Quotes About Boredom

The dead are likely dull fellows, full of tedious complaints—the ground's too cold, my gravestone should be larger, why does he get more worms than I do …

Dear World, I am leaving you because I am bored. I feel I have lived long enough. I am leaving you with your worries in this sweet cesspool. Good luck.

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

Dear World, I am leaving because I am bored. I feel I have lived long enough. I am leaving you with your worries in this sweet cesspool. Good luck.

Dear World, I am leaving because I am bored. I feel I have lived long enough. I am leaving you with your worries in this sweet cesspool.

The world is eaten up by boredom.... You can't see it all at once. It is like dust. You go about and never notice, you breathe it in, you eat and drink it. It is sifted so fine, it doesn't even grit on your teeth. But stand still for an instant and there it is, coating your face and hands. To shake off this drizzle of ashes you must be for ever on the go. And so people are always "on the go."

My parish is bored stiff; no other word for it.  Like so many others! We can see them being eaten up by boredom, and we can't do anything about it.  Someday perhaps we shall catch it ourselves—become aware of the cancerous growth within us.  You can keep going a long time with that in you.

Well, as I was saying, the world is eaten up by boredom. To perceive this needs a little preliminary thought: you can't see it all at once. It is like dust. You go about and never notice, you breathe it in, you eat and drink it. It is sifted so fine, it doesn't even grit on your teeth. But stand still for an instant and there it is, coating your face and hands. To shake off this drizzle of ashes you must be forever on the go. And so, people are always "on the go.

Everyone is a bore to someone. That is unimportant. The thing to avoid is being a bore to oneself.

One must choose in life between boredom and suffering.

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

Killing time is the chief end of our society.

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.

Somebody's boring me; I think it's me.

Being bored is an insult to oneself.

When people are bored, it is primarily with their own selves that they are bored.

That which is repeated too often becomes insipid and tedious.

And what so tedious as a twice-told tale.

The penalty of success is to be bored by the people who used to snub you.

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

What so tedious as a twice-told tale?

It is always dullest before the yawn.

Everything considered, work is less boring than amusing oneself.

I have tried lately to read Shakespeare, and found it so intolerably dull that it nauseated me.