Only those who want everything done for them are bored.
People of Wealth and the so called upper class suffer the most from boredom.
People who have nothing to do are quickly tired of their own company.
Perhaps the world's second worst crime is boredom. The first is being a bore.
Since boredom advances and boredom is the root of all evil, no wonder, then, that the world goes backwards, that evil spreads. This can be traced back to the very beginning of the world. The gods were bored; therefore they created human beings.
Sir, you have but two topics, yourself and me. I am sick of both.
Somebody's boring me. I think it's me.
Surely a long life must be somewhat tedious, since we are forced to call in so many trifling things to help rid us of our time, which will never return.
The age of chivalry is past. Bores have succeeded to dragons.
The concept of boredom entails an inability to use up present moments in a personally fulfilling way.
The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity.
The devil's name is dullness.
The life of a creator is not the only life nor perhaps the most interesting which a man leads. There is a time for play and a time for work, a time for creation and a time for lying fallow. And there is a time, glorious too in its own way, when one scarcely exists, when one is a complete void. I mean — when boredom seems the very stuff of life.
The life of the creative man is lead, directed and controlled by boredom. Avoiding boredom is one of our most important purposes.
The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore.
The man who suspects his own tediousness is yet to be born.
The most terrible thing about materialism, even more terrible than its proneness to violence, is its boredom, from which sex, alcohol, drugs, all devices for putting out the accusing light of reason and suppressing the unrealizable aspirations of love, offer a prospect of deliverance.
The nice thing about being a celebrity is that, if you bore people, they think it's their fault.
The penalty for success is to be bored by people who used to snub you.
The wise person often shuns society for fear of being bored.
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