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

Airline travel is hours of boredom interrupted by moments of stark terror.

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

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

I grew up in Le Mars, Iowa, and even though it's a great place to grow up and be raised as a kid, there wasn't a lot to do. It was fairly boring, and I think the way I either escaped the boredom or found a way to keep myself occupied was through movies and TV shows.

One must choose in life between boredom and suffering.

Boredom is your imagination calling to you.

For me, the opposite of happiness isn't sadness but boredom.

The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom.

Boredom always precedes a period of great creativity.

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

Boredom is... a vital problem for the moralist, since half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it.

Isn't history ultimately the result of our fear of boredom?

Humor and laughter - not necessarily derogatory derision - are my pet tools. This may come from my general philosophy of never taking the world too seriously - for fear of dying of boredom.

Boredom is the dream bird that hatches the egg of experience. A rustling in the leaves drives him away.

There's nothing like impending death to rouse you from existential boredom.

I fear the boredom that comes with not learning and not taking chances.

Boredom is a fearsome prospect. There's a limit to the number of cars and microwaves you can buy. What do you do then?

Boredom, anger, sadness, or fear are not 'yours,' not personal. They are conditions of the human mind. They come and go. Nothing that comes and goes is you.

In many cases when a reader puts a story aside because it 'got boring,' the boredom arose because the writer grew enchanted with his powers of description and lost sight of his priority, which is to keep the ball rolling.

Keep growing for stagnation steals your potential and breeds boredom; add more to what you already know. @reenadossauthor

Things, objects, places and people will not bring you lasting joy. Without inner joy and peace, they will bring you momentary pleasure followed by boredom and then anger. True happiness truly does come from within.

"When he was in college, a famous poet made a useful distinction for him. He had drunk enough in the poet's company to be compelled to describe to him a poem he was thinking of. It would be a monologue of sorts, the self-contemplation of a student on a summer afternoon who is reading Euphues. The poem itself would be a subtle series of euphuisms, translating the heat, the day, the student's concerns, into symmetrical posies; translating even his contempt and boredom with that famously foolish book into a euphuism.

Boredom is the fear of self.