Part one is here.

Other people are not only infuriating, but boring.
—Penelope Fitzgerald, The Knox Brothers

A fresh round of saloon bars would hold out promise of new disciples, new eccentrics, new bores, new near-criminals.
—Anthony Powell, A Dance to the Music of Time

He walked along the bank of the Main, was rather bored, as indeed any respectable traveler could be expected to be.
—Ivan Turgenev, Torrents of Spring

It is a fact that Frenchmen find everything except the sound of their own voices boring.
—Iris Owen, After Claude

London was no place to look for delicacies. Remembrance there was hammered thin, and to be faithful was to be a bore.
—Henry James, “The Marriages”

The rapid seconds of his fall were quite as suffused with boredom and ennui—and passed just as slowly as every other moment in his short, yet interminable existence.
—Joseph Mills, Zyxt

My hunger and my cowardice blend together into a prudent and banal mixture that, quite honestly, bores me to tears.
—Alexander Kuprin, The Duel

One’s not even grateful to the people who love one; if one doesn't love them, they only bore one.
—W. S. Maugham, The Painted Veil

Say I never understood the definition of purpose
why bore, flux, revise, tender, ensconce, or what
have you.
—Ryo Yamaguchi, “Tachyphemia”

They have invented an entirely new form of boredom.
—Anthony Powell, Venusberg

I am bored, you are frightened.
—Penelope Fitzgerald, on the impression Evelyn Waugh cultivated in his later years

No love only friendship or whatever this light irritability and boredom was called.—Barbara Pym, notebook

Irritating someone made a nice game to relieve her boredom.
—Stefan Zweig, “Twilight”

Boredom, that's what time travel is mostly about.
—Garry Kilworth, “On the Watchtower at Plataea”

Scared, bored, and tired—the spy’s classic condition.
—Alan Furst, The Foreign Correspondent

Time, with all its celerity, moves slowly to him whose whole employment is to watch its flight.
—Samuel Johnson, The Idler #21

Life is really too horribly funny, but unless one is an outsider looking on, it’s all such a bore.
—Graham Greene, letter

A summer mood of yawning and glazing eyes and little nightmare-ridden sleeps in bored and desperate rooms.
—Iris Murdoch, The Nice and the Good

She gave him a serious, open look that got across to him how bored she was without seeming at all to blame him for it.
—Allen Bratton, Henry Henry

“I’m bored.”
Bored?
“Children may be bored. But men do what they must.”
—Nicola Griffith, Menewood

The usual bored, stolid look that you see on the faces of most New Yorkers.
—Stuart Palmer, The Penguin Pool Murder

One attractive thing about me is that I’m never bored, because during any caesura my personal automatic pastime of questioning my own motives is there for me.
—Norman Rush, Mating

I wonder if people could go mad out of being bored with life.
—Elizabeth Jane Howard, Marking Time

Ball parks seem like unfrocked churches, places where even the boredom is of a finer quality.
—Wilfrid Sheed, “The Universal Baseball Association”

Boredom and urban cynicism had become so natural to them that an experience from which these qualities were absent seemed to be, in some way, defective.
—Mary McCarthy, The Oasis

You have to have been saturated in boredom—pickled in it—if you are to have the slightest grasp of what the suburbs are.
—Lars Iyer, Nietzsche and the Burbs

I thought maybe I was getting a cold, until I remembered that this was what boredom felt like.
—Sara Gran, “The Mystery of the Mycelial Net That Will Sometimes, Somehow, If We’re Lucky, Catch Us When We Fall”

There’s a sort of boredom which is almost fascinating because it’s so complete and perfect.
—Diana Athill, Don’t Look at Me Like That

I yearned for elegance till I discovered that the cultivation of it excludes most of the rest of life and can be profoundly boring.
—Ilka Chase, I Love Miss Tilli Bean

A bored person’s very good memory for things from long ago.
—Nina Stibbe, Man at the Helm

This must be how life works, she thinks—the lull of boredom and reverence dulling your mind for catastrophe.
—Sean Vestal, Daredevils

I’m bored with cheap and cheerful
I want expensive sadness.
—The Kills, “Cheap and Cheerful”

In the end it was life itself that she declared to us was a bore, without one quite knowing from where she was taking her term of comparison.
—Marcel Proust, Sodom and Gomorrah

Everything breathes a mortal boredom here.
—Napoleon, letter from St. Helena

The unfulfilled desire that creates boredom is desire for desire.
—Patricia Mayer Spacks, Boredom

“It’s precisely boring one’s self without relief,” he protested, “that takes courage.”
—Henry James, The Golden Bowl

One of the most boring things about adolescence is the knowledge of how people can be worked.
—Mary McCarthy, Memoirs of a Catholic Girlhood

Childhood boredom is a special kind of boredom. It is a boredom full of dreams.
—Italo Calvino, “The Art of Fiction No. 130,” The Paris Review

Practice is only as boring and difficult as it looks.
—Gabe Habash, Stephen Florida

Boredom can be viewed as a kind of fossil fuel, poured into inertia and ignited with fabulous results.
—Gary Indiana, Do Everything in the Dark

I realized that people who are not bored cannot tell stories. But there is no longer any place for boredom in our lives.
—Walter Benjamin, “The Handkerchief”

I’ve told so many stories, you know just to get out of situations, or out of boredom, or just to entertain.
—Orson Welles

Boredom is not an end product, is comparatively rather an early stage in life and art. You've got to go by or past or through boredom as through a filter before the clear product emerges.
—F. Scott Fitzgerald, notebook entry #774

All great art is based on a condition of fundamental boredom—passionate boredom.
—T. S. Eliot, recorded by Siegfried Sassoon in his diary, March 30, 1922

An epic is a sublimated boredom.
—Thomas Mann, Tagebücher

Victory brings on imitation and ultimately boredom.
—Jacques Barzun, From Dawn to Decadence

I hate to admit this, but even your own funeral can get boring after a while.
—Donald E. Westlake, The Scared Stiff

Maybe the best thing about boredom is what it forces us to do next.
—Paul Bloom, New Yorker

Be interesting! Be interesting! Art is no excuse for boring people.
—Jules Renard, from his journal

Sometimes the dystopia was boring.
—Elisa Gabbert