The Beatles saved the world from boredom.

Kumiko and I would visit their home and have dinner with them twice a month with mechanical regularity. This was a truly loathsome experience, situated at the precise midpoint between a meaningless mortification of the...

A utopia cannot, by definition, include boredom, but the ‘utopia’ we are living in is boring.

I am near fourteen and have never yet seen a hanging. My life is barren.

The boring thing about being interesting is that you bore boring people.

Envy of other people shows how they are unhappy. Their continual attention to others behavior shows how they are boring.

When a man plays with your heart it is for one of two reasons: He knows he can or he is undecided.

Going to see plays isn’t what you people should do. Try looking at yourselves a little more often and see what gray lives you all lead. How much of what you say is unnecessary.

The chief product of an automated society is a widespread and deepening sense of boredom.

Just as, at least in one religion, accidia is the first of the cardinal sins, so bordom, and particularly the incredible circumstance of waking up bored, was the only vice Bond utterly condemned.

Boring is the right thought at the wrong time.

He was bored now when Emma suddenly began to sob on his breast; and his heart, like the people who can only stand a certain amount of music, became drowsy through indifference to the vibrations...

Boredom is desire seeking desire.

Katerina Lvovna lived a boring life in the rich house of her father-in-law during the five years of marriage to her unaffectionate husband; but, as often happens, no one paid the slightest attention to this...

Feeling bored is a childish attitude.You wouldn’t feel so if you don’t relyon somebody to change your feeling.

I went on writing reviews for the newspaper, and critical articles crying out for a different approach to culture, as even the most inattentive reader could hardly fail to notice if he scratched the surface...

The truth is that everyone is bored, and devotes himself to cultivating habits.

I don’t get it. Basketball is so supremely boring. I can’t understand the point of watching ten giants running from one end of the field–court–to the other throwing an orange ball through a hoop in...

Boredom is a pleasing antidote for fear

Bliss—a-second-by-second joy and gratitude at the gift of being alive, conscious—lies on the other side of crushing, crushing boredom. Pay close attention to the most tedious thing you can find (Tax Returns, Televised Golf) and,...

What’s the point of it, actually?” He yawns and chucks it aside. Mankind does the same with civilization. Boredom is the condition of a people which no longer believes but all the same is doing...

One would expect boredom to be a great yawning emotion, but it isn’t, of course. It’s a small niggling thing.

I confess I found it somewhat insipid when I last went….it was all so prosy – so bonnety – so whisty and teacuppy – you see, the adjectives for it do not even exist, and...

No. You can’t. And I can’t do anything either, about my life, to change it, make it better, make me feel better about it. Like it better, make it work. But I can stop it....

I think boredom is the beginning of every authentic act. (…) Boredom opens up the space, for new engagements. Without boredom, no creativity. If you are not bored, you just stupidly enjoy the situation in...

She thought of the last couple of years: the boredom, the narrowness of existence, the dearth of anything to look forward to. Yet now, in a single instant, the curtains had been whipped aside, and...

My despair is less despair than boredom and loneliness.

Life wore a man out, wore a man thin.Tomorrow would be a better day.

I don’t believe in an afterlife, so I don’t have to spend my whole life fearing hell, or fearing heaven even more. For whatever the tortures of hell, I think the boredom of heaven would...

And while you and the rest of your kind are battling together—year after year—for this special privilege of being ‘bored to death,’ the ‘real girl’ that you’re asking about, the marvelous girl, the girl with...

Boredom forces you to ring people you haven’t seen for eighteen years and halfway through the conversation you remember why you left it so long. Boredom means you start to read not only mail-order catalogues...

For Heidegger, boredom is a privileged fundamental mood because it leads us directly into the very problem complex of being and time.

Boredom is your soul’s way of telling you to step up and do what you were born to.

You know a man is interesting when you forget to notice how expensive — or cheap — his clothes are.

They’re a redefinition of boredom… the most important thing you need to know about an awards show is where is the nearest smoking opportunity.

Our labour preserves us from three great evils — weariness, vice, and want.

Borkin: Ladies and gentlemen, why are you so glum? Sitting there like a jury after it’s been sworn in! … Let’s think up something. What would you like? Forfeits, tug of war, catch, dancing, fireworks?

Boredom is therefore a vital problem for the moralist, since at least half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it.

Before, for me, peace could have been synonymous with boredom.

He wondered why he wasn’t as in love with her as he was with…Hector had only shared enjoyment with (her)…he shared everything, enjoyment and sorrow…but for some time now they’d shared too much frustration, boredom...

Isn’t ‘not to be bored’ one of the principal goals of life?

If we allow our “high creativity” to remain alive, we will never be bored. We can pray, standing in line at the super market. Or we can be lost in awe at all the people...

I’ve had enough adventures,” said Noxon, “to know that boredom is the closest thing to happiness. Boredom means that there’s nothing wrong. You’re not hungry, you’re not in pain. Nobody’s making any demands on you....

Boredom is for the selfish.

Las personas con un alto nivel de tolerancia al aburrimiento tienen tiempo de sobra para pensar.

It is hard not to see into the future, faced with today’s blind architecture – a thousand times more stupid and more revolting than that of other ages. How bored we shall be inside!

Life is just so interesting and complicated and beautiful. Every day, every interaction is different. There’s so much floating around that I would find it really hard to get bored. I’m interested in creating in...

The stirring incidents of the last few months had spoiled her; the monotony of the last few weeks had bored her; and now she had just rode out in quest of adventures.

Then he looked up, despite all best prior intentions. In four minutes, it would be another hour; a half hour after that was the ten-minute break. Lane Dean imagined himself running around on the break,...

Of course boredom may lead you to anything. It is boredom sets one sticking golden pins into people, but all that would not matter. What is bad (this is my comment again) is that I...