Boredom Quotes and Sayings


When you’re bored with yourself, marry and be bored with someone else.
David Pryce-Jones

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

Boredom provides a stronger inclination to write than anything.
Vikram Seth

By his very success in inventing labor-saving devices modern man has manufactured an abyss of boredom that only the privileged classes in earlier civilisations have ever fathomed.
Lewis Mumford

Somebody’s boring me, I think it’s me.
Dylan Thomas

I wanted to be bored to death, as good a way to go as any.
Peter De Vries

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

Hell is more like boredom, or not having enough to do, and too much time to contemplate one’s deficiencies.
Dorothy Gilman

Is not life a hundred times too short for us to bore ourselves?
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

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

I’m so bored with it all.
Winston Churchill

Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon.
Susan Ertz

Nothing happens, nobody comes, nobody goes, it’s awful!
Samuel Beckett

Symmetry is tedious, and tedium is the very basis of mourning. Despair yawns.
Victor Hugo

If you knew what you were doing, you’d probably be bored.
Fresco’s Law

You’ll find boredom where there is the absence of a good idea.
Earl Nightingale

Without lies humanity would perish of despair and boredom.
Anatole France

The effect of boredom on a large scale in history is underestimated. It is a main cause of revolutions, and would soon bring to an end all the static Utopias and the farmyard civilization of the Fabians.
Dean Inge

You ought not to be ashamed of being bored. What you ought to be ashamed of is being boring.
Lord Hailsham

Sir, you are like a pin, but without either its head or its point.
Douglas William Jerrold

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

A bore is a person who opens his mouth and puts his feats in it.
Henry Ford

Society is now one polish’d horde,
Form’d of two mighty tribes, the Bores and Bored.
Lord Byron

The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity.
Dorothy Parker

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

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

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

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

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

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    I am not bored, I’m full of boredom
    Mr. Dressup

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    Life is too short for us to be bored. Enjoy it because you only live once.
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