"In order to live free and happily you must sacrifice boredom. It is not always an easy sacrifice."
-Richard Bach

Boredom is like a pitiless zooming in on the epidermis of time. Every instant is dilated and magnified like the pores of the face.
-Jean Baudrillard

Perhaps the world's second worst crime is boredom. The first is being a bore.
-Sir Cecil Walter Hardy Beaton

Is boredom anything less than the sense of one's faculties slowly dying?
-John Berger

Is boredom anything less than the sense of one's faculties slowly dying?
-John Berger

Living, just by itself --what a dirge that is! Life is a classroom and Boredom's the usher, there all the time to spy on you...
-Louis-Ferdinand Celine, The narrator (Ferdinand Bardamu), in Journey to the End of the Night (tr. 1934; 1966 ed., p. 307), 1932

Boredom is not an end product, 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, The Crack-Up

No society ever seems to have succumbed to boredom. Man has developed an obvious capacity for surviving the pompous reiteration of the commonplace.
-John Kenneth Galbraith

America is said to have the highest per capita boredom of any spot on earth! We know that because we have the greatest number of artificial amusements of any country.
People have become so empty that they can't even entertain themselves. They have to pay other people to amuse them, to make them laugh, to try to make them feel warm and happy and comfortable for a few minutes, to try to lose that awful, frightening, hollow feeling--that terrible, dreaded feeling of being lost and alone.
-Billy Graham

I fell asleep reading a dull book and dreamed I kept on reading, so I awoke from sheer boredom.
-Heinrich Heine 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

Highly educated bores are by far the worst; they know so much, in such fiendish detail, to be boring about.
-Louis Kronenberger

Only the most acute and active animals are capable of boredom. -- A theme for a great poet would be God's boredom on the seventh day of creation.
-Friedrich Nietzsche

They sicken of the calm, who knew the storm.
-Dorothy Parker

It is the sin that believes in nothing,
cares for nothing,
seeks to know nothing,
interferes with nothing,
enjoys nothing,
hates nothing,
finds purpose in nothing,
lives for nothing,
and remains alive
because there is nothing for which it will die.
-Dorothy L. Sayers, "On Boredom"

Boredom: the desire for desires.
-Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina, 1877