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| Man ska inte ha tråkigare än man kan stå utmed. | Mikal Rode |
| The Beatles räddade världen från tristess. | George Harrison (1943-2001) |
| The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity. | Ellen Parr |
| What's wrong with being a boring kind of guy? | Gerald Brenan (1894-1987) |
| Miss Searle had always considered boredom an intellectual defeat | Mary Renault (1905-1972) |
| One should only see a psychiatrist out of boredom. | Muriel Spark (1918-) |
| No place is boring, if you've had a good night's sleep and have a pocket full of unexposed film. | Robert Adams (1917-) |
| Is boredom anything less than the sense of one's faculties slowly dying? | Sir Arthur Helps (1813-1875) |
| Boredom is like a pitiless zooming in on the epidermis of time. Every instant is dilated and magnified like the pores of the face. | Charlotte Whitton (1896-1975) |
| He who seeks rest finds boredom. He who seeks work finds rest. | Dylan Thomas (1914-1953) |
| The biggest bore is the person who is bored by everyone and everything. | Frank Tyger |
| 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 (1920-1992) |
| By his very success in inventing labor-saving devices modern man has manufactured an abyss of boredom that only the privileged classes in earlier civilizations have ever fathomed | Lewis Mumford (1895-1990) |
| Boredom is rage spread thin | Paul Tillich (1886-1965) |
| Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time; serenity, that nothing is. | Thomas S. Szasz (1920-) |
| Nobody is bored when he is trying to make something that is beautiful or to discover something that is true. | William Ralph Inge (1860-1954) |
| Boredom, after all, is a form of criticism | Wendell Phillips (1811-1884) |
| In order to live free and happily, you must sacrifice boredom. It is not always an easy sacrifice. | Richard David Bach (1936-) |
| Work spares us from three evils: boredom, vice, and need | François-Marie Arouet de Voltaire (1694-1778) |
| Uncertainty and mystery are energies of life. Don't let them scare you unduly, for they keep boredom at bay and spark creativity. | R. I. Fitzhenry |
| 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 Russell (1872-1970) |
| I fell asleep reading a dull book and dreamed I kept on reading, so I awoke from sheer boredom. | Heinrich Heine (1797-1856) |
| I've got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom. | Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881) |
| Procrastination avoids boredom; one never has the feeling that there is nothing important to do | Isaac Asimov (1920-1992) |
| 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 (1920-1992) |
| 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 (1894-1963) |
| The Beatles saved the world from boredom. | George Harrison (1943-2001) |
| Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time; serenity, that nothing is. | Thomas S. Szasz (1920-) |
| The life of the creative man is lead, directed and controlled by boredom. Avoiding boredom is one of our most important purposes. | Susan Sontag (1933-2004) |
| Life swings like a pendulum backward and forward between pain and boredom | Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860) |
| Love fed fat soon turns to boredom | Publius Ovidius Naso (43 f.Kr.-17 f.Kr.) |
| Without lies humanity would perish of despair and boredom | Anatole France (1844-1924) |
| Boredom, after all, is a form of criticism | Wendell Phillips (1811-1884) |
| No place is boring, if you've had a good night's sleep and have a pocket full of unexposed film. | Robert Adams (1917-) |
| One must chose in life between boredom and suffering | Madame de Staël (1766-1817) |
| Boredom: the desire for desires | Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy (1828-1910) |
| No man ever dared to manifest his boredom so insolently as does a Siamese tomcat when he yawns in the face of his amorously importunate wife. | Aldous Huxley (1894-1963) |
| Bore: a person who talks when you wish him to listen. | Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914) |
| Is boredom anything less than the sense of one's faculties slowly dying? | Sir Arthur Helps (1813-1875) |
| Boredom is just the reverse side of fascination: both depend on being outside rather than inside a situation, and one leads to the other. | Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860) |
| 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 Russell (1872-1970) |
| In the ancient recipe, the three antidotes for dullness or boredom are sleep, drink, and travel. It is rather feeble. From sleep you wake up, from drink you become sober, and from travel you come home again. And then where are you? No, the two sovere | D.H. Lawrence (1885-1930) |
| The Beatles saved the world from boredom. | George Harrison (1943-2001) |
| What's wrong with being a boring kind of guy? | Gerald Brenan (1894-1987) |
| One should only see a psychiatrist out of boredom. | Muriel Spark (1918-) |
| The presidency has many problems, but boredom is the least of them. | Richard M. Nixon (1913-1994) |
| The afternoon passed more slowly than a walnut-sized kidney stone. | Tom Robbins (1936-) |
| 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 (1958-) |
| Repose is a good thing, but boredom is its brother | François-Marie Arouet de Voltaire (1694-1778) |