The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
We always get bored with those whom we bore.
Everyone is a bore to someone. That is unimportant. The thing to avoid is being a bore to oneself.
Boredom, after all, is a form of criticism.
Boredom is the root of all evil - the despairing refusal to be oneself.
Nobody is bored when he is trying to make something that is beautiful, or to discover something that is true.
I think one of the most boring things is a person's taste.
Punctuality is the virtue of the bored.
I cannot abide being bored.
The man who is aware of himself is henceforward independent; and he is never bored, and life is only too short, and he is steeped through and through with a profound yet temperate happiness.
The wise person often shuns society for fear of being bored.