The truth is that everyone is bored,
and devotes himself to cultivating habits.
Albert Camus
He who seeks rest finds boredom.
He who seeks work finds rest.
Dylan Marlais Thomas
I can excuse everything but boredom.
Boring people don’t have to stay that way.
Hedy Lamarr
Boredom is the conviction that you can’t change…
the shriek of unused capacities.
Saul Bellow,
The Adventures of Augie March
the Pulitzer Prize, the Nobel Prize for Literature,
and the National Medal of Arts)
I abhor the idea of a perfect world.
It would bore me to tears.
Shelby Dade Foote, Jr.
Only those
who want everything done for them
are bored.
William Franklin “Billy” Graham Jr.
Boredom is the feeling
that everything is a waste of time;
serenity, that nothing is.
Thomas Stephen Szasz
You’ll find boredom
where there is the absence of a good idea.
Earl Nightingale
writer, speaker, and author)