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”)

The only way a woman can ever reform her husband is by boring him so completely that he loses all possible interest in life.

Travel is the most private of pleasures. There is no greater bore than the travel bore. We do not in the least want to hear what he has seen in Hong Kong.

The people who are aware of themselves are henceforward independent; and they are never bored, and life is only too short, and they are steeped through and through with a profound yet temperate happiness.

Life swings like a pendulum backward and forward between pain and boredom.

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

People of Wealth and the so called upper class suffer the most from boredom.

We’re bored now. We’re all bored. But has it ever occurred to you, Wally, that in the process which creates this boredom that we see in the world now may very well be a self-perpetuating unconscious form of brainwashing created by a world totalitarian government based on money?

The two foes of human happiness are pain and boredom.

If you can’t stand solitude, perhaps you bore others too.