You discover the boredom which is inseparable from poverty; the times when you have nothing to do and, being underfed, can interest yourself in nothing … You discover that a man who has gone even a week on bread and margarine is not a man any longer, only a belly with a few accessory organs. George Orwell, Down and Out in Paris and London
But the lack of facilities was only part of the problem. Swanley was built around domesticity. Its population had quadrupled in ten years, not because it offered work, but because it offered housing, out of the hubbub of London. So its purpose was boredom. The stultifying listlessness of the place seeped through the emptiness of the new estates and the deserted main road, which pottered past a fenced-off stagnant pond, Woolworths, and away up to the big city that was Sidcup. Sidcup was never busy. Mark Steel, Reasons to be Cheerful
The presidency has many problems, but boredom is the least of them. Richard M Nixon
Believe me, Captain, immortality consists mostly of boredom. Star Trek s2e9: Metamorphosis, Cochrane
I have devoted my life to the study of death. And do you know what I have found? Death is nothing more than the result of cellular boredom. Star Trek s5e25: Deep Space Nine: In the Cards, Dr Giger
Idleness as such is by no means a root of evil; on the contrary, it is truly a divine life, if one is not bored. Søren Kierkegaard, Either/Or: A Fragment of Life