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

Boredom is an emptiness filled with insistence.

Leo Stein

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