Boredom Quotes

“Boredom” is the virtue that is derived from the verb, Bore, which means the feeling of a certain degree of restlessness when you don’t have anything effective to do. Boredom arises when your mind is idle and is not in an active state. This feeling of uneasiness pops up which makes one go dull and lifeless. Moreover, boredom leads to a mind lose its creativity and originality.

Contrary to the definition of boredom, boredom quotes present completely the other side of the coin. Boredom quotes are the ones which though present the views of the authors regarding Boredom, yet reading them and gathering the life pertaining knowledge from them can be interesting enough to avoid the actual boredom from your life.


A bore is a man who deprives you of solitude without providing you with company.
Gian Vincenzo Gravina

A bore is a man who, when you ask him how he is, tells you.
Bert Leston Taylor

The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity.
Ellen Parr

Every improvement in communication makes the bore more terrible.
Frank Moore Colby

The secret of being a bore is to tell everything.
Voltaire

Cherish forever what makes you unique, ‘cuz you're really a yawn if it goes.
Bette Midler

Every hero becomes a bore at last.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

The penalty for success is to be bored by the people who used to snub you.
Nancy Astor

Good-bye. I am leaving because I am bored.
George Saunders

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

Life is as tedious as a twice-told tale
Vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man.
William Shakespeare

Someone's boring me. I think it's me.
Dylan Thomas

Boredom comes from a boring mind.
Metallica

The life of the creative man is lead, directed and controlled by boredom. Avoiding boredom is one of our most important purposes.
Saul Steinberg

When people are bored, it is primarily with their own selves that they are bored.
Eric Hoffer

What's wrong with being a boring kind of guy?
George Bush

A healthy male adult bore consumes each year one and a half times his own weight in other people's patience.
John Updike

Boredom is just the reverse side of fascination: both depend on being outside rather than inside a situation, and one leads to the other.
Susan Sontag

Probably the difference between man and the monkeys is that the monkeys are merely bored, while man has boredom plus imagination.
Lin Yutang

All kinds are good except the kind that bores you.
Voltaire

Boredom: the desire for desires.
Leo Tolstoy

Perhaps the world's second worst crime is boredom. The first is being a bore.
Sir Cecil Beaton

Bore : A person who talks when you wish him to listen.
Ambrose Bierce

A bore is a man who, when you ask him how he is, tells you.
Bert Leston Taylor

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

Yet it is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top.
Virginia Woolf

The capacity of human beings to bore one another seems to be vastly greater than that of any other animal.
H. L. Mencken

The nice thing about being a celebrity is that when you bore people, they think it's their fault.
Henry Kissinger

She refused to be bored chiefly because she wasn’t boring.
Zelda Fitzgerald

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