Boredom Quotes
Perhaps the world's second worst crime is boredom. The first is being a bore.
- Sir Cecil Walter Hardy Beaton
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
Is boredom anything less than the sense of one's faculties slowly dying?
- John Berger
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.
- F. Scott Fitzgerald
Everyone is a bore to someone. That is unimportant. The thing to avoid is being a bore to oneself.
- Gerald Brenan
Cherish forever what makes you unique, ‘cuz you're really a yawn if it goes.
- Bette Midler
No society ever seems to have succumbed to boredom. Man has developed an obvious capacity for surviving the pompous reiteration of the commonplace.
- John Kenneth Galbraith
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.
- Lou Holtz
A bore is a man who, when you ask him how he is, tells you.
- Bert Leston Taylor
The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity.
- Ellen Parr
They sicken of the calm, who knew the storm.
- Dorothy Parker
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
