He who seeks rest finds boredom. He who seeks work finds rest.

Airline travel is hours of boredom interrupted by moments of stark terror.

Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time serenity that nothing is.

The chief product of an automated society is a widespread and deepening sense of boredom.

The essence of life is the smile of round female bottoms under the shadow of cosmic boredom.

There's no excuse to be bored. Sad yes. Angry yes. Depressed yes. Crazy yes. But there's no excuse for boredom ever.

Before for me peace could have been synonymous with boredom.

Teens think listening to music helps them concentrate. It doesn't. It relieves them of the boredom that concentration on homework induces.

There's too much down time making movies. That leads to boredom. And that leads to trouble.

I don't believe in an afterlife so I don't have to spend my whole life fearing hell or fearing heaven even more. For whatever the tortures of hell I think the boredom of heaven would be even worse.

The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom.

Idle people are often bored and bored people unless they sleep a lot are cruel. It is not accident that boredom and cruelty are great preoccupations in our time.

I've got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom.

A subject for a great poet would be God's boredom after the seventh day of creation.

It is not the simple statement of facts that ushers in freedom it is the constant repetition of them that has this liberating effect. Tolerance is the result not of enlightenment but of boredom.

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.

Isn't history ultimately the result of our fear of boredom?

I fear the boredom that comes with not learning and not taking chances.

Boredom is... a vital problem for the moralist since half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it.

Boredom is the dream bird that hatches the egg of experience. A rustling in the leaves drives him away.

It is the unknown that excites the ardor of scholars who in the known alone would shrivel up with boredom.

This is the curse of our age even the strangest aberrations are no cure for boredom.