top of page

"Boredom is always counter-revolutionary. Always."

Guy Debord, French Writer

88

Create Your Own Wallpaper

Standard

Customized

"Boredom is always counter-revolutionary. Always."

Exlpore more Boredom quotes

"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."

Quentin Crisp, English Writer

Boredom, Effect, Facts, Freedom

"Boredom and ineffective attempts to escape tedium are the perpetual lot of humankind."

Kilroy J. Oldster, American Author

Boredom, Life, Escape, Struggle

"My own business always bores me to death, I prefer other people's."

Oscar Wilde, Irish Dramatist

Boredom, Business, People, Interest, Preference

"In marketing you must choose between boredom, shouting and seduction. Which do you want?"

Roy H. Williams, American Businessman

Boredom, Marketing, Seduction, Want

"Boredom, after all, is a form of criticism."

Wendell Phillips, American Activist

Boredom, Criticism

"Tedium and boredom are related, but not identical. Tedium comes from a person lacking an ideology to live by; the dulling fear fomented in the soul after confronting the paucity of life."

Kilroy J. Oldster, American Author

Boredom, Ideology, Soul, Fear

"Without lies humanity would perish of despair and boredom."

Anatole France, French Novelist

Boredom, Despair, Humanity, Lies

"He finds himself bored by the shenanigans of highly spirited young men. Their concerns reside somewhere between balder and dash."

Sara Sheridan, Scottish Author

Boredom, Youth, Behavior, Social

"Who wants a world in which the guarantee that we shall not die of starvation entails the risk of dying of boredom?"

Raoul Vaneigem, Belgian Philosopher

Boredom, Dying, Risk, Starvation

"Even boredom has its crises."

Mason Cooley, American Writer

Explore more quotes by Guy Debord

"In societies where modern conditions of production prevail, all of life presents itself as an immense accumulation of spectacles. Everything that was directly lived has moved away into a representation."

"Young people everywhere have been allowed to choose between love and a garbage disposal unit. Everywhere they have chosen the garbage disposal unit."

"Ideas improve. The meaning of words participates in the improvement. Plagiarism is necessary. Progress implies it. It embraces an author's phrase, makes use of his expressions, erases a false idea, and replaces it with the right idea."

"There is nothing more natural than to consider everything as starting from oneself, chosen as the center of the world; one finds oneself thus capable of condemning the world without even wanting to hear its deceitful chatter."

"Tourism, human circulation considered as consumption is fundamentally nothing more than the leisure of going to see what has become banal."

"Quotations are useful in periods of ignorance or obscurantist beliefs."

"Boredom is always counter-revolutionary. Always."

bottom of page