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The man who suspects his own tediousness is yet to be born.
-Thomas Bailey Aldrich
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The penalty for success is to be bored by people who used to snub you.
-Nancy Astor
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In order to live free and happily you must sacrifice boredom. It is not always an easy sacrifice.
-Richard Bach
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I have a fear of being boring.
-Christian Bale
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Everything considered, work is less boring than amusing oneself.
-Charles Baudelaire
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Boredom is like a pitiless zooming in on the epidermis of time. Every instant is dilated and magnified like the pores of the face.
-Jean Baudrillard
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Perhaps the world's second worst crime is boredom. The first is being a bore.
-Sir Cecil Walter Hardy Beaton
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Boredom is the dream bird that hatches the egg of experience. A rustling in the leaves drives him away.
-Walter Benjamin
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Is boredom anything less than the sense of one's faculties slowly dying?
-John Berger
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The world is eaten up by boredom. You can't see it all at once. It is like dust. You go about and never notice, you breathe it in, you eat and drink it. It is sifted so fine, it doesn't even grit on your teeth. But stand still for an instant and there it is, coating your face and hands. To shake off this drizzle of ashes you must be for ever on the go. And so people are always on the go.
-Georges Bernanos
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Life, friends, is boring. We must not say so. After all, the sky flashes, the great sea yearns, we ourselves flash and yearn, and moreover my mother told me as a boy (repeatedly) Ever to confess you're bored means you have no inner Resources. I conclude now I have no inner resources, because I am heavy bored.
-John Berryman
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Bore -- a person who talks when you wish him to listen.
-Ambrose Bierce
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Never chain your dogs together with sausages. One must accustom one's self to be bored.
-Lady Bloomfield
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Everyone is a bore to someone. That is unimportant. The things to avoid is being a bore to oneself.
-Gerald Brenan
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One thing I can say about George... he may not be able to keep a job, but he's not boring.
-Barbara Bush
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What's wrong with being a boring kind of guy?
-George Bush
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Men are seldom more commonplace than on supreme occasions.
-Samuel Butler
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The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore.
-Samuel Butler
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Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours.
-Dale Carnegie
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Living, just by itself --what a dirge that is! Life is a classroom and Boredom's the usher, there all the time to spy on you...
-Louis-Ferdinand Celine
The narrator (Ferdinand Bardamu), in Journey to the End of the Night (tr. 1934; 1966 ed., p. 307), 1932
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There is no such thing on earth as an uninteresting subject; the only thing that can exist is an uninterested person. Nothing is more keenly required than a defence of bores. When Byron divided humanity into the bores and bored, he omitted to notice that the higher qualities exist entirely in the bores, the lower qualities in the bored, among whom he counted himself. The bore, by his starry enthusiasm, his solemn happiness, may, in some sense, have proved himself poetical. The bored has certainly proved himself prosaic.
-G. K. Chesterton
Heretics
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A yawn is a silent shout.
-G. K. Chesterton
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A mental disease has swept the planet: banalization presented with the alternative of love or a garbage disposal unit, young people of all countries have chosen the garbage disposal unit.
-Ivan Chtcheglov
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People who have nothing to do are quickly tired of their own company.
-Jeremy Collier
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Boredom is always counter-revolutionary. Always.
-Guy Debord
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Books about Boredom
