Quotes about Boredom! 100+ Best Boredom Quotes and Sayings

Quotes about Boredom: We all experience stress and boredom almost in our daily lives. However, in some of us, sometimes this boredom and stress becomes unbearable. These boredom quotes and sayings about being bored will helping you in getting you out from you boredom.

Quotes about Boredom

  • “There are no uninteresting things, only uninterested people.” —G.K. Chesterton
  • “Boredom is the fear of self.” —Marie Josephine de Suin
  • “Boredom is the deadliest poison.” —William F. Buckley, Jr., Milestones
  • “The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom.” —Arthur Schopenhauer
  • “My despair is less despair than boredom and loneliness.” —Anthony Swofford, Jarhead
  • “I’ve got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom.” —Thomas Carlyle
  • “The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity.” —Ellen Parr
  • “She refused to be bored chiefly because she wasn’t boring.” —Zelda Fitzgerald, The Collected Writings
  • “Boredom is the root of all evil – the despairing refusal to be oneself.” —Soren Kierkegaard
  • “Perhaps the world’s second worst crime is boredom. The first is being a bore.” —Jean Baudrillard
  • “Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves?” —Friedrich Nietzsche
  • “The truth is that everyone is bored, and devotes himself to cultivating habits.” —Albert Camus, The Plague
  • “When people are bored, it is primarily with their own selves that they are bored.” —Eric Hoffer
  • “Boredom is the conviction that you can’t change…the shriek of unused capacities.” —Saul Bellow, The Adventures of Augie March
  • “Millions long for immortality who don’t know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon.” —Susan Ertz
  • “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
  • “Boredom is just the reverse side of fascination: both depend on being outside rather than inside a situation, and one leads to the other.” —Arthur Schopenhauer
  • “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.” —Heraclitus
  • “Unless a man has been taught what to do with success after getting it, the achievement of it must inevitably leave him a prey to boredom.” —Bertrand Russell
  • “He had been bored, that’s all, bored like most people. Hence he had made himself out of whole cloth a life full of complications and drama.” —Albert Camus, The Fall
  • “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, The Dogma of Christ
  • “Your true traveler finds boredom rather agreeable than painful. It is the symbol of his liberty – his excessive freedom. He accepts his boredom, when it comes, not merely philosophically, but almost with pleasure.” —Aldous Huxley
  • ““I’m bored” is a useless thing to say. I mean, you live in a great, big, vast world that you’ve seen none percent of. Even the inside of your own mind is endless, it goes on forever, inwardly, do you understand? The fact that you’re alive is amazing, so you don’t get to say ‘I’m bored.” —Louis C.K.

Best Quotes about Boredom

  • “Boredom: the desire of desire.” —Leo Tolstoy
  • “The cure for boredom is curiosity.” —Dorothy Parker
  • “It’s better to be absolutely ridiculous than be absolutely boring.” —Marilyn Monroe
  • “Boredom is simply the absence of an interesting perspective.” —Brandon A. Trean
  • “I would rather die of passion than of boredom.” —Vincent Van Gogh
  • “Isn’t history ultimately the result of our fear of boredom?” —Emile M. Cioran
  • “He who seeks rest finds boredom. He who seeks work finds rest.” —Dylan Thomas
  • “In order to live free and happily, you must sacrifice boredom. It is not always an easy sacrifice.” —Richard Bach
  • “I think it’s necessary to let kids be bored once in a while, that’s how they learn to be creative.” —Kim Raver
  • “Nobody is bored when he is trying to make something that is beautiful or to discover something that is true.” —William Inge

Boredom Quotes and Sayings

  • “Being bored is boring.”
  • “Normal is so boring.”
  • “Remember, perfect is boring.”
  • “Only boring people are bored.”
  • “A life without challenges is boring.”
  • “Boredom comes from a boring mind. —Metallica
  • “Boredom is a pattern, not a reality.”
  • “Being bored is an insult to oneself.”
  • “Boredom hits everyone from time to time.”
  • “Boredom always precedes a period of great creativity.”
  • “The price of being a sheep is boredom.”
  • “A little boredom can be a dangerous thing.”
  • “Being bored is an insult to oneself. —Jules Renard
  • “Boredom and fatigue are great historical forces. —Jacques Barzun
  • “I’m terrified of being bored and not learning. —Alexa Chung
  • “Against boredom the gods themselves fight in vain. —Friedrich Nietzsche
  • “Boredom is a pleasing antidote for fear. —Daphne du Maurier
  • “Boredom is just the reverse side of fascination. —Arthur Schopenhauer
  • “I tried to be good but then I got bored.”
  • “All kinds are good except the kind that bores you. —Voltaire
  • “I would rather die of passion than of boredom. —Émile Zola
  • “A bored Gwenvael is an entire town destroyed accidently. —G.A. Aiken
  • “Facebook is like the fridge. If you’re bored, keep opening it.”
  • “Boredom can be a lethal thing on a small island. —Christopher Moore
  • “Only those who want everything done for them are bored. —Billy Graham
  • “Before you get bored of yourself try creativity in your life. —Amit Kalantri
  • “Life is never boring, but some people choose to be bored. —Wayne Dyer
  • “When you’re bored with yourself, marry and be bored with someone else. —Edward VIII
  • “The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity. —Dorothy Parker
  • “I always think boredom is to some extent the fault of the bored. —Kate Ross
  • “I want to feel something, as a person. I don’t want to be bored. —Pina Bausch
  • “I abhor the idea of a perfect world. It would bore me to tears. —Shelby Foote
  • “Perhaps the world’s second worst crime is boredom. The first is being a bore. —Cecil Beaton
  • “I just get bored really quickly and want to push myself to the next level. —Courtney Barnett
  • “There is something more terrible than a hell of suffering – a hell of boredom. —Victor Hugo
  • “A bore is a person who opens his mouth and puts his feats in it. —Henry Ford
  • “The penalty for success is to be bored by the people who used to snub you. —Nancy Astor
  • “A bore is a man who, when you ask him how he is, tells you. —Bert Leston Taylor
  • “Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart.”
  • “I always get bored with my hair. That’s why I would always change it throughout my career. —Janet Jackson
  • “Staying busy keeps me away from being bored, which used to be a lot of my problem. —Kirk Windstein
  • “The concept of boredom entails an inability to use up present moments in a personally fulfilling way. —Wayne Dyer
  • “Boredom between two people doesn’t come from being together physically. It comes from being apart mentally and spiritually. —Richard Bach
  • “You don’t burn out from going too fast. You burn out from going too slow and getting bored. —Cliff Burton
  • “The writer’s curse is that even in solitude, no matter its duration, he never grows lonely or bored. —Criss Jami
  • “I learned to write fiction the way I learned to read fiction – by skipping the parts that bored me.—Jonathan Lethem
  • “I dreaded having a boring life when I grew up. And I certainly can’t complain about being bored. —Ina May Gaskin
  • “You ought not to be ashamed of being bored. What you ought to be ashamed of is being boring. —Lord Hailsham
  • “Boredom is the reverse side of fascination: both depend on being outside of a situation, and one leads to the other.”
  • “The life of the creative man is lead, directed and controlled by boredom. Avoiding boredom is one of our most important purposes. —Susan Sontag
  • “Human beings make life so interesting. Do you know, that in a universe so full of wonders, they have managed to invent boredom. —Terry Pratchett
  • “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
  • “I want to be bored. But I can’t. But I really don’t want to be this thing that I’m having to be instead of being bored. —Ali Smith
  • “You get ideas from daydreaming. You get ideas from being bored. You get ideas all the time. The only difference between writers and other people is we notice when we’re doing it. —Neil Gaiman
  • “The ear tends to be lazy, craves the familiar and is shocked by the unexpected; the eye, on the other hand, tends to be impatient, craves the novel and is bored by repetition. —W. H. Auden
  • “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
  • “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. —Dale Carnegie
  • “Patience and boredom are closely related. Boredom, a certain kind of boredom, is really impatience. You don’t like the way things are, they aren’t interesting enough for you, so you decide — and boredom is a decision — that you are bored. —Bertrand Russell
  • “Boredom is your window on the properties of time that one tends to ignore to the likely peril of one’s mental equilibrium. It is your window on time’s infinity. Once this window opens, don’t try to shut it; on the contrary, throw it wide open. —Joseph Brodsky