Boredom - Boring Quotes

Boredom lies only with the traveler’s limited perception and his failure to explore deeply enough.

Highly educated bores are by far the worst; they know so much, in such fiendish detail, to be boring about.

The speaker bores you, gentlemen? He’s also boring me. But praise him when he’s thru – He comes to us for free!

Perhaps the world’s second worst crime is boredom. The first is being a bore.

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.

Is boredom anything less than the sense of one’s faculties slowly dying?

A bore is someone who persists in holding his own views after we have enlightened him with ours.

And moreover my mother told me as a boy (repeatingly), “Ever to confess you’re bored means you have no Inner Resources.” I conclude now I have no inner resources, because I am heavy bored.

No society ever seems to have succumbed to boredom. Man has developed an obvious capacity for surviving the pompous reiteration of the commonplace.

Bore, n.: A person who talks when you wish him to listen.