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I tend to drink too much. Why? I don’t know. I think it’s er simply boredom really. Peter Cook
There is no conversation more boring than the one where everybody agrees. Michel de Montaigne
Beverly: Apart from that, it’s just boring, do you know what I mean?
Angela: I think that comes from being married though doesn’t it? The fun wears off. Play for Today: Abigail’s Party ***** written and directed Mike Leigh, starring Alison Steadman, BBC 1977
The basic fact about human existence is not that it is a tragedy, but that it is a bore. It is not so much a war as an endless standing in line. H L Mencken
A human being who wakened in the morning with a queasy stomach, with fifteen hours to kill before next bedtime, had not much use for freedom. Jean-Paul Sartre
A bore is someone who deprives you of solitude without providing you with company. Oscar Wilde
Rick: Nothing interesting ever happens to us ... Guys, Guys, look at us. Squabbling. Bickering like children. What’s happening to us? We never used to be like this ... Nothing ever changes. Nothing ever happens to us ...
Vyvyan: Monopoly? The Young Ones: Boring, BBC 1982
God, I’m bored. I may as well be listening to Genesis. The Young Ones: Flood ***** Rick
God, I’m bored ... Even mindless violence seems boring today. Young Ones: Summer Holiday ***** Vyvyan
I’m bored and deserve to die. This is the end. Armageddon! No future! ibid.
I realized then that a man who had lived only one day could easily live for a hundred years in prison. He would have enough memories to keep him from being bored. Albert Camus, The Stranger
Life, friends, is boring. John Berryman, 1914-1972, 77 Dream Songs, 1964
We’re bored to death. There’s no denying it. Samuel Beckett, Waiting for Godot starring Stephen Brennan & Barry McGovern & Johnny Murphy & Sam McGovern et al, director Michael Lindsay-Hogg, Vladimir
Nothing happens. Nobody comes, nobody goes. It’s awful. ibid.
The world is a veil of hopeless misery. Marriage nothing but institutionalised boredom. Rab C Nesbitt: Growth, BBC 1997
Your true traveller finds boredom rather agreeable than painful. It is the symbol of his liberty – his excessive freedom. He accepts his boredom, when it comes, not merely philosophically, but almost with pleasure. Aldous Huxley
6Society is now one polish’d horde,
Form’d of two mighty tribes, the Bores and Bored. Lord Byron, Don Juan
Books – the best antidote against the marsh-gas of boredom and vacuity. George Steiner
Twenty minutes observing humanity I’m already bored. Star Trek: Voyager s7e19: Q2, son of Q on deck
I’m bored ... I’m bored all of the time. Mike Tyson
Since boredom advances and boredom is the root of all evil, no wonder, then, that the world goes backwards, that evil spreads. This can be traced back to the very beginning of the world. The gods were bored; therefore they created human beings. Soren Kierkegaard
A subject for a great poet would be God’s boredom after the seventh day of creation. Friedrich Nietzsche
Boredom is ... a vital problem for the moralist, since half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it. Bertrand Russell, The Conquest of Happiness, 1930
The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom. Arthur Schopenhauer
43,067. I like boring things. Andy Warhol
The effect of boredom on a large scale in history is underestimated. It is the main cause of revolution, and would soon bring to an end all the static Utopias and the farmyard civilization of the Fabians. William Ralph Inge, End of an Age 1948
Passion always goes, and boredom stays. Coco Chanel
The secret of being a bore ... is to tell everything. Voltaire
He had the satisfied countenance of a man who has never succeeded in boring himself. Peter Ackroyd, The Last Testament of Oscar Wilde, 1983
Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time; serenity, that nothing is. Thomas Szasz
A quarter of America is a dramatic, tense, violent country, exploding with contradictions, full of brutal, physiological vitality, and that is the America that I have really loved and love. But a good half of it is a country of boredom, emptiness, monotony, brainless production, and brainless consumption, and this is the American inferno. Italo Calvino
Boredom is rage spread thin. Paul Tillich
Isn’t history ultimately the result of our fear of boredom? Emile M Cioran
Boredom is a fearsome prospect. There’s a limit to the number of cars and microwaves you can buy. What do you do then? J G Ballard
Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves? Friedrich Nietzsche
Boredom is the conviction that you can’t change ... the shriek of unused capacities. Saul Bellow, The Adventures of Augie March
I am never bored; to be bored is an insult to one’s self. Jules Renard
I’m bored with it all. Winston Churchill, reported last words
Boredom forces you to ring people you haven’t seen for eighteen years and halfway through the conversation you remember why you left it so long. Boredom means you start to read not only mail-order catalogues but also the advertising inserts that fall on the floor. Boredom gives you half a mind to get a gun and go berserk in the local shopping centre, and you know where this is going. Eventually, boredom means you will take up golf. Jeremy Clarkson, The World According to Clarkson
The truth is that everyone is bored, and devotes himself to cultivating habits. Albert Camus, The Plague
Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius and it’s better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring. Marilyn Monroe
It is only a step from boredom to disillusionment, which leads naturally to self-pity, which in turn ends in chaos. Manly Palmer Hall
And I am bored to death with it. Bored to death with this place, bored to death with my life, bored to death with myself. Charles Dickens, Bleak House