Inspirational bored quotes will encourage you to think a little deeper than you usually would and broaden your perspective.
Most Famous Bored Quotes
Boredom is the root of all evil, the despairing refusal to be oneself. Soren Kierkegaard
A perfect world is likely to be quite boring.
The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom. Arthur Schopenhauer
Death due to passion is better than due to boredom.
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
Boredom is a subjective feeling.
Boredom: The desire for desires. Leo Tolstoy
Can much happiness become boring?
I’ve got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom. Thomas Carlyle
Life is too short to be wasted by boredom.
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. Heraclitus
Life should be lived with feelings, not with boredom.
Your true traveler finds boredom rather agreeable than painful. It is the symbol of his liberty his excessive freedom. He accepts his boredom, when it comes, not merely philosophically, but almost with pleasure. Aldous Huxley
New challenges keep us from boredom.
Perhaps the world’s second worst crime is boredom. The first is being a bore. Jean Baudrillard
Only an uninterested mind can experience boredom.
She refused to be bored chiefly because she wasn’t boring. Zelda Fitzgerald, The Collected Writings
Marriage can be boring if you are boring yourself.
There are no uninteresting things, only uninterested people. G.K. Chesterton
People’s mental and spiritual affinity has no room for boredom.
Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves? Friedrich Nietzsche
Research is a cure for boredom.
The truth is that everyone is bored, and devotes himself to cultivating habits. Albert Camus, The Plague
Doing things is not boring.
I’m bored” is a useless thing to say. I mean, you live in a great, big, vast world that you’ve seen none percent of. Even the inside of your own mind is endless, it goes on forever, inwardly, do you understand? The fact that you’re alive is amazing, so you don’t get to say I’m bored. Louis C.K.
For an artist, staying away from art is boring.
Boredom is the conviction that you can’t change the shriek of unused capacities. Saul Bellow, The Adventures of Augie March
People with high energy levels need lots of things to do.
Millions long for immortality who don’t know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon. Susan Ertz
Lack of motivation and boredom go hand in hand.
He had been bored, that’s all, bored like most people. Hence he had made himself out of whole cloth a life full of complications and drama. Albert Camus, The Fall
If you’re feeling bored, it’s your own fault
When people are bored, it is primarily with their own selves that they are bored. Eric Hoffer
The negativity in our world is boring us, it is so common.
My despair is less despair than boredom and loneliness. Anthony Swofford, Jarhead
It is so much better to be busy and not bored.
I am convinced that boredom is one of the greatest tortures. If I were to imagine Hell, it would be the place where you were continually bored. Erich Fromm, The Dogma of Christ
Stay away from boring people, or they’ll influence you.
Boredom is the deadliest poison. William F. Buckley, Jr., Milestones
Boredom is a choice in our busy world.
The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity. Ellen Parr
We should all fear boredom and avoid it at all costs.
In order to live free and happily, you must sacrifice boredom. It is not always an easy sacrifice. Richard Bach
Only a person without goals can feel bored with life.
There’s no excuse to be bored. Sad, yes. Angry, yes. Depressed, yes, Crazy, yes. But there’s no excuse for boredom, ever. Viggo Mortensen
Boredom can never be justified.
Unless a man has been taught what to do with success after getting it, the achievement of it must inevitably leave him a prey to boredom. Bertrand Russell
Freedom and happiness come without boredom.
If you’re bored with life you don’t get up every morning with a burning desire to do things you don’t have enough goals. Lou Holtz
Don’t waste your time on uninteresting things.
Cherish forever what makes you unique, ‘cuz you’re really a yawn if it goes. Bette Midler
No one wants a boring life.
There’s no excuse to be bored. Sad, yes. Angry, yes. Depressed, yes. Crazy, yes. But there’s no excuse for boredom, ever. Viggo Mortensen
Feeling bored is the worst experience.
The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity. Dorothy Parker
I would rather die of passion than of boredom. Emile Zola
She refused to be bored chiefly because she wasn’t boring. Zelda Fitzgerald
The truth is that everyone is bored, and devotes himself to cultivating habits.
Albert Camus
I’m bored’ is a useless thing to say. I mean, you live in a great, big, vast world that you’ve seen none percent of. Even the inside of your own mind is endless; it goes on forever, inwardly, do you understand? The fact that you’re alive is amazing, so you don’t get to say ‘I’m bored. Louis C. K.
When you’re bored with yourself, marry and be bored with someone else. Edward VIII
Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours. Dale Carnegie
Boredom is the conviction that you can’t change. The shriek of unused capacities. Saul Bellow
Punctuality is the virtue of the bored. Evelyn Waugh
The life of the creative man is lead, directed and controlled by boredom. Avoiding boredom is one of our most important purposes. Susan Sontag
I’m bored” is a useless thing to say. You live in a great, big, vast world that you’ve seen none percent of. Louis C. K.
Boredom between two people doesn’t come from being together physically. It comes from being apart mentally and spiritually. Richard Bach
Some men just want to watch the world burn. Michael Caine
Human beings make life so interesting. Do you know, that in a universe so full of wonders, they have managed to invent boredom. Terry Pratchett
The truth is that everyone is bored, and devotes himself to cultivating habits. Albert Camus
The concept of boredom entails an inability to use up present moments in a personally fulfilling way. Wayne Dyer
Bored people, unless they sleep a lot, are cruel. Renata Adler
Against boredom the gods themselves fight in vain. Friedrich Nietzsche
The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore. Samuel Butler
Boredom is your window on the properties of time that one tends to ignore to the likely peril of one’s mental equilibrium. It is your window on time’s infinity. Once this window opens, don’t try to shut it; on the contrary, throw it wide open. Joseph Brodsky
Nobody is bored when he is trying to make something that is beautiful or to discover something that is true. William Ralph Inge
Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours. Dale Carnegie
Goodbye. I’m leaving because I’m bored. George Saunders
A bore is a person who opens his mouth and puts his feats in it. Henry Ford
Dear World, I am leaving because I am bored. George Sanders
Patience and boredom are closely related. Boredom, a certain kind of boredom, is really impatience. You don’t like the way things are, they aren’t interesting enough for you, so you decide and boredom is a decision that you are bored. Bertrand Russell
I learned to write fiction the way I learned to read fiction by skipping the parts that bored me. Jonathan Lethem
All God does is watch us and kill us when we get boring. We must never, ever be boring. Chuck Palahniuk , Never get bored quotes
You ought not to be ashamed of being bored. What you ought to be ashamed of is being boring. Lord Hailsham
Boredom is not an end-product, it is comparatively rather an early stage in life and art. You’ve got to go by or past or through boredom, as through a filter before the clear product emerges. F. Scott Fitzgerald
I want to feel something, as a person. I don’t want to be bored. Pina Bausch
I learned to write fiction the way I learned to read fiction by skipping the parts that bored me. Jonathan Lethem
Boredom comes from a boring mind. Metallica
I have never been bored an hour in my life. I get up every morning wondering what new strange glamorous thing is going to happen and it happens at fairly regular intervals. William Allen White
I dreaded having a boring life when I grew up. And I certainly can’t complain about being bored. Ina May Gaskin
Rock became an incredible commercial success, people just became bored with serious music, and it was forgotten. Henry Flynt
Boredom can be a lethal thing on a small island. Christopher Moore
Patience and boredom are closely related. Boredom, a certain kind of boredom, is really impatience. You don’t like the way things are, they aren’t interesting enough for you, so you decide and boredom is a decision-that you are bored. Bertrand Russell
There is something more terrible than a hell of suffering, a hell of boredom. Victor Hugo
I’m not bored; I’m not a guy who has nothing to do. Darrell Royal
There are no uninteresting things, only uninterested people. G.K. Chesterton
There’s a story everywhere. Being bored to death someplace is basically a funny proposition. What you have to watch out for is you don’t write a boring story about a boring place. Tim Cahill
Being bored is an insult to oneself. Jules Renard
If I die prematurely at any rate I shall be saved from being bored to death by my own success. Samuel Butler
I’m terrified of being bored and not learning. Alexa Chung
Sometimes the eye gets so accustomed that if you don’t have a change, you’re bored. It’s the same with fashion, you know. And that, I suppose, is what style is about. Bill Blass
The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity. Dorothy Parker
I’m not bored; I’m not a guy who has nothing to do. Darrell Royal
Boredom and fatigue are great historical forces. Jacques Barzun
Perhaps the world’s second worst crime is boredom. The first is being a bore. Cecil Beaton
Staying busy keeps me away from being bored, which used to be a lot of my problem. Kirk Windstein
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. Soren Kierkegaard
I want to be bored. But I can’t. But I really don’t want to be this thing that I’m having to be instead of being bored. Ali Smith
There are no uninteresting things, only uninterested people. Gilbert K. Chesterton
When people are bored, it is primarily with their own selves that they are bored. Eric Hoffer
Getting bored is not allowed. Kay Thompson
Happiness is nothing but temporary moments here and there and I love those. But I would be bored out of my mind if I were happy all the time. Zoe Saldana
The ear tends to be lazy, craves the familiar and is shocked by the unexpected; the eye, on the other hand, tends to be impatient, craves the novel and is bored by repetition. W. H. Auden
Is it worse to be scared than to be bored, that is the question? Gertrude Stein
Before you get bored of yourself try creativity in your life. Amit Kalantri
Getting bored is not allowed. Kay Thompson , Getting bored quotes
Life is never boring, but some people choose to be bored. Wayne Dyer
Being bored is an insult to oneself. Jules Renard
Boredom is a pleasing antidote for fear. Daphne du Maurier
To confess you’re bored means you have no Inner Resources. John Berryman
Boredom, the desire for desires. Leo Tolstoy
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. Winston Churchill
A bore is a man who, when you ask him how he is, tells you. Bert Leston Taylor
One sometimes says: ‘He killed himself because he was bored with life.’ One ought rather to say: ‘He killed himself because he was bored by lack of life. Victor Hugo
I just get bored really quickly and want to push myself to the next level. Courtney Barnett
We always get bored with those whom we bore. François de La Rochefoucauld
I always get bored with my hair. That’s why I would always change it throughout my career. Janet Jackson
Bliss a second by second joy and gratitude at the gift of being alive, conscious lies on the other side of crushing, crushing boredom. Pay close attention to the most tedious things you can find Tax Returns, Televised Golf and, in waves, a boredom like you’ve never known will wash over you and just about kill you. Ride these out, and it’s like stepping from black and white into color. Like water after days in the desert. Instant bliss in every atom. David Foster Wallace
The penalty for success is to be bored by the people who used to snub you. Nancy Astor
Only boring people are bored. Katherine Neville
A bored Gwenvael is an entire town destroyed accidently. G.A. Aiken
Boredom is your window on the properties of time that one tends to ignore to the likely peril of one’s mental equilibrium. It is your window on time’s infinity. Once this window opens, don’t try to shut it; on the contrary, throw it wide open. Joseph Brodsky
The writer’s curse is that even in solitude, no matter its duration, he never grows lonely or bored. Criss Jami
I’m so bored with it all. Winston Churchill
Only those who want everything done for them are bored. Billy Graham
Life is never boring but some people choose to be bored. The concept of boredom entails an inability to use up present moments in a personally fulfilling way. Boredom is a choice; something you visit upon yourself, and it is another of those self defeating items that you can eliminate from your life. Wayne Dyer
Call me the chairman of the bored room.
Boredom is what you fight. Constant, ever present boredom. So you learn to look forward to small things. Sunlight glimpsed through a cloud, an extra piece of pie or candy, good thread to sew your blouse, a ribbon to wear in your hair. Valerie Wilson Wesley
Do you hear that? It’s the sound of me dying of boredom.
Boredom is nothing but the experience of a paralysis of our productive powers. Erich Fromm
I swear it was Friday like 5 minutes ago.
Boredom is my worst enemy. It’s killed a lot of my friends, but it won’t get me. When I get bored, I risk my life somewhere. Larry Niven
I’m bored in the house and I’m in the house bored.
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