Aldous Huxley:

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.

Bert Leston Taylor:

A bore is a man who, when you ask him how he is, tells you.

Bette Midler:

Cherish forever what makes you unique, ‘cuz you're really a yawn if it goes.

Charlotte Whitton:

Boredom is like a pitiless zooming in on the epidermis of time. Every instant is dilated and magnified like the pores of the face.

Ellen Parr:

The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity.

Eric Hoffer:

When people are bored, it is primarily with their own selves that they are bored.

Fritz Redl:

Boredom will always remain the greatest enemy of school disciplines. If we remember that children are bored, not only when they don't happen to be interested in the subject or when the teacher doesn't make it interesting, but also when certain working conditions are out of focus with their basic needs, then we can realize what a great contributor to discipline problems boredom really is. Research has shown that boredom is closely related to frustration and that the effect of too much frustration is invariably irritability, withdrawal, rebellious opposition or aggressive rejection of the whole show.

When We Deal With Children

George Bush:

What's wrong with being a boring kind of guy?

Leo Tolstoy:

Boredom: the desire for desires.

Anna Karenina

Lin Yutang:

Probably the difference between man and the monkeys is that the monkeys are merely bored, while man has boredom plus imagination.

Metallica:

Boredom comes from a boring mind.

Saul Steinberg:

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

Sir Cecil Beaton:

Perhaps the world's second worst crime is boredom. The first is being a bore.

Soren Kierkegaard:

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.

Susan Sontag:

Boredom is just the reverse side of fascination: both depend on being outside rather than inside a situation, and one leads to the other.

On Photography

Virginia Woolf:

Yet it is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top.

Voltaire:

All kinds are good except the kind that bores you.