Interesting Boredom Quotes

Death: 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, Hogfather

I really think I write about everyday life. I don't think I'm quite as odd as others say I am. Life is intrinsically, well, boring and dangerous at the same time. At any given moment the floor may open up. Of course, it almost never does; that's what makes it so boring.
― Edward Gorey

There are no uninteresting things, only uninterested people.
― G.K. Chesterton

Did perpetual happiness in the Garden of Eden maybe get so boring that eating the apple was justified?
― Chuck Palahniuk, Survivor

Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves?
― Friedrich Nietzsche

The Beatles saved the world from boredom.
― George Harrison

...I also believe that introversion is my greatest strength. I have such a strong inner life that I’m never bored and only occasionally lonely. No matter what mayhem is happening around me, I know I can always turn inward.
― Susan Cain

Boredom can be a lethal thing on a small island.
― Christopher Moore, Island of the Sequined Love Nun

The truth is that everyone is bored, and devotes himself to cultivating habits.
― Albert Camus, The Plague

Alcohol makes other people less tedious, and food less bland, and can help provide what the Greeks called entheos, or the slight buzz of inspiration when reading or writing. The only worthwhile miracle in the New Testament—the transmutation of water into wine during the wedding at Cana—is a tribute to the persistence of Hellenism in an otherwise austere Judaea. The same applies to the seder at Passover, which is obviously modeled on the Platonic symposium: questions are asked (especially of the young) while wine is circulated. No better form of sodality has ever been devised: at Oxford one was positively expected to take wine during tutorials. The tongue must be untied. It's not a coincidence that Omar Khayyam, rebuking and ridiculing the stone-faced Iranian mullahs of his time, pointed to the value of the grape as a mockery of their joyless and sterile regime. Visiting today's Iran, I was delighted to find that citizens made a point of defying the clerical ban on booze, keeping it in their homes for visitors even if they didn't particularly take to it themselves, and bootlegging it with great brio and ingenuity. These small revolutions affirm the human.
― Christopher Hitchens, Hitch-22: A Memoir

'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.

Boredom is the conviction that you can't change ... the shriek of unused capacities.
― Saul Bellow, The Adventures of Augie March

Only boring people get bored.
― Ruth Burke

Boredom is the fear of self.
― Marie Joséphine de Suin

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 thing 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

I find her anecdotes more efficacious than sheep-counting, rain on a tin roof, or alanol tablets.... you will find me and Morpheus, off in a corner, necking.
― Dorothy Parker