(147 quotes found)
“Boredom is an emptiness filled with insistence.”
Leo Stein
“It seems that boredom is one of the greatest discoveries of our time. If so, there's no question but that he must be considered a pioneer.”
Luchino Visconti
“Against boredom the gods themselves fight in vain.”
Friedrich Nietzsche
“Boredom is the dream bird that hatches the egg of experience. A rustling in the leaves drives him away.”
Walter Benjamin
“Repose is a good thing, but boredom is its brother”
Voltaire
“People of Wealth and the so called upper class suffer the most from boredom.”
George Sanders
“Work keeps at bay three great evils: boredom, vice, and need”
“No place is boring, if you've had a good night's sleep and have a pocket full of unexposed film.”
Robert Adams
“Discussing how old you are is the temple of boredom.”
Ruth Gordon
“Economics is a subject profoundly conducive to cliche, resonant with boredom. On few topics is an American audience so practiced in turning off its ears and minds. And none can say that the response is ill advised.”
John Kenneth Galbraith
