Quotes about Boredom
He could not make them understand that he was a crotchety old fogey of twenty-eight, that he belonged to another generation, another era, another world, that having a good time bored him and was not worth the effort, and that they bored him, too. He could not make them shut up; they were worse than women. They had not brains enough to be introverted and repressed.
— Joseph Heller
Beware of monotony; it's the mother of all the deadly sins.
— Edith Wharton
Everything smaller than Heaven bores us because only Heaven is bigger than our hearts.
— Peter Kreeft
The most total opposite of pleasure is not pain but boredom, for we are willing to risk pain to make a boring life interesting.
— Peter Kreeft
Violence is spiritual junk food, and boredom is spiritual anorexia.
— Peter Kreeft
Man's condition ought to impel him to seek to discover whether there is a God and a solution to his predicament. But people occupy their time and their thoughts with trivialities and distractions, so as to avoid the despair, boredom, and anxiety that would inevitably result if those diversions were removed.
— William Lane Craig
I can safely say, on the authority of all that is revealed in the Word of God, that any man or woman on this earth who is bored and turned off by worship is not ready for heaven.
— AW Tozer
After my study of today's church, my conclusion is that the church is politely bored with God.
— AW Tozer
Being too good is apt to be uninteresting.
— Harry S. Truman