I have a fear of being boring.

Boredom is like a pitiless zooming in on the epidermis of time. Every instant is dilated and magnified like the pores of the face.

Perhaps the world's second worst crime is boredom. The first is being a bore.

Is boredom anything less than the sense of one's faculties slowly dying?

Never chain your dogs together with sausages. One must accustom one's self to be bored.

Everyone is a bore to someone. That is unimportant. The things to avoid is being a bore to oneself.

What's wrong with being a boring kind of guy?

I spent a year in that town, one Sunday.

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.

The age of chivalry is past. Bores have succeeded to dragons.

His shortcoming is his long staying.

Only the most acute and active animals are capable of boredom. -- A theme for a great poet would be God's boredom on the seventh day of creation.

The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity.

Good-bye. I am leaving because I am bored.

People of Wealth and the so called upper class suffer the most from boredom.

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

The life of the creative man is lead, directed and controlled by boredom. Avoiding boredom is one of our most important purposes.

A bore is a man who, when you ask him how he is, tells you.

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

He who seeks rest finds boredom. He who seeks work finds rest.

All kinds are good except the kind that bores you.