Boredom proverbs

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◆ Death: Human beings make life so interesting. Do you know, that in a universe so full of wonders, they have managed to invent boredom.

- Terry Pratchett99

◆ I'm bored' is a useless thing to say. I mean, you live in a great, big, vast world that you've seen none percent of. Even the inside of your own mind is endless; it goes on forever, inwardly, do you understand? The fact that you're alive is amazing, so you don't get to say ‘I'm bored.

- Louis C.K.99

◆ Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves?

- Friedrich Nietzsche99

◆ I really think I write about everyday life. I don't think I'm quite as odd as others say I am. Life is intrinsically, well, boring and dangerous at the same time. At any given moment the floor may open up. Of course, it almost never does; that's what makes it so boring.

- Edward Gorey99

◆ ...I also believe that introversion is my greatest strength. I have such a strong inner life that I'm never bored and only occasionally lonely. No matter what mayhem is happening around me, I know I can always turn inward.

- Susan Cain99

◆ Never underestimate the determination of a kid who is time-rich and cash-poor.

- Cory Doctorow99

◆ The absence of the will to live is, alas, not sufficient to make one want to die.

- Michel Houellebecq99

◆ The truth is that everyone is bored, and devotes himself to cultivating habits.

- Albert Camus99

◆ The Beatles saved the world from boredom.

- George Harrison99

◆ When I have neither pleasure nor pain and have been breathing for a while the lukewarm insipid air of these so called good and tolerable days, I feel so bad in my childish soul that I smash my moldering lyre of thanksgiving in the face of the slumbering god of contentment and would rather feel the very devil burn in me than this warmth of a well-heated room. A wild longing for strong emotions and sensations seethes in me, a rage against this toneless, flat, normal and sterile life. I have a mad impulse to smash something, a warehouse, perhaps, or a cathedral, or myself, to commit outrages, to pull off the wigs of a few revered idols...

- Hermann Hesse99

◆ Boredom can be a lethal thing on a small island.

- Christopher Moore99

◆ Alcohol makes other people less tedious, and food less bland, and can help provide what the Greeks called entheos, or the slight buzz of inspiration when reading or writing. The only worthwhile miracle in the New Testament—the transmutation of water into wine during the wedding at Cana—is a tribute to the persistence of Hellenism in an otherwise austere Judaea. The same applies to the seder at Passover, which is obviously modeled on the Platonic symposium: questions are asked (especially of the young) while wine is circulated. No better form of sodality has ever been devised: at Oxford one was positively expected to take wine during tutorials. The tongue must be untied. It's not a coincidence that Omar Khayyam, rebuking and ridiculing the stone-faced Iranian mullahs of his time, pointed to the value of the grape as a mockery of their joyless and sterile regime. Visiting today's Iran, I was delighted to find that citizens made a point of defying the clerical ban on booze, keeping it in their homes for visitors even if they didn't particularly take to it themselves, and bootlegging it with great brio and ingenuity. These small revolutions affirm the human.

- Christopher Hitchens99

◆ The writer's curse is that even in solitude, no matter its duration, he never grows lonely or bored.

- Criss Jami99

◆ Boredom is the conviction that you can't change ... the shriek of unused capacities.

- Saul Bellow99

◆ What kind of life can you have in a house without books?

- Sherman Alexie99