Soren Kierkegaard

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.

Danish Philosopher

Coco Chanel

Jump out the window if you are the object of passion. Flee it if you feel it. Passion goes, boredom remains.

French Designer

Jean Baudrillard

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

French Sociologist

Cecil Beaton

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

English Photographer

Gus Van Sant

For all the boredom the straight life brings, it's not too bad.

American Director

Peter Straub

If I planned everything out in advance, I'd expire of boredom.

American Writer

Anatole France

Without lies humanity would perish of despair and boredom.

French Novelist

Madame de Stael

One must choose in life between boredom and suffering.

French Writer

Hilton Als

Boredom means you develop your own interior life.

George Harrison

The Beatles saved the world from boredom.

British Musician

Boredom is a temporary feeling that passes, unlike personality traits which are permanent.

Temporal States

Expressing boredom can signal that you want change or stimulation, it's a way to communicate dissatisfaction.

Boredom Signals

In some cultures, showing boredom can be seen as rude or impolite, especially in formal settings.

Cultural Perceptions

 is that we're not allowing enough of that time. Because it's so easy to just pull out your phone and check the news or whatever. It doesn't matter. It stifles your ability to live within boredom. And boredom is important, because boredom then clicks in the creative activities. We don't allow ourselves to get bored anymore.

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 Some of them told me that they didn't recognize some of the emotions that they felt during challenge week, because, if you think about it, if you have never known life without connectivity, you may never have experienced boredom. And there could be consequences.

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 I would one day run away. From the age of six on, I kept a packed bag with some clothes and cans of food tucked away in the back of a closet. There was a deep restlessness in me, a primal fear that I would fall prey to a life of routine and boredom.

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 Yet, dependence on another to justify our existence easily leads to boredom and power games. To avoid this trap, Beauvoir advised loving authentically, which is more like a great friendship. Lovers support each other in discovering themselves,

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 immediately you want to make, convert into this. I never did this. I dropped it just like this, because you do this, if anyone runs after money, their life will not any beauty. It is boredom. A lot of people making a lot of money, billion,

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 Out of sheer boredom, I asked to be switched into another class. The next semester, I joined advanced English. We read two novels and wrote two book reports that semester. The drastic difference and rigor between these two English classes

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 Tragically, the characters are locked in an existential they wait in vain for an unknown figure to give them a sense of purpose, but their only sense of purpose comes from the act of waiting, While they wait, they sink into boredom,

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 but that just doesn't need a lot of human workers. And managing that transition is going to be the greatest challenge that our society faces. Voltaire summarized why; he said, "Work saves us from three great boredom, vice and need."

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 some troubadours didn't see yawning as caused by tiredness or boredom like we do today, but thought it a symbol of the deepest love? Or that in that same period, brave men -- knights --

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 Is it a hookup, a love story, paid sex, a chat room, a massage with a happy ending? Why do we think that men cheat out of boredom and fear of intimacy,