(147 quotes found)
“This is the curse of our age, that even the strangest aberrations are no cure for boredom.”
Stendhal
“Is boredom anything less than the sense of one's faculties slowly dying?”
Arthur Helps
“The two foes of human happiness are pain and boredom”
Arthur Schopenhauer
“Boredom, after all, is a form of criticism”
Wendell Phillips
“The word aerobics comes from two Greek words: aero, meaning "ability to," and bics, meaning "withstand tremendous boredom”
Dave Barry
“The chief product of an automated society is a widespread and deepening sense of boredom.”
C. Northcote Parkinson
“It is only a step from boredom to disillusionment, which leads naturally to self-pity, which in turn ends in chaos.”
Manly Hall
“The most terrible thing about materialism, even more terrible than its proneness to violence, is its boredom, from which sex, alcohol, drugs, all devices for putting out the accusing light of reason and suppressing the unrealizable aspirations of love, offer a prospect of deliverance.”
Malcolm Muggeridge
“Mayhem achieved, boredom relieved”
Bruce McCall
“Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time; serenity, that nothing is.”
Thomas S. Szasz
