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
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. – Hedy Lamarr
I fell asleep reading a dull book and dreamed I kept on reading, so I awoke from sheer boredom. – Heinrich Heine
Don’t try to ‘fix’ the child’s boredom – rather, let the child find his or her inner resources. – Julia Cameron
Economics is a subject profoundly conducive to cliche, resonant with boredom. On few topics is an American audience so practiced in turning off its ears and minds. And none can say that the response is ill advised. – John Kenneth Galbraith
The chief product of an automated society is a widespread and deepening sense of boredom. – C. Northcote Parkinson
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. – Jack Kevorkian
Jump out the window if you are the object of passion. Flee it if you feel it. Passion goes, boredom remains. – Coco Chanel
The one thing for an actor that is complete death is if you’re bored, because that boredom will show in your work. – Benjamin Bratt
Your true traveller 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
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 vital problem for the moralist, since half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it. – Bertrand Russell
It’s precisely in those moments when I don’t know what to do, boredom drives one to try a host of possibilities to either get somewhere or not get anywhere. – Anish Kapoor
