* Your true traveller finds boredom agreeable rather 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.
- Aldous Huxley

* "The cure for boredom is a good book"
- T. Mike Runger

* Boredom is a state of mind.
- Hisham Thainat

 

* It is the unknown that excites the ardor of scholars, who, in the known alone, would shrivel up with boredom.
- Wallace Stevens

* Man is the only animal that can be bored.
- Erich Fromm, The Sane Society (1955)

* The chief product of an automated society is a widespread and deepening sense of boredom.
- Cyril Parkinson
 

* The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity.
- Widely attributed to Dorothy Parker and to Ellen Parr, but the origin is unknown.
 

* The life of the creative man is led, directed and controlled by boredom. Avoiding boredom is one of our most important purposes.
- Saul Steinberg
 

* The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom.
- Arthur Schopenhauer
 

* We often forgive those who bore us, but never those whom we bore.
- François Duc de La Rochefoucauld, Maxims