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

The essence of life is the smile of round female bottoms, under the shadow of cosmic boredom.
Guy de Maupassant

The life of the creative man is lead, directed and controlled by boredom. Avoiding boredom is one of our most important purposes.
Susan Sontag

The presidency has many problems, but boredom is the least of them.
Richard M. Nixon

The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom.
Arthur Schopenhauer

There's a rebirth that goes on with us continuously as human beings. I don't understand, personally, how you can be bored. I can understand how you can be depressed, but I just don't understand boredom.
Dustin Hoffman

There's no excuse to be bored. Sad, yes. Angry, yes. Depressed, yes. Crazy, yes. But there's no excuse for boredom, ever.
Viggo Mortensen

This is the curse of our age, even the strangest aberrations are no cure for boredom.
Stendhal

To do the same thing over and over again is not only boredom: it is to be controlled by rather than to control what you do.
Heraclitus

Variety is more than a means of avoiding boredom, since art is more than an entertainment of the senses.
Rudolf Arnheim

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

When we hold back out of laziness, that is when we tie ourselves into knots of boredom.
Walter Annenberg

Who wants a world in which the guarantee that we shall not die of starvation entails the risk of dying of boredom?
Raoul Vaneigem

Without lies humanity would perish of despair and boredom.
Anatole France

Writer's block is the greatest side effect of boredom.
Jason Zebehazy

You'll find boredom where there is the absence of a good idea.
Earl Nightingale

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