Boredom is a vital problem for the moralist, since at least half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it.
Bertrand Russell
The chief product of an automated society is a widespread and deepening sense of boredom.
Cyril Northcote Parkinson
God's people have no assurances that the dark experiences of life will be held at bay, much less that God will provide some sort of running commentary on the meaning of each day's allotment of confusion, boredom, pain, or achievement.
David Wells
The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity.
Dorothy Parker
The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity.
Ellen Parr
They say that death kills you, But death doesn't kill you. Boredom and indifference kill you.
Iggy Pop
I don't believe in an afterlife, so I don't have to spend my whole life fearing hell, or fearing heaven even more. For whatever the tortures of hell, I think the boredom of heaven would be even worse.
Isaac Asimov
Boredom is a sign of satisfied ignorance, blunted apprehension, crass sympathies, dull understanding, feeble powers of attention, and irreclaimable weakness of character.
James Bridie
A scholar knows no boredom.
Jean Paul Friedrich Richter
God could cause us considerable embarrassment by revealing all the secrets of nature to us we should not know what to do for sheer apathy and boredom.
Johann von Goethe
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