Top 15 Boredom Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom.”

— Arthur Schopenhauer

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2. “Boredom: the desire for desires.”

— Leo Tolstoy

Also featured in: Desire Quotes

3. “Life swings like a pendulum backward and forward between pain and boredom.”

— Arthur Schopenhauer

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4. “‘I’m bored’ is a useless thing to say. I mean, you live in a great, big, vast world that you’ve seen none percent of. Even the inside of your own mind is endless; it goes on forever, inwardly, do you understand? The fact that you’re alive is amazing, so you don’t get to say ‘I’m bored.’”

— Louis C.K.

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5. “Work spares us from three evils: boredom, vice, and need.”

— Voltaire

Also featured in: Evil Quotes

6. “The one unforgivable sin is to be boring.”

— Christopher Hitchens

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7. “Boredom always precedes a period of great creativity.”

— Robert M. Pirsig

8. “Every day is like Sunday. Every day is silent and grey.”

— Steven Morrissey

Also featured in: Sadness Quotes, Quotes About Songs

9. “The existential vacuum manifests itself mainly in a state of boredom.”

— Viktor E. Frankl

10. “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.”

— Lou Holtz

11. “I like boring things.”

— Andy Warhol

12. “If it’s planned, it’s boring.”

— Freddie Mercury

Also featured in: Silly Quotes

13. “Here we are now, entertain us.”

— Kurt Cobain

14. “The time I kill is killing me.”

— Mason Cooley

Also featured in: Depression Quotes

15. “There is no conversation more boring than the one where everybody agrees.”

— Michel de Montaigne