Boredom is... a vital problem for the moralist, since half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it.

- Bertrand Russell

I wanted to get that sense of peace and even boredom that comes with long familiarity.

- Debbie Reynolds

He who seeks rest finds boredom. He who seeks work finds rest.

- Dylan Thomas

My drive to put myself on the line comes from boredom. From that feeling when you go to bed and think, 'What did I do today?' It doesn't have to be something monumental, just a feeling that you really tried to look at something, or look into something.

- Dylan Moran

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

- Cecil Beaton

The chief product of an automated society is a widespread and deepening sense of boredom.

- C. Northcote Parkinson

Virtuous people often revenge themselves for the constraints to which they submit by the boredom which they inspire.

- Confucius

As soon as you set foot on a yacht you belong to some man, not to yourself, and you die of boredom.

- Coco Chanel

Boredom is a concept that I don't understand.

- Christian Louboutin

The one thing for an actor that is complete death is if you're bored, because that boredom will show in your work.

- Benjamin Bratt

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

Airline travel is hours of boredom interrupted by moments of stark terror.

- Al Boliska

Boredom is usually what spurs either bad decisions or any decision at all.

- Amy Seimetz

Is boredom anything less than the sense of one's faculties slowly dying?

- Arthur Helps

The main thing I got from growing up in a suburb is the boredom you have as a child.

- Alia Shawkat

Boredom or being sick of what you've done before is a big part of being in a band.

- Alex Kapranos

It's precisely in those moments when I don't know what to do, boredom drives one to try a host of possibilities to either get somewhere or not get anywhere.

- Anish Kapoor

Boredom is just the reverse side of fascination: both depend on being outside rather than inside a situation, and one leads to the other.

- Arthur Schopenhauer

The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom.

- Arthur Schopenhauer

Without lies humanity would perish of despair and boredom.

- Anatole France