Boredom Quotes


Your true traveller 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



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



You live like this, sheltered, in a delicate world, and you believe you are living. Then you read a book(Lady Chatterley, for instance), or you take a trip, or you talk with Richard, and you discover that you are not living, that you are hibernating. The symptoms of hibernating are easily detectable: first, restlessness. The second symptom(when hibernating becomes dangerous and might degenerate into death): absence of pleasure. That is all. It appears like an innocuous illness. Monotony, boredom, death. Millions live like this(or die like this) without knowing it. They work in offices. They drive a car. They picnic with their families. They raise children. And then some shock treatment takes place, a person, a book, a song, and it awakens them and saves them from death. - Anais Nin



You battle a lot of things - illness, boredom, keeping the guys fresh and academics are a big thing, too. We're used to this to a certain degree, but practices aren't the same. We just want to play. - Tavis MacMillan



Writer's block is the greatest side effect of boredom. - Jason Zebehazy



Work spares us from three evils: boredom, vice, and need. - Voltaire



Work relieves us from three great evils, boredom, vice, and want. - French Proverb



Work keeps at bay three great evils: boredom, vice, and need. - Voltaire



Work banishes those three great evils: boredom, vice and poverty. - Voltaire



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



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