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
A scholar knows no boredom.
Jean Paul Friedrich Richter
No society ever seems to have succumbed to boredom. Man has developed an obvious capacity for surviving the pompous reiteration of the commonplace.
John Kenneth Galbraith
Morality is a venereal disease. Its primary stage is called virtue; its secondary stage, boredom; its tertiary stage, syphilis.
Karl Kraus
Boredom: the desire for desires.
Leo Tolstoy
Highly educated bores are by far the worst; they know so much, in such fiendish detail, to be boring about.
Louis Kronenberger
In love there are no vacations No such thing. Love has to be lived fully with its boredom and all that.
Marguerite Duras
When I write love songs, people think they’re really soppy — but I see love as a consolation for the boredom of life.
Martin Gore
In order to live free and happily you must sacrifice boredom. It is not always an easy sacrifice.
Richard Bach
The presidency has many problems, but boredom is the least of them.
Richard Milhous Nixon
Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time serenity, that nothing is.
Thomas Szasz
Work saves us from three great evils boredom, vice and need.
Voltaire
My boredom threshold is low at the best of times but I have spent more time being slowly and excruciatingly bored by children than any other section of the human race.
William H. Borah
In the U.S. you have to be a deviant or exist in extreme boredom…Make no mistake all intellectuals are deviants in the U.S.
William Seward Burroughs