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132,047. A bore is someone who deprives you of solitude without providing you with company. Oscar Wilde
2,041. 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 ...
Vivian: Monopoly? (Life’s Like That & Boredom & Comedy) The Young Ones: Boring, BBC
43,079. God, I’m bored. I may as well be listening to Genesis. (Comedy & Boredom) The Young Ones: Flood ***** Rick
43,111. God, I’m bored ... Even mindless violence seems boring today. (Comedy & Boredom) Young Ones: Summer Holiday ***** Vivian
43,112. I’m bored and deserve to die. This is the end. Armageddon! No future! (Comedy & Boredom) ibid.
119,649. 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. (Memory & Boredom) Albert Camus, The Stranger
2,110. Life, friends, is boring. (Life's Like That & Boredom) John Berryman 1914-1972, 77 Dream Songs, 1964
2,222. We’re bored to death. There’s no denying it. (Life’s Like That & Boredom) Samuel Beckett, Waiting for Godot starring Stephen Brennan & Barry McGovern & Johnny Murphy & Sam McGovern et al, director Michael Lindsay-Hogg, Vladimir
65,561. Nothing happens. Nobody comes, nobody goes. It’s awful. Samuel Beckett, Waiting for Godot
4,135. The world is a veil of hopeless misery. Marriage nothing but institutionalised boredom. (World & Misery & Marriage & Boredom & Life's Like That) Ian Pattison, Rab C Nesbitt, Growth
5,416. 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. (Civil Liberty & Liberty & Freedom & Boredom) Aldous Huxley
6,201. Society is now one polish’d horde,/ Form’d of two mighty tribes, the Bores and Bored. (Society & Boredom) Lord Byron, Don Juan
7,221. Books – the best antidote against the marsh-gas of boredom and vacuity. (Book & Boredom) George Steiner
25,706. Twenty minutes observing humanity I’m already bored. (Star Trek & Boredom) Star Trek: Voyager: Q2 s7e19, son of Q on deck
39,675. I’m bored ... I’m bored all of the time. (Boxing & Boredom) Mike Tyson
47,720. 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. (Evil & Boredom) Soren Kierkegaard
53,103. A subject for a great poet would be God’s boredom after the seventh day of creation. (Creationism & God & Boredom) Friedrich Nietzsche
53,786. Boredom is ... a vital problem for the moralist, since half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it. (Happiness & Unhappiness & Boredom) Bertrand Russell, The Conquest of Happiness 1930
53,816. The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom. (Happiness & Pain & Boredom) Arthur Schopenhauer
43,067. I like boring things. Andy Warhol
65,547. The effect of boredom on a large scale in history is under- -estimated. 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
65,548. Passion always goes, and boredom stays. (Boredom & Passion) Coco Chanel
65,549. The secret of being a bore ... is to tell everything. Voltaire
65,550. He had the satisfied countenance of a man who has never succeeded in boring himself. Peter Ackroyd, The Last Testament of Oscar Wilde 1983
65,551. Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time; serenity, that nothing is. Thomas Szasz
65,552. 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. (Boredom & United States of America) Italo Calvino
65,553. Boredom is raged spread thin. (Boredom & Rage) Paul Tillich
65,554. Isn’t history ultimately the result of our fear of boredom? (Boredom & History) Emile M Cioran
65,555. 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
65,556. Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves? Friedrich Nietzsche
65,557. Boredom is the conviction that you can't change ... the shriek of unused capacities. Saul Bellow, The Adventures of Augie March
65,558. I am never bored; to be bored is an insult to one’s self. Jules Renard
65,559. I’m bored with it all. (Boredom & Churchill & Famous Last Words) Winston Churchill, reported last words