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

How some of the writers I come across get through their books without dying of boredom is beyond me.
William Gaddis

I can excuse everything but boredom. Boring people don't have to stay that way.
Hedy Lamarr

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

I fell asleep reading a dull book and dreamed I kept on reading, so I awoke from sheer boredom.
Heinrich Heine

I know when I'm working I seldom get into trouble. My educated guess is that boredom has caused most of the problems with Hollywood celebrities.
Hedy Lamarr

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

I've got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom.
Thomas Carlyle

I've made a career over the last seventeen years of mostly playing men in uniform, especially cops. The one thing for an actor that is death, is if you're bored. The boredom will show in your work.
Benjamin Bratt

Idle people are often bored and bored people, unless they sleep a lot, are cruel. It is not accident that boredom and cruelty are great preoccupations in our time.
Renata Adler

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

In love there are no vacations. No such thing. Love has to be lived fully with its boredom and all that.
Marguerite Duras

In marketing you must choose between boredom, shouting and seduction. Which do you want?
Roy H. Williams

In order to live free and happily you must sacrifice boredom. It is not always an easy sacrifice.
Richard Bach

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

Isn't history ultimately the result of our fear of boredom?
Emile M. Cioran

It is not the simple statement of facts that ushers in freedom; it is the constant repetition of them that has this liberating effect. Tolerance is the result not of enlightenment, but of boredom.
Quentin Crisp

It is only a step from boredom to disillusionment, which leads naturally to self-pity, which in turn ends in chaos.
Manly Hall

It is the unknown that excites the ardor of scholars, who, in the known alone, would shrivel up with boredom.
Wallace Stevens

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