Boredom is a very unpleasant feeling and some people even perceive it as physically painful. Dullness makes you feel frustrated with life and yourself. Why?
It was not daydreaming but attentiveness that has helped mankind survive and evolve into the intelligent and productive species he is today!
Boredom can be a lethal thing on a small island.
Christopher Moore
In the animal kingdom and indeed in business, lack of enthusiasm can make the difference between survival and extinction. Absentmindedness is deadly! Dreariness makes you suffer and feel useless.
This collection contains 40 of the best wise sayings and quotes on boredom, arranged by birth year of the author.
Enjoy and hopefully you won’t feel bored!
People who have nothing to do
are quickly tired of their own company.
Jeremy Collier
non-juror bishop and theologian)
Boredom is a sickness
the cure for which is work;
pleasure is only a palliative.
Pierre-Marc-Gaston de Lévis
French politician, aphorist and député
to the National Constituent Assembly)
One must choose in life
between boredom and suffering.
Anne Louise Germaine de Staël-Holstein,
commonly known as Madame de Staël
The two enemies of human happiness are
pain and boredom.
Arthur Schopenhauer
his work The World as Will and Representation)
Boredom is just the reverse side of fascination:
both depend on being outside
rather than inside a situation,
and one leads to the other.
Arthur Schopenhauer
I’ve got a great ambition
to die of exhaustion
rather than boredom.
Thomas Carlyle
essayist, historian and teacher)
Boredom is the root of all evil –
the despairing refusal to be oneself.
Søren Aabye Kierkegaard
social critic and religious author who is widely
considered to be the first existentialist philosopher)
Boredom is the fear of self.
Marie Josephine de Suin,
Countess of Beausacq
her pen name of Diane de Beausacq)
