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.

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.

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

The wise person often shuns society for fear of being bored.

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.

I'm bored with that line. I never use it anymore. My new line is 'In 15 minutes everybody will be famous.'

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

I wouldn't feel satisfied being on set every day doing a romantic comedy - I'd be bored to death.

I just finished my homework fast I was bored to death. There wasn't 500 channels so there was a thing for a librarian to teach a kid like me about reading. I started reading early and I read all the time because I love it.

If I die prematurely I shall be saved from being bored to death at my own success.

I've hung out at dozens of playgrounds bored out of my mind with not even a look of comfort from disapproving mothers all around me. Either they think I'm a pedophile or a deadbeat dad. That's what I get for being a single dad - suspicious looks at the playground.

When I'm bored or tired of being blonde I'll throw on a wig. It's a lot less of a permanent way to change your look and I have about 10 - all different colors shapes bobs long hair short feathered.