Quotes about boredom

One widely articulated paradigm was based on the assumption that the end of the Cold War meant the end of significant conflict in global politics and the emergence of one relatively harmonious world. The most widely discussed formulation of this model was "the "end of history" thesis advanced by Francis Fukuyama. "We may be witnessing, Fukuyama argued, "… the end of history as such: that is, the end point of mankind's ideological evolution and the universalization of Western liberal democracy as the final form of human government." … The future will be devoted not to great exhilarating struggles over ideas but rather to resolving mundane economic and technical problems. And, he concluded rather sadly, it will all be rather boring.

Life is boring. I have experiences now only when I am writing.

Cannibals are no less dull than Englishmen.

“Even pain,” said the king, with no intention of being prophetic, “even pain is preferable to dying of unrelieved ennui.”

Short-lived people, people who could die, did not know what enemies loneliness and boredom could be.

Boredom helps one to make decisions.

All God does is watch us and kill us when we get boring. We must never, ever be boring.

"Routine, repetition, tedium, monotony, ephemeracy, inconsequence, abstraction, disorder, boredom, angst, ennui—these are the true hero’s enemies, and make no mistake, they are fearsome indeed. For they are real."

To him boredom was a tragedy, for he had no more realization than if he had been an animal that any state he was in would ever come to an end.

Most men have nothing in their heads but their physical needs; put them on a desert island with nothing to occupy their minds and they would go insane. They lack real motive. The curse of civilization is boredom.

I've seen excitement, and I've seen boredom. And boredom was best.

But better die than live mechanically a life that is a repetition of repetitions.