Someone's boring me. I think it's me.
Dylan Thomas
Strange new problems are being reported in the growing generations of children whose mothers were always there, driving them around, helping them with their homework - an inability to endure pain or discipline or pursue any self-sustained goal of any sort, a devastating boredom with life.
Betty Friedan
A healthy male adult bore consumes each year one and a half times his own weight in other people's patience.
John Updike
Miss Searle had always considered boredom an intellectual defeat.
Mary Renault
He who seeks rest finds boredom. He who seeks work finds rest.
Dylan Thomas
Is boredom anything less than the sense of one's faculties slowly dying?
Sir Arthur Helps
The nice thing about being a celebrity is that when you bore people, they think it's their fault.
Henry Kissinger
What's wrong with being a boring kind of guy?
Gerald Brenan
Bore, n.: A person who talks when you wish him to listen.
Ambrose Bierce
Every hero becomes a bore at last.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Boredom is like a pitiless zooming in on the epidermis of time. Every instant is dilated and magnified like the pores of the face.
Charlotte Whitton
There's no excuse to be bored. Sad, yes. Angry, yes. Depressed, yes. Crazy, yes. But there's no excuse for boredom, ever.
Viggo Mortensen
A bore is a man who deprives you of solitude without providing you with company.
Gian Vincenzo Gravina
The penalty for success is to be bored by the people who used to snub you.
Nancy Astor
Good-bye. I am leaving because I am bored.
George Saunders
Nobody is bored when he is trying to make something that is beautiful or to discover something that is true.
W. R. Inge
Every improvement in communication makes the bore more terrible.
Frank Moore Colby
A bore is a man who, when you ask him how he is, tells you.
Bert Leston Taylor
The capacity of human beings to bore one another seems to be vastly greater than that of any other animal.
H. L. Mencken
The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity.
Dorothy Parker
Discussing how old you are is the temple of boredom.
Ruth Gordon
Sooner barbarity than boredom.
Theophile Gautier
It's long hours of boredom, punctuated by moments of, 'Wow! What did we find?!
Steve Simpson
Boredom, after all, is a form of criticism.
William Phillips
Boredom is the only downside.
Simon Wilson
One should only see a psychiatrist out of boredom.
Muriel Spark
It keeps the boredom away.
Leon Deemer
Boredom is a big factor. When it's just a job, it's time to leave.
Dory Hollander
How some of the writers I come across get through their books without dying of boredom is beyond me.
William Gaddis
Boredom is always counter-revolutionary. Always.
Guy Debord
Boredom is a self-inflicted insult.
Bill Purdin
Writer's block is the greatest side effect of boredom.
Jason Zebehazy
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