Boredom Quotes

"Every hero becomes a bore at last."
-Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Someone's boring me. I think it's me."
-Dylan Thomas

"Strange new problems are being reported in the growing generations of children whose mothers were always there, driving them around, helping them with their homework - an inability to endure pain or discipline or pursue any self-sustained goal of any sort, a devastating boredom with life."
-Betty Friedan

"A healthy male adult bore consumes each year one and a half times his own weight in other people's patience."
-John Updike

"Miss Searle had always considered boredom an intellectual defeat."
-Mary Renault

"He who seeks rest finds boredom. He who seeks work finds rest."
-Dylan Thomas

"Is boredom anything less than the sense of one's faculties slowly dying?"
-Sir Arthur Helps

"The nice thing about being a celebrity is that when you bore people, they think it's their fault."
-Henry Kissinger

"What's wrong with being a boring kind of guy?"
-Gerald Brenan

"Bore, n.: A person who talks when you wish him to listen."
-Ambrose Bierce

"There's no excuse to be bored. Sad, yes. Angry, yes. Depressed, yes. Crazy, yes. But there's no excuse for boredom, ever."
-Viggo Mortensen

"The penalty for success is to be bored by the people who used to snub you."
-Nancy Astor

"Good-bye. I am leaving because I am bored."
-George Saunders

"Nobody is bored when he is trying to make something that is beautiful or to discover something that is true."
-W. R. Inge

"Every improvement in communication makes the bore more terrible."
-Frank Moore Colby

"A bore is a man who, when you ask him how he is, tells you."
-Bert Leston Taylor

"A bore is a man who deprives you of solitude without providing you with company."
-Gian Vincenzo Gravina

"The capacity of human beings to bore one another seems to be vastly greater than that of any other animal."
-H. L. Mencken

"Discussing how old you are is the temple of boredom."
-Ruth Gordon

"Sooner barbarity than boredom."
-Theophile Gautier

"It's long hours of boredom, punctuated by moments of, 'Wow! What did we find?!"
-Steve Simpson

"Boredom, after all, is a form of criticism. "
-William Phillips

"Boredom is the only downside."
-Simon Wilson

"One should only see a psychiatrist out of boredom."
-Muriel Spark

"Boredom is an emptiness filled with insistence."
-Leo Stein

"It keeps the boredom away."
-Leon Deemer

"Boredom is a big factor. When it's just a job, it's time to leave."
-Dory Hollander

"How some of the writers I come across get through their books without dying of boredom is beyond me."
-William Gaddis