Boredom is just the reverse side of fascination: both depend on being outside rather than inside a situation, and one leads to the other. Susan Sontag
Is boredom anything less than the sense of one’s faculties slowly dying? Arthur Helps
Boredom is the legitimate kingdom of the philanthropic. Virginia Woolf
If you’re bored with life – you don’t get up every morning with a burning desire to do things – you don’t have enough goals. Lou Holtz
The penalty for success is to be bored by the people who used to snub you. Lady Nancy Astor
The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity. Dorothy Parker
In order to live free and happily you must sacrifice boredom. It is not always an easy sacrifice. Richard Bach
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. Renata Adler
Is boredom anything less than the sense of one’s faculties slowly dying? John Berger
Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time; serenity, that nothing is. Thomas Szasz
The boredom occasioned by too much restraint is always preferable to that produced by an uncontrolled enthusiasm for a pointless variety. Osbert Lancaster