Boredom Quotes

Let us be careful, lest out of pure honesty we eventually become saints and bores! Is not life a hundred times too short for us-to bore ourselves?

A subject for a great poet would be God's boredom after the seventh day of creation.

Even the most beautiful scenery is no longer assured of our love after we have lived in it for three months, and some distant coast attracts our avarice: possessions are generally diminished by possession.

What is the task of higher education? To make a man into a machine. What are the means employed? He is taught how to suffer being bored.

Against boredom even gods struggle in vain.

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.

Life is for living and working at. If you find anything or anybody a bore, the fault is in yourself.

The idea of lying on a beach as my main thing just sounds like the worst. It sounds horrible to me. I would go bonkers. I would have to be on serious drugs. I'd be super-duper bored. I like high intensity.

I'm bored with it all.

Tomorrow never happens. It's all the same fucking day, man.

I think about dying but I don't want to die. Not even close. In fact my problem is the complete opposite. I want to live, I want to escape. I feel trapped and bored and claustrophobic. There's so much to see and so much to do but I somehow still find myself doing nothing at all. I'm still here in this metaphorical bubble of existence and I can't quite figure out what the hell I'm doing or how to get out of it.

If it's planned, it's boring.

I hate going to the gym and doing it the old-fashioned way. I hate anything that's too straightforward, too routine, too familiar. I get bored really, really quickly.

I hope I didn't bore you too much with my life story.

Boredom: the desire for desires.