The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom.

Idle people are often bored and bored people unless they sleep a lot are cruel. It is not accident that boredom and cruelty are great preoccupations in our time.

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

A subject for a great poet would be God's boredom after the seventh day of creation.

It is not the simple statement of facts that ushers in freedom it is the constant repetition of them that has this liberating effect. Tolerance is the result not of enlightenment but of boredom.

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.

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

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

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

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