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 | I’m bored with it all. — Winston Churchill, 1874-1965, British Prime Minister, Nobel 1953 (his last words) 13 likes |
 | We want a new and original world. We reject a world where the certainty of not dying of hunger is exchanged against the risk of perishing of boredom. — Daniel Cohn-Bendit, German politician & activist 10 likes |
 | The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity. — Dorothy Parker, 1893-1967, American writer, poet, satirist, critic 8 likes |
 | I would rather die of passion than of boredom. — Vincent Van Gogh, 1853-1890, Dutch painter 7 likes |
 | I was bored. That's how it began. She bored me, that's how it ended. — Alexandre Dumas, fils, 1824-1895, French writer 6 likes |
 | When I give a lecture, I accept that people look at their watches, but what I do not tolerate is when they look at it and raise it to their ear to find out if it stopped. — Marcel Achard, 1899-1974, French playwright 6 likes |
 | A well-stocked mind is safe from boredom. — Arthur Clarke, 1917-2008, British Sci-Fi writer 6 likes |
 | Bore, n. A person who talks when you wish him to listen. — Ambrose Bierce, 1842–1914, American writer 6 likes |
 | I am never bored; to be bored is an insult to one's self. — Jules Renard, 1864-1910, French writer 6 likes |
 | A subject for a great poet would be God's boredom after the seventh day of creation. — Friedrich Nietzsche, 1844-1900, German philosopher 5 likes |
 | People of Wealth and the so called upper class suffer the most from boredom. — Arthur Schopenhauer, 1788-1860, German philosopher 5 likes |
| The two foes of human happiness are pain and boredom. — Arthur Schopenhauer, 1788-1860, German philosopher 5 likes |
 | The secret of being a bore is to tell everything. — Voltaire, 1694-1778, French philosopher & writer 5 likes |
 | Wagner has beautiful moments but awful quarters of an hour. — Gioachino Rossini, 1792-1868, Italian music composer 4 likes |
 | Ennui is the echo in us of time tearing itself apart. — Emile M. Cioran, 1911-1995, French-Romanian philosopher 4 likes |
| Plato is boring. — Friedrich Nietzsche, 1844-1900, German philosopher 4 likes |
 | There is something more terrible than a hell of suffering: a hell of boredom. — Victor Hugo, 1802-1885, French writer 4 likes |
 | If you're bored with life, if you don't get up every morning with a burning desire to do things, you don't have enough goals. — Lou Holtz, 1937-, American football coach 4 likes |
 | The problem in public life is learning to overcome terror; the problem in married life is learning to overcome boredom. — Gabriel Garcia Marquez, 1927-2014, Colombian writer 4 likes |
 | Veal is a very young beef and, like a very young girlfriend, it's cute but boring and expensive. — P.J. O’ Rourke, 1947-2022, American columnist & writer 4 likes |
 | Everything is complicated; if that were not so, life and poetry and everything else would be a bore. — Wallace Stevens, 1879-1955, American poet 3 likes |
 | After three days men grow weary, of a wench, a guest, and weather rainy. — Benjamin Franklin, 1706-1790, American politician & writer 3 likes |
 | Nothing happens. Nobody comes, nobody goes. It's awful. — Samuel Beckett, 1906-1989, Irish writer, Nobel 1969 3 likes |
 | The biggest bore is the person who is bored by everyone and everything. — Frank Tyger, 1929-2011, American cartoonist 3 likes |
| Utopia was here at last; its novelty had not yet been assailed by the supreme enemy of all Utopias: boredom. — Arthur Clarke, 1917-2008, British Sci-Fi writer 3 likes |
 | Boredom is the conviction that you can't change ... the shriek of unused capacities. — Saul Bellow, 1914-2005, Canadian-American writer, Nobel 1976 3 likes |
| Boredom is a larval anxiety; depression, a dreamy hatred. — Emile M. Cioran, 1911-1995, French-Romanian philosopher 2 likes |
| Against boredom even gods struggle in vain. — Friedrich Nietzsche, 1844-1900, German philosopher 2 likes |
 | I like boring things. — Andy Warhol, 1928-1987, American artist 2 likes |
 | Every hero becomes a bore at last. — Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1803-1884, American philosopher 2 likes |
 | We often forgive those who bore us, but we cannot forgive those whom we bore. — La Rochefoucauld, 1613-1680, French writer 2 likes |
 | I have tried lately to read Shakespeare, and found it so intolerably dull that it nauseated me. — Charles Darwin, 1809-1882, British scientist 2 likes |
 | All right. I'm corny. But I think there's just about a-hundred-and-forty-million people in this country that are just as corny as I am. — Walt Disney, 1901-1966, American businessman & cartoonist 2 likes |
 | There is an effective way to be boring: insist on talking at length about yourself, your problems, your experiences, and your preferences. — Manolis Doukides, Greek writer 2 likes |
 | If everybody likes you, you're pretty dull. — Bette Davis, 1908-1989, American actress 2 likes |
 | The capacity of human beings to bore one another seems to be vastly greater than that of any other animal. — H.L. Mencken, 1880-1956, American columnist & cultural critic 2 likes |
 | Tomsk is a very dull town. To judge from the drunkards whose acquaintance I have made, and from the intellectual people who have come to the hotel to pay their respects to me, the inhabitants are very dull, too — Anton Chekhov, 1860-1904, Russian writer 2 likes |
 | Courtship is to marriage, as a very witty prologue to a very dull play. — William Congreve, 1670-1729, English writer 1 likes |
 | I've got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom. |
 | The effect of boredom on a large scale in history is underestimated. It is a main cause of revolutions. |
 | Adultery, Emma discovered, could be just as boring as marriage. — Gustave Flaubert, 1821-1880, French writer ‐ Madame Bovary |
 | In love, there is always one who suffers and another who is bored. |
 | But the great moment was over — here in Orizaba it was like Galilee between the Crucifixion and the Resurrection — all the enthusiasm had been spent. |
 | Passion goes, Boredom remains. |
 | I don't think pornography is harmful, but it is terribly, terribly boring. |
 | I’ve seen excitement, and I’ve seen boredom. And boredom was best. |
 | Everything that is not passion has a background of boredom. |
 | The nice thing about being a celebrity is that if you bore people they think it's their fault. |
 | Boredom. A desert that crosses me. — Maurice Chapelan, 1906-1992, French author of maxims & journalist |
 | The more boring a child is, the more the parents, when showing off the child, receive adulation for being good parents — because they have a tame child-creature in their house. |
| Without music to decorate it, time is just a bunch of boring production deadlines or dates by which bills must be paid. |
 | Monotony is poverty, whether in speech or in life. |
 | Boredom is the root of all evil – the despairing refusal to be oneself. |
 | Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius and it's better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring. |
 | The life of the creative man is lead, directed and controlled by boredom. Avoiding boredom is one of our most important purposes. — Susan Sontag, 1933-2004, American writer, critic, activist |
 | The only unhappiness is a life of boredom. |
| The boredom of married life inevitable destroys love, when love has preceded marriage. |
 | Boredom between two people doesn't come from being together physically. It comes from being apart mentally and spiritually. |
 | We realize that we have become specialists when the things we talk about with pleasure bore others. |
 | Happiness always hides a disturbing element: the unhappiness of stagnancy. |
 | There is mercy for everyone, except those who are bored with life. |
 | Some people never go crazy. What truly horrible lives they must live. |
Funny Quotes
 | Don't you hate “To Be Continued”s on TV? I mean the whole reason you watch a TV show is because it ends. If I wanted a long, boring story with no point to it, I've got my life. |
