Boredom Quotes

• It seems that boredom is one of the greatest discoveries of our time. If so, there's no question but that he must be considered a pioneer.

  

  Luchino Visconti
  • Time
  • Funny
  • Question

• I know when I'm working I seldom get into trouble. My educated guess is that boredom has caused most of the problems with Hollywood celebrities.

  

  Hedy Lamarr
  • Problem
  • Trouble
  • Educated

• I am aware that my musical style is not necessarily to the taste of all of you. I've got a heightened 'boredom factor' if music gets too redundant.

  

  Wendy Carlos
  • Music
  • Factor
  • Redundant

• Boredom is just the reverse side of fascination.

  

  Arthur Schopenhauer
  • Boredom
  • Reverse
  • Fascination

• Work is the law of life, and to reject it as boredom is to submit to it as torment.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Boredom
  • Torment
  • Law Of Life

• One receives as reward for much ennui, despondency, boredom -such as a solitude without friends, books, duties, passions must bring with it -those quarter-hours of profoundest contemplation within oneself and nature. He who completely entrenches himself against boredom also entrenches himself against himself: he will never get to drink the strongest refreshing draught from his own innermost fountain.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Friends
  • Refreshing
  • Receives

• The amount of satisfaction you get from life depends largely on your own ingenuity, self-sufficiency, and resourcefulness. People who wait around for life to supply their satisfaction usually find boredom instead.

  

  William C. Menninger
  • People
  • Waiting
  • inspirational

• Profound boredom, drifting here and there in the abysses of our existence like a muffling fog, removes all things and men and oneself along with it into a remarkable indifference. This boredom reveals being as a whole.

  

  Martin Heidegger
  • Existence
  • Boredom
  • Fog

• Nature is interested in only two things--to survive and to reproduce one like itself. Anything you superimpose on that, all the cultural input, is responsible for the boredom of man.

  

  U.G. Krishnamurti
  • Men
  • Nature
  • Two

• ... except in the eyes of a few fanatics (untrustworthy as all lovers) an unmitigated expanse of water is dull even when blue: not in a small boat, where you are part of the winds and currents and tides and are allowed to hold the tiller now and then; but from those decks which the shipping companies with subconscious insight try to make as suburban as possible so that the impact of the monster outside may be lessened, and where the unrecognized boredom is so deep that a wispy smear of smoke on the horizon will queue up a crowd as if for a Valkyrie passing.

  

  Freya Stark
  • Up
  • Trying
  • May

• If you're not part of the freaks, you're part of the boredom.

  

  Perry Farrell Jane's Addiction
  • You
  • Part
  • Freaks

• Many people, especially women, never experience boredom because they have never learned to work properly.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Experience
  • Boredom
  • Many People

• Over-excitement and boredom are states of mind which I equally shun.

  

  E. V. Knox
  • Mind
  • Excitement
  • Boredom

• 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 dare say people will be thankful for the gold pins then.

  

  Fyodor Dostoevsky
  • People
  • Boredom
  • Gold Pins

• 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
  • Boredom
  • Leads
  • Fascination

• Ennui is the disease of hearts without feeling, and of minds without resources.

  

  Madame Roland
  • Heart
  • Feeling
  • Feelings

• Deep attention, the cognitive style traditionally associated with the humanities, is characterized by concentrating on a single object for long periods (say, a novel by Dickens), ignoring outside stimuli while so engaged, preferring a single information stream, and having a high tolerance for long focus times. Hyper attention is characterized by switching focus rapidly among different tasks, preferring multiple information streams, seeking a high level of stimulation, and having a low tolerance for boredom.

  

  N. Katherine Hayles
  • Long
  • Focus
  • Style

• Be politically correct, but please don't bother other people with conversation about being politically correct, because that's the end of everything. You want to create boredom? Be politically correct in your conversation.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
  • People
  • Conversation
  • Ends

• Only the most acute and active animals are capable of boredom.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Animals
  • Boredom
  • Acute

• Who wants a world in which the guarantee that we shall not die of starvation entails the risk of dying of boredom?

  

  Raoul Vaneigem
  • Dying
  • Guarantees
  • Starvation

• Boredom is an evil that is not to be estimated lightly. It can come in the end to real despair. The public authority takes precautions against it everywhere, as against other universal calamities.

  

  Arthur Schopenhauer
  • Authority
  • Despair
  • Boredom

• Boredom is the self being stuffed with itself.

  

  Walker Percy
  • Boredom
  • Stuffed

• The problem in public life is learning to overcome terror; the problem in married life is learning to overcome boredom.

  

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez
  • Life
  • Learning
  • Married

• Boredom flourishes too, when you feel safe. It's a symptom of security.

  

  Eugene Ionesco
  • Security
  • Safe
  • Boredom

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