Famous Quotes, Quotation and Sayings

Ennui has made more gamblers than avarice, more drunkards than thirst, and perhaps as many suicides as despair. ~ C.C. Colton

Boredom is a sickness the cure for which is work; pleasure is only a palliative. ~ Le Duc de Lévis,

Punctuality is the virtue of the bored. ~ Evelyn Waugh

Boredom is like a pitiless zooming in on the epidermis of time. Every instant is dilated and magnified like the pores of the face. ~ Charlotte Whitton

When I get real bored, I like to drive downtown and get a great parking spot, then sit in my car and count how many people ask me if I’m leaving. ~ -Steven Wright

All man’s troubles come from not knowing how to sit still in one room. ~ Blaise Pascal,

The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity. ~ Dorothy Parker

Grasp your opportunities, no matter how poor your health; nothing is worse for your health than boredom. ~ Mignon McLaughlin,

Boredom is a vital problem for the moralist, since at least half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it. ~ Bertrand Russell,

Boredom is an emptiness filled with insistence. ~ Leo Stein

Boredom flourishes too, when you feel safe. It’s a symptom of security. ~ Eugene Ionesco

The war between being and nothingness is the underlying illness of the twentieth century. Boredom slays more of existence than war. ~ Norman Mailer

I am never bored anywhere: being bored is an insult to oneself. ~ Jules Renard Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time; serenity, that nothing is. ~ Thomas Szasz