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

"Boredom can be a lethal thing on a small island."
— Christopher Moore

"The Beatles saved the world from boredom."
— George Harrison

"Boredom comes from a boring mind."
— Metallica

"When people are bored, it is primarily with their own selves that they are bored."
— Eric Hoffer

"Is not life a hundred times too short for us to bore ourselves?"
— Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

"Doing anything when you're bored is very very boring. Anyway, doing nothing is the point of being bored. The pleasure of being bored is mooning about and doing nothing. "
— Aidan Chambers (This Is All)

"Only boring people get bored."
— Ruth Burke

"If you get bored with the person you married for love, there's something wrong with you - not with that person."
— Shahrukh Khan

"My despair is less despair than boredom and loneliness."
— Anthony Swofford (Jarhead)

"The life of the creative man is lead, directed and controlled by boredom. Avoiding boredom is one of our most important purposes."
— Saul Steinberg

"And for all the richest and most successful merchants life inevitably became rather dull and niggly, and they began to imagine that this was therefore the fault of the worlds they'd settled on."
— Douglas Adams (The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy)

"Doing nothing is the hardest torture that a person can put himself through. For he is always brought face to face with his own self, which demands that he gives account for the sun which he uselessly squanders, for the springs of energy in his organism, the gold of wisdom in the mines of his brains. The masses work, slog, forget. They drink the alcohol of their sweat. Work is a flight from responsibility and God. Since the mystic beliefs have been banned from Europe, pillars of glory have been erected to rationality in order to put something in place of the cross: the French Revolution named its goddess reason, the Russians named their Moloch work. But the machine called Europe is running idle: it fills stomachs with fake bread, builds artificial houses with iron paper, the products are bad, the pay meager, and at the end of the six holy work days is the unholy Sunday which one sleeps through out of fear of the great boredom which is infecting Europe. Sunday, the day of idleness, is nowadays a punishment for Christianity, the cities collapse into soulless ruins, nature is just a backdrop for dusty sports. Doing nothing out of principle, my dear, is nowadays the most violent form of revolt."
— Iwan Goll

"The truth is that everyone is bored, and devotes himself to cultivating habits."
— Albert Camus (The Plague)

"Nobody is bored when he is trying to make something that is beautiful, or to discover something that is true."
— William Inge

"Isn’t ‘not to be bored’ one of the principal goals of life?"
— Gustave Flaubert (Flaubert in Egypt: A Sensibility on Tour)

"Just as, at least in one religion, accidia is the first of the cardinal sins, so bordom, and particularly the incredible circumstance of waking up bored, was the only vice Bond utterly condemned."
— Ian Fleming (From Russia With Love)

"When hit by boredom, let yourself be crushed by it; submerge, hit bottom. In general, with things unpleasant, the rule is: The sooner you hit bottom, the faster you surface. The idea here is to exact a full look at the worst. The reason boredom deserves such scrutiny is that it represents pure, undiluted time in all its repetitive, redundant, monotonous splendor.

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

"Lying is not a sin, since there has never been a law-maker or philosopher who could determine what truth is. I lie for the fun of it. I lie for the fear of the gravity of life. I lie out of boredom. How can anyone who has more fantasy than the Catholic evening paper get by without lying?"
— Iwan Goll

"I can excuse everything but boredom. Boring people don't have to stay that way. "
— Hedy Lamarr

""Do you realise that people die of boredom in London suburbs? It's the second biggest cause of death amongs the English in general. Sheer boredom...""
— Alexander McCall Smith (Friends, Lovers, Chocolate)

"Any country where I am not bored is a country that teaches me nothing."
— Albert Camus

"Pensive they sit, and roll their languid eyes."
— John Keats

"Everything is boring, boredom is the other epidemic which is making Europe ripe for decline. Boredom is the end product of each and every civilization. It is the arteriosclerosis of the great thinking peoples. The moment always arrives where even God, whether he’s called Zeus, Zebaoth or Zoroaster, has finished creating the universe and asks: “What’s the point of it, actually?” He yawns and chucks it aside. Mankind does the same with civilization. Boredom is the condition of a people which no longer believes but all the same is doing just fine. Boredom is when every clock in the country is predestined to be correct. When the same naive flowers blossom again in the month of March. When every day the deaths of good family fathers are announced in the papers. When a war breaks out in the Balkans. When poems go on about the stars. Boredom is a symptom of aging. Boredom is the diagnosis that talent and virtue are slowly being spent. Boredom is the life-long determination to a form of being which has worn itself out."
— Iwan Goll

"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. Something must happen - and that explains most human commitments. Something must happen, even loveless slavery, even war or death. Hurray then for funerals!"
— Albert Camus (The Fall)

"Die Belohnung für Langeweile sind Sicherheit und Geborgenheit."
— Hanif Kureishi (Der Buddha aus der Vorstadt)

"Nothing is as tedious as the limping days,
When snowdrifts yearly cover all the ways,
And ennui, sour fruit of incurious gloom,
Assumes control of fate’s immortal loom"
— Charles Baudelaire (Paris Spleen)

"Both in their origins and effects, boredom and stuffy air resemble each other. They are usually generated whenever a large number of people gather together in a closed room. "
— Friedrich schlegel

"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 am never bored anywhere: being bored is an insult to oneself. "
— Jules Renard

"Horticulture, in its innumerable manifestations, is a hobby that can go with you anywhere at any time, just like your shadow. No one interested in plants and the living world can ever be bored. "
— Thalassa Cruso (To everything there is a season;: The gardening year with Thalassa Cruso)

"“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 (The Pale King)