Entered into this day, an agreement between politicians such that they covenant with each other a common ancestry of boredom. Per Kierkegaard, God was bored and created Adam. They were bored together, and next came Eve, Cain, Able, Politics and the rest of the neigh-bore-hood?
- A subject for a great poet would be God's boredom after the seventh day of creation.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
- 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, The Conquest of Happiness
- Boredom is just the reverse side of fascination: both depend on being outside rather than inside a situation, and one leads to the other.
- Arthur Schopenhauer
- Boredom: the desire for desires.
- Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina
- 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
- Boredom is not an end product, is comparatively rather an early stage in life and art. You've got to go by or past or through boredom, as through a filter, before the clear product emerges.
- F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Crack-Up
- Boredom is the legitimate kingdom of the philanthropic.
- Virginia Woolf
- Boredom is the root of all evil - the despairing refusal to be oneself.
- Søren Kierkegaard
- Isn't history ultimately the result of our fear of boredom?
- Emile Cioran, History and Utopia
- It is the unknown that excites the ardor of scholars, who, in the known alone, would shrivel up with boredom.
- Wallace Stevens
- Happiness is the art of avoiding boredom.
- William Rafti
- Man is the only animal that can be bored.
- Erich Fromm, The Sane Society (1955)
- Perhaps the world's second worst crime is boredom. The first is being a bore.
- Sir Cecil Walter Hardy Beaton
- The chief product of an automated society is a widespread and deepening sense of boredom.
- Cyril Parkinson
- The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity.
- Ellen Parr
- The life of the creative man is led, directed and controlled by boredom. Avoiding boredom is one of our most important purposes.
- Susan Sontag
- The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom.
- Arthur Schopenhauer
- We often forgive those who bore us, but never those whom we bore.
- François Duc de La Rochefoucauld, Maxims
- Your true traveller finds boredom agreeable rather 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
