It's the boredom that kills you. You read until you're tired of that. You do crossword puzzles until you're tired of that. This is torture. This is mental torture.
Jack Kevorkian

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

Miss Searle had always considered boredom an intellectual defeat.
Mary Renault

Morality is a venereal disease. Its primary stage is called virtue; its secondary stage, boredom; its tertiary stage, syphilis.
Karl Kraus

Much is forgiven anyone who relieves the desperate boredom of the working press.
William Weld

One must chose in life between boredom and suffering.
Madame de Stael

One must, in one's life, make a choice between boredom and suffering.
Madame de Stael

One should only see a psychiatrist out of boredom.
Muriel Spark

Only the most acute and active animals are capable of boredom. - A theme for a great poet would be God's boredom on the seventh day of creation.
Lewis Cass

Our only competition in the theater is boredom, because if I'm bored with a play, if I'm revolted by a play on stage, with the Broadway prices, especially today, I'm going to walk out and not come back and pay that price again.
Jerome Lawrence

People of Wealth and the so called upper class suffer the most from boredom.
George Sanders

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

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

Running through things because you are familiar with them, breeds routine and this is the seed of boredom.
James Galway

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.
Soren Kierkegaard

Something opens our wings. Something makes boredom and hurt disappear. Someone fills the cup in front of us: We taste only sacredness.
Rumi

Sooner barbarity than boredom.
Theophile Gautier

Teens think listening to music helps them concentrate. It doesn't. It relieves them of the boredom that concentration on homework induces.
Marilyn vos Savant

The Beatles saved the world from boredom.
George Harrison

The boredom occasioned by too much restraint is always preferable to that produced by an uncontrolled enthusiasm for a pointless variety.
Osbert Lancaster