Boredom Quotes

There is nothing as boring as the truth.

The two foes of human happiness are pain and boredom.[Als die beiden Feinde des menschlichen Glückes, den Schmerz und die Langeweile.]

Since boredom advances and boredom is the root of all evil, no wonder, then, that the world goes backwards, that evil spreads. This can be traced back to the very beginning of the world. The gods were bored; therefore they created human beings.[Hvad Under da, at Verden gaaer tilbage, at det Onde mere og mere griber om sig, da Kjedsommeligheden tiltager og Kjedsommelighed er en Rod til alt Ondt. Dette kan man forfølge lige fra Verdens Begyndelse. Guderne kjedede sig, derfor skabte de Menneskene.]

She refused to be bored chiefly because she wasn’t boring.

Only teenagers think boring is bad. Adults, grown men and women who’ve been around the block a few times, know that boring is a gift straight from God. Life has more than enough excitement up its sleeve, ready to hit you with as soon as you’re not looking, without you adding to the drama.

Only boring people get bored. They have to prod themselves continually in order to feel alive.

Nothing stifles one like this perpetual symmetry. Symmetry is ennui, and ennui is the very essence of grief and melancholy. Despair yawns. Something more terrible than a hell of suffering may be conceived; to wit, a hell of ennui.[Rien ne serre le cœur comme la symétrie. C’est que la symétrie, c’est l’ennui, et l’ennui est le fond même du deuil. Le désespoir bâille. On peut rêver quelque chose de plus terrible qu’un enfer où l’on souffre, c’est un enfer où l’on s’ennuierait.]

Nothing is as boring as other people’s dreams.

Man was born to live in the convulsions of disquiet, or in the lethargy of boredom.[L’homme était né pour vivre dans les convulsions de l’inquiétude, ou dans la léthargie de l’ennui.]

Is not life a hundred times too short for us – to bore ourselves?[Ist das Leben nicht hundert Mal zu kurz, sich in ihm – zu langweilen?]

In order to escape ennui, a man either works beyond the extent of his former necessities, or he invents play, that is to say, work that is only intended to appease the general necessity for work.[Um der Langeweile zu entgehen, arbeitet der Mensch entweder über das Maass seiner sonstigen Bedürfnisse hinaus oder er erfindet das Spiel, das heisst die Arbeit, welche kein anderes Bedürfniss stillen soll, als das nach Arbeit überhaupt.]

I’ve seen excitement, and I’ve seen boredom. And boredom was best.