacher, Author

Some people are stuck in tedious things, like their jobs, and they are bored. Other people experience one stressful thing after another.

Boredom - Jobs - People

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H. P. Lovecraft

Writer, Novelist, Author

I am only about half alive - a large part of my strength is consumed in sitting up or walking. My nervous system is a shattered wreck, and I am absolutely bored & listless save when I come upon something which peculiarly interests me. However - so many things do interest me, & interest me intensely, in science, history, philosophy, & literature; that I have never actually desired to die, or entertained any suicidal designs, as might be expected of one with so little kinship to the ordinary features of life.

Boredom - Consumer - Death - Design - Expectation - Interest - Literature - Nervousness - Ordinary - Philosophy - Suicide

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J. D. Salinger

Writer

I don't know about bores. Maybe you shouldn't feel too sorry if you see some swell girl getting married to them. They don't hurt anybody most of them, and maybe they're all terrific whistlers or something. Who the hell knows? Not me.

Boredom - Feelings - Hurting - Marriage

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Arthur Schopenhauer

Philosopher

That human life must be some kind of mistake is sufficiently proved by the simple observation that man is a compound of needs which are hard to satisfy; that their satisfaction achieves nothing but a painless condition in which he is only given over to boredom . . .

Achievement - Boredom - Conditioning - Giving - Human - Kindness - Man - Mistake - Observation - Pessimism - Satisfaction - Simple

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Stephen King

Writer

True love, like any other strong and addicting drug, is boring — once the tale of encounter and discovery is told, kisses quickly grow stale and caresses tiresome… except, of course, to those who share the kisses, who give and take the caresses while every sound and color of the world seems to deepen and brighten around them. As with any other strong drug, true first love is really only interesting to those who have become its prisoners. And, as is true of any other strong and addicting drug, true first love is dangerous.

Boredom - Colors - Danger - Drugs - Encounter - Growing - Sharing - Strength

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Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Writer, Poet, Journalist, Aviator

My life is very monotonous," the fox said. "I hunt chickens; men hunt me. All the chickens are just alike, and all the men are just alike. And, in consequence, I am a little bored.

Boredom - Consequence - Man

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Erich Fromm

Actor, Psychologist, Psychologist

This Marxian sentence, repeated to the point of boredom, is misinterpreted. In reality [Karl] Marx was a "religious" man.

Boredom - Man - Reality - Religion

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Soren Kierkegaard

Philosopher, Theologian, Poet, Social Critic

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.

Beginner - Boredom - Greatness - Man - Principle - Proof - Willing

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William Golding

Novelist, Playwright, Poet

Marx, Darwin and Freud are the three most crashing bores of the Western World. Simplistic popularization of their ideas has thrust our world into a mental straitjacket from which we can only escape by the most anarchic violence.

Boredom - Mentality

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Anton Chekhov

Physician, Playwright

People's destinies are so different. Some people drag along, unnoticed and boring—they're all alike, and they're all unhappy. Then there are others, like for instance you—you're one in a million. You're happy—

Boredom

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Agatha Christie

Writer

I'm not often bored,' I assured her. "Life's not long enough for that.

Boredom

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