Boredom is the legitimate kingdom of the philanthropic.

I can think of nothing more boring for the American people than to have to sit in their living rooms for a whole half hour looking at my face on their television screens.

I know many books which have bored their readers, but I know of none which has done real evil.

Virtuous people often revenge themselves for the constraints to which they submit by the boredom which they inspire.

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.

Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves?

The secret of being a bore… is to tell everything.

I don’t want to wake up and be bored. That’s probably my greatest fear is to have nothing to do. What better job is there than to play quarterback for an NFL team, and certainly one that I’ve been on for a long time and had success with? I don’t plan on giving it up any time soon.

I tend to get bored quickly, which means I must be boring.

Who does not desire such a victory by which we shall join places in our Kingdom, so far divided by nature, and for which we shall set up trophies in another conquered world?

Thus so wretched is man that he would weary even without any cause for weariness… and so frivolous is he that, though full of a thousand reasons for weariness, the least thing, such as playing billiards or hitting a ball, is sufficient enough to amuse him.

Our ambition should be to rule ourselves, the true kingdom for each one of us; and true progress is to know more, and be more, and to do more.

My kingdom is not of this world. If it were, my servants would fight to prevent my arrest by the Jews. But now my kingdom is from another place.

Ever since the beginning of rock and roll, there’s been an Axl Rose. And it’s just boring. It’s totally boring to me.

I don’t see myself as a philosopher. That’s awfully boring.

Work is making a living out of being bored.

Gee, its lonesome in the outfield. It’s hard to keep awake with nothing to do.

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.

Men are so willing to respect anything that bores them.

I’ve lived in good climate, and it bores the hell out of me. I like weather rather than climate.

The basic fact about human existence is not that it is a tragedy, but that it is a bore. It is not so much a war as an endless standing in line.

I think if we didn’t contradict ourselves, it would be awfully boring. It would be tedious to be alive.

I like to do things quickly because I’m easily bored.

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

Somebody’s boring me. I think it’s me.

Life is better than death, I believe, if only because it is less boring, and because it has fresh peaches in it.

Honestly, I’ve been thinking lately about how boring I am. When I do get time to myself, I watch TV.

If it’s all instruction, you get annoyed with it and bored, and you stop reading. If it’s all entertainment, you read it quite quickly, your heart going pitty-pat, pitty-pat. But when you finish, that’s it. You’re not going to think about it much afterward, apart from the odd nightmare. You’re not going to read that book again.

You listen to the radio and all the songs sound the same, from 8 in the morning to 12.

Writing bores me so.

Boredom is just the reverse side of fascination: both depend on being outside rather than inside a situation, and one leads to the other.

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.

I pledge allegiance to the Christian flag, and to the Savior, for whose Kingdom it stands, one Savior, crucified, risen, and coming again, with life and liberty for all who believe.

The presidency has many problems, but boredom is the least of them.

I’d be so bored if I wasn’t going out there, knowing that I could still do it. So, I’m going to work hard to be ready to go, and I still plan on playing for a long time.

If you’re bored with life – you don’t get up every morning with a burning desire to do things – you don’t have enough goals.

I’ve got nothing to say most of the time.

I take risks because I get bored. And I get bored very easily.

The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom.

Money and investing can be complex, confusing, and often boring subjects.

No body can be healthful without exercise, neither natural body nor politic, and certainly, to a kingdom or estate, a just and honourable war is the true exercise.

A kingdom founded on injustice never lasts.

A lot of people are bored of all the political correctness.

I don’t like to be bored.

The capacity of human beings to bore one another seems to be vastly greater than that of any other animal.

As soon as you set foot on a yacht you belong to some man, not to yourself, and you die of boredom.

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.

I never look at fashion magazines. I find them incredibly boring.

I have been a youngster and I know speeches are boring.

There is something curiously boring about somebody else’s happiness.

When you combine boring with fear, you have fun.

I hate going to the gym and doing it the old-fashioned way. I hate anything that’s too straightforward, too routine, too familiar. I get bored really, really quickly.

I like telling stories, and I tell stories that interest me. It would be boring to have to go to nothing but the best restaurants. That would be a misery to me.

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.