Boredom quotes

Be content to act, and leave the talking to others.
- Baltasar Gracian

I would rather die of passion than of boredom.
- Vincent van Gogh

Push yourself because no one else is going to do it for you.

It's going to be hard. But hard is not impossible.

Men die of boredom, psychological conflict and disease. The do not die of hard work.
- David Ogilvy

I think it’s necessary to let kids be bored once in a while, that’s how they learn to be creative.
- Kim Raver

Boredom is not an end-product, is comparatively rather an early stage in life and art. You've got to go by or past or through boredom, as through a filter, before the clear product emerges.

I can excuse everything but boredom. Boring people don't have to stay that way.
- Hedy Lamarr

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

There is something more terrible than a hell of suffering – a hell of boredom.
- Victor Hugo

Only boring people get bored.
- Ruth Burke

Boredom is the root of all evil, the despairing refusal to be oneself.
- Søren Aabye Kierkegaard

Boredom is your mind and body’s way of telling you you’re not living up to your potential.
- Hal Sparks

The penalty for success is to be bored by the people who used to snub you.
- Nancy Astor

Boredom is the price one pays for not enjoying everything.
- Marty Rubin

In order to live free and happily you must sacrifice boredom. It is not always an easy sacrifice.
- Richard Bach

Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time; serenity, that nothing is.
- Thomas S.Szasz

Being bored is an insult to oneself.
- Jules Renard

Only those who want everything done for them are bored.
- Billy Graham

Boredom slays more of existence than war.
- Norman Mailer

I’m as bored as a midget in a theme park.

The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity.
- Dorothy Parker

When we hold back out of laziness, that is when we tie ourselves into knots of boredom.
- Walter Annenberg

The concept of boredom entails an inability to use up present moments in a personally fulfilling way.
- Wayne W. Dyer