Quotes about Boredom

Maybe it's just the accumulated stress and strain from a long season of steady struggle. Or maybe you aren't overwhelmed at all. More like underwhelmed—bored with the sameness and mundaneness of a life you thought would be filled with so much more adventure. The predictability, the pointlessness. Urgh. You so desperately want a change, or at least a little excitement along the way.

I warn you, if you bore me, I shall take my revenge.

The man who suspects his own tediousness is yet to be born.

Now we can understand Schopenhauer when he said that mankind was apparently doomed to vacillate eternally between the two extremes of distress and boredom. In actual fact, boredom is now causing, and certainly bringing to psychiatrists, more problems to solve than distress.

In actual fact, boredom is now causing, and certainly bringing to psychiatrists, more problems to solve than distress.

The existential vacuum manifests itself mainly in a state of boredom.

And I am bored to death with it. Bored to death with this place, bored to death with my life, bored to death with myself.

I know I'm probably digging for fresh fruit in the garbage, and as much as anyone, my attitude is, if stuff's sincere, it's gooey and boring and uninteresting. But it's no way to live.

I can hardly tell you how boring it is to interview almost every politician among the multitudes I have ever interviewed (journalists can't say this, because if people knew how boring politicians were they wouldn't read what we write), how dead the conversation feels, how bald, flat, uninteresting the message is.

The only way a woman can ever reform a man is by boring him so completely that he loses all possible interest in life.

The only way a woman can ever reform a man is by boring him so completely that he loses all possible interest in life.

Real trouble doesnt begin in a society until boredom has become its most general feature. Boredom will drive even quietminded people down paths they'd never imagined.