Boredom - Boring Quotes

Only one person in a thousand is a bore and he is interesting because he is one person in a thousand.

We often forgive those who bore us, but never those whom we bore.

Plato was a bore.

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.

Monotony is the law of nature. Look at the monotonous manner in which the sun rises… The monotony of necessary occupations is exhilarating and life-giving.

I feel monotony and death to be almost the same.

I’ve done the most awful rubbish in order to have somewhere to go in the morning.

Society is no one polished horde, Formed of two mighty tribes, the Bores and the Bored.