Quotes About Boredom

If you can’t stand solitude, maybe you bore others too.

— Bob Gordon

I never allow myself to be bored, because boredom is ageing.  If you live in the past you grow old, and dull, and dusty.  It’s very nice, of course, to be young and beautiful; but there are other qualities, thank God.

— Marie Tempest

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 bore is a fellow talking who can change the subject back to his topic of conversation faster than you can change it back to yours.

— Laurence J. Peter

A man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore.

— Samuel Butler

The secret of being a bore is to tell everything.

— Voltaire

Bore: a person who talks when you wish him to listen.

— Ambrose Bierce

Ennui, felt on the proper occasions, is a sign of intelligence.

— Clifton Fadiman

Bored people, unless they sleep a lot, are cruel.

— Renata Adler

She has the reputation of being outspoken — by no one.

— Jack Paar

Somebody’s boring me — I think it’s me.

— Dylan Thomas

Boredom: the desire for desires.

— Leo Tolstoy

A bore is a man who, when you ask him how he is, tells you.

— Bert Taylor

No one really listens to anyone else, and if you try it for a while you’ll see why.

— Mignon McLaughlin