Boredom is not a thing. It's not a feeling or a condition. It is the absence of feelings, things and conditions.
A. A. Gill
People collect boredom, they hoard it, they wallow in it, hoping that one day it'll be of interest and become an effete ennui. Let me tell you, it doesn't.
I wanted to make good records. But my problem is I've got a low boredom threshold, so I wanted it to look and sound different with each album, which is really tantamount to suicide, cause people lose it, they lose it - they say: 'I like that, and that's not this.'
Adam Ant
Boredom does get you into trouble and we footballers have a lot of time on our hands, and sometimes we fill up that time with stuff that isn't always positive.
Adebayo Akinfenwa
Airline travel is hours of boredom interrupted by moments of stark terror.
Al Boliska
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
Boredom or being sick of what you've done before is a big part of being in a band.
Alex Kapranos
The main thing I got from growing up in a suburb is the boredom you have as a child.
Alia Shawkat
After I dropped out of college at the age of 19, I became a mortgage broker, and when I went back to school I thought about going into real estate law. I probably would have made a lot more money and died of boredom by now.
Alice Dreger
A lot of the things that bore adults don't bore children, and people forget that. In some ways, boredom is a projection of adults because we can't remember what childhood was like.
Alissa Quart
Boredom is usually what spurs either bad decisions or any decision at all.
Amy Seimetz
Without lies humanity would perish of despair and boredom.
Anatole France
Boredom is a very self-conscious emotion by definition. Interest is not. So you can actually be completely absorbed in something and, at certain points in your development, not even realize that you're into it.
Angela Duckworth
It's precisely in those moments when I don't know what to do, boredom drives one to try a host of possibilities to either get somewhere or not get anywhere.
Anish Kapoor
Is boredom anything less than the sense of one's faculties slowly dying?
Arthur Helps
The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom.
Arthur Schopenhauer
Boredom is just the reverse side of fascination: both depend on being outside rather than inside a situation, and one leads to the other.
I've made a career over the last seventeen years of mostly playing men in uniform, especially cops. The one thing for an actor that is death, is if you're bored. The boredom will show in your work.
Benjamin Bratt
The one thing for an actor that is complete death is if you're bored, because that boredom will show in your work.
I think baseball represents something closer to our experience. There's no clock in baseball; it's not over until it's over. It's like life in that there are prolonged periods of boredom and monotony, punctuated by intense moments of excitement and sometimes terror.
Bennett Miller
Boredom is... a vital problem for the moralist, since half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it.
The chief product of an automated society is a widespread and deepening sense of boredom.
I think people are curious at some level, and they want to alter their current state of being. I mean, that could be from curiosity, that could be from stress, that can be from some other sort of ailments or problem that they are experiencing or could just be from boredom, but humans have always attempted to alter their consciousness.
Perhaps the world's second-worst crime is boredom; the first is being a bore.
Although I did admire David Foster Wallace's final unfinished novel about boredom, I'm no DFW, and I want my books to be exciting, not boring.
Boredom is a concept that I don't understand.
Jump out the window if you are the object of passion. Flee it if you feel it. Passion goes, boredom remains.
As soon as you set foot on a yacht you belong to some man, not to yourself, and you die of boredom.
Virtuous people often revenge themselves for the constraints to which they submit by the boredom which they inspire.
The jogging machine makes me go insane with boredom.
I know how to paint... In a way there is a boredom there because a lot of the magic is gone.
When you're a full-time mum, you're constantly in that zone and doing breastfeeding and having a lot of boredom, too!
I wanted to get that sense of peace and even boredom that comes with long familiarity.
There's a rebirth that goes on with us continuously as human beings. I don't understand, personally, how you can be bored. I can understand how you can be depressed, but I just don't understand boredom.
My drive to put myself on the line comes from boredom. From that feeling when you go to bed and think, 'What did I do today?' It doesn't have to be something monumental, just a feeling that you really tried to look at something, or look into something.
When I was a child, I wanted to watch things that made me laugh. It's attacking boredom, as simple as that. I was 19 when I first went to a comedy club - I wanted to do it, so I gave it a try and that was it. I found my office.
He who seeks rest finds boredom. He who seeks work finds rest.
You'll find boredom where there is the absence of a good idea.
Boredom, anger, sadness, or fear are not 'yours,' not personal. They are conditions of the human mind. They come and go. Nothing that comes and goes is you.
Primates feel pure, flat immobility as boredom. But dogs feel it as peace.
I can't keep myself from playing roles. The emotionless decadent, looking for diversion from boredom, is a favorite.
Isn't history ultimately the result of our fear of boredom?
Longevity is something I never gave a second thought to. I guess it's the shadow of growing up in post WWII, but I never believed I would live past 20. Here I am though... a senior citizen... my voice and heart are stronger than ever, but boredom is the greatest enemy so I have to be careful not to slip over the edge.
I love heights. I love speed. I'm on the verge of being a pyromaniac. Maybe my phobia is boredom.
I have no tolerance for boredom. I spend so many hours in the office, and I still love it.
A subject for a great poet would be God's boredom after the seventh day of creation.
I think I do have a sort of terrible propensity for boredom and for being bored, even though I am absolutely of the opinion that one shouldn't be bored and that there is no excuse for it and that it is a personal failing.
The Beatles saved the world from boredom.
People of Wealth and the so called upper class suffer the most from boredom.
Fortunately, our audiences are used to a kind of boredom in the theatre, and if the writer is skillful, he will flatter them into thinking: 'Why, that's us up there, and aren't we - for all our little foibles - pretty nice guys and gals?'
