Boredom - Boring Quotes

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.

If something is boring after two minutes, try it for four. If still boring, then eight. Then sixteen. Then thirty-two. Eventually one discovers that it is not boring at all.

Living, just by itself – what a dirge that is! Life is a classroom and Boredom’s the usher, there all the time to spy on you.

The secret of boring people lies in telling them everything.

Broadly speaking, human beings may be divided into three classes: those who are billed to death, those who are worried to death and those who are bored to death.