Inspirational Quotations on Bores

Bores bore each other too; but it never seems to teach them anything.
—Don Marquis (1878–1937) American Humorist, Journalist, Author

Unless a man has been taught what to do with success after getting it, the achievement of it must inevitably leave him a prey to boredom.
—Bertrand A. Russell (1872–1970) British Philosopher, Mathematician, Social Critic

For I have neither wit, nor words, nor worth, action nor utterance, nor the power of speech, to stir men’s blood. I only speak right on. I tell you that which you yourselves do know.
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616) British Playwright

The devil’s name is dullness.
—Robert E. Lee (1807–70) Confederate General during American Civil War

You’ll find boredom where there is an absence of a good idea.
—Earl Nightingale (1921–89) American Motivational Speaker, Author

Boredom: the desire for desires.
—Leo Tolstoy (1828–1910) Russian Novelist

Boredom is not an end-product, is comparatively rather an early stage in life and art. You’ve got to go by or past or through boredom, as through a filter, before the clear product emerges.
—Unknown

A bore is a person who opens his mouth and puts his feats in it.
—Henry Ford (1863–1947) American Businessperson, Engineer

The secret of making one’s self tiresome, is, not to know when to stop.
—Voltaire (1694–1778) French Philosopher, Author

The life of the creative man is lead, directed and controlled by boredom. Avoiding boredom is one of our most important purposes.
—Saul Steinberg (1914–99) American Cartoonist, Illustrator

Life is thickly sown with thorns, and I know no other remedy than to pass quickly through them. The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us.
—Voltaire (1694–1778) French Philosopher, Author

Boredom is a disease of the mind and psyche, an insidious disease. It not only takes the joy out of life, but the creativity as well. No one of God’s children should ever be bored with life.
—Unknown

Against boredom the gods themselves fight in vain.
—Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900) German Philosopher, Scholar, Writer

What’s wrong with being a boring kind of guy?
—George H. W. Bush (1924–2018) American Republican Statesman, 41st President

A healthy male adult bore consumes each year one and a half times his own weight in other people’s patience.
—John Updike (1932–2009) American Novelist, Poet, Short-Story Writer

We are almost always wearied in the company of persons with whom we are not permitted to be weary.
—Francois de La Rochefoucauld (1613–80) French Writer

The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity.
—Dorothy Parker (1893–1967) American Humorist, Journalist

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 (535BCE–475BCE) Ancient Greek Philosopher

Boredom is a vital problem for the moralist, since half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it.
—Bertrand A. Russell (1872–1970) British Philosopher, Mathematician, Social Critic

Boredom is the dream bird that hatches the egg of experience. A rustling in the leaves drives him away.
—Walter Benjamin (1892–1940) German Literary and Marxist Critic

All kinds are good except the kind that bores you.
—Voltaire (1694–1778) French Philosopher, Author

And ’tis remarkable that they talk most who have the least to say.
—Matthew Prior (1664–1721) English Poet, Diplomat

Boredom is always counter-revolutionary. Always.
—Guy Debord (1931–94) French Philosopher

There are few wild beasts more to be dreaded than a talking man having nothing to say.
—Jonathan Swift (1667–1745) Irish Satirist

O, he is as tedious as is a tired horse, or a railing wife; worse than a smoky house.
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616) British Playwright

I am quite serious when I say that I do not believe there are, on the whole earth besides, so many intensified bores as in these United States. No man can form an adequate idea of the real meaning of the word, without coming here.
—Charles Dickens (1812–70) English Novelist

Is boredom anything less than the sense of one’s faculties slowly dying?
—John Berger (1926–2017) English Art Critic, Novelist

Boredom is not an end-product, is comparatively rather an early stage in life and art. You’ve got to go by or past or through boredom, as through a filter, before the clear product emerges.
—F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896–1940) American Novelist

If you are bored with life, if you don’t get up every morning with a burning desire to do things—you don’t have enough goals.
—Lou Holtz (1893–1980) American Stage Performer

Life is never boring, but some people choose to be bored.
—Wayne Dyer (1940–2015) American Self-Help Author