I can excuse everything but boredom. Boring people don't have to stay that way.
Virtuous people often revenge themselves for the constraints to which they submit by the boredom which they inspire.
A subject for a great poet would be God's boredom after the seventh day of creation.
Boredom is... a vital problem for the moralist, since half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it.
To do the same thing over and over again is not only boredom: it is to be controlled by rather than to control what you do.
Boredom is the root of all evil - the despairing refusal to be oneself.
Boredom is just the reverse side of fascination: both depend on being outside rather than inside a situation, and one leads to the other.
The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom.
I know when I'm working I seldom get into trouble. My educated guess is that boredom has caused most of the problems with Hollywood celebrities.
Boredom is the legitimate kingdom of the philanthropic.
The presidency has many problems, but boredom is the least of them.
Something opens our wings. Something makes boredom and hurt disappear. Someone fills the cup in front of us: We taste only sacredness.
You'll find boredom where there is the absence of a good idea.
Without lies humanity would perish of despair and boredom.
I've got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom.
Even boredom has its crises.
It's the boredom that kills you. You read until you're tired of that. You do crossword puzzles until you're tired of that. This is torture. This is mental torture.
It is only a step from boredom to disillusionment, which leads naturally to self-pity, which in turn ends in chaos.
Kids and adults alike are having their curiosity drained away by boredom in class or the workplace, and by the unremitting background noise of a dumbed-down pop culture.
While one might laugh at the meaningless boredom of people a decade or two ago, the emptiness has for many now moved from the state of boredom to a state of futility and despair, which holds promise of dangers.
