Boredom - Boring Quotes

I learned that even after a single day’s experience of the outside world a man could easily live a hundred years in prison. He’d have laid up enough memories never to be bored. (“The Stranger”)

Boredom is rage spread thin.

If the good people have not made the world better, they have surely made it duller.

Boredom: the desire for desires.

A bore is a man who has nothing to say and says it anyway.

He is an old bore. Even the grave yawns for him.

Bore: one who is interesting to a point – the point of departure.

One out of three hundred and twelve Americans is a bore… and a healthy male adult bore consumes each year one and a half times his own weight in other people’s patience.

Dullness has depth.

I sometimes say to myself: “Life is too short to be worth troubling about.” Yet if a bore calls on me, prevents me from going out or attending to my affairs, I lose patience and cannot endure it for half an hour.