(147 quotes found)
“"I am bored" generally means "I am boring".”
Dennis Prager
“Since boredom advances and boredom is the root of all evil, no wonder, then, that the world goes backwards, that evil spreads. This can be traced back to the very beginning of the world. The gods were bored; therefore they created human beings.”
Soren Kierkegaard
“He who seeks rest finds boredom. He who seeks work finds rest.”
Dylan Thomas
“Without lies humanity would perish of despair and boredom”
Anatole France
“Jump out the window if you are the object of passion. Flee it if you feel it. Passion goes, boredom remains.”
Coco Chanel
“Unless a man has been taught what to do with success after getting it, the achievement of it must inevitably leave him a prey to boredom.”
Bertrand Russell
“One must chose in life between boredom and suffering”
Madame de Stael
“One should only see a psychiatrist out of boredom.”
Muriel Spark
“I fell asleep reading a dull book and dreamed I kept on reading, so I awoke from sheer boredom.”
Heinrich Heine
“Virtuous people often revenge themselves for the constraints to which they submit by the boredom which they inspire.”
Confucius