Victor Hugo Quotes
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One must choose in life between boredom and suffering.
Madame de Stael -
It's the boredom that kills you. You read until you're tired of that. You do crossword puzzles until you're tired of that. This is torture. This is mental torture.
Jack Kevorkian -
Youth as glimpsed by its elders is a story that comes from afar, showing itself as either lovely to look at or a torment to endure.
Lewis H. Lapham -
The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom.
Arthur Schopenhauer -
Boredom is the legitimate kingdom of the philanthropic.
Virginia Woolf -
Many people, especially women, never experience boredom because they have never learned to work properly.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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In the U.S., you have to be a deviant or die of boredom.
William S. Burroughs -
Wickedness frames the engines of her own torment. She is a wonderful artisan of a miserable life.
Plutarch -
If there be devils, would I were a devil, To live and burn in everlasting fire, So I might have your company in hell, But to torment you with my bitter tongue!
William Shakespeare -
Much is forgiven anyone who relieves the desperate boredom of the working press.
William Weld -
I am aware that my musical style is not necessarily to the taste of all of you. I've got a heightened 'boredom factor' if music gets too redundant.
Wendy Carlos -
And the more I see Pleasures about me, so much more I feel Torment within me.
John Milton
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No torment in the world is comparable to an accusing conscience.
William Gurnall -
Deep attention, the cognitive style traditionally associated with the humanities, is characterized by concentrating on a single object for long periods (say, a novel by Dickens), ignoring outside stimuli while so engaged, preferring a single information stream, and having a high tolerance for long focus times. Hyper attention is characterized by switching focus rapidly among different tasks, preferring multiple information streams, seeking a high level of stimulation, and having a low tolerance for boredom.
N. Katherine Hayles -
Is boredom anything less than the sense of one's faculties slowly dying?
Arthur Helps -
Turning fifty ... is like flying: hours of boredom punctuated by moments of sheer terror.
Erica Jong -
There's a kind of release And a kind of torment in every goodbye for every man.
C. Day Lewis -
Do you love me Hero?" His pale green eyes were full of torment. "Do you love me like I love you?
Elizabeth Hoyt
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The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity.
Nir Eyal -
I've always dabbled on guitar, but never took lessons.
Adam Jones -
Don't try to use what you learn from Buddhism to be a Buddhist; use it to be a better whatever-you-al ready-are.
Dalai Lama -
Life, as I came to know it, revolved round feeding the horses, preparing them for work and making the implements they were to haul. Horses pulled wagons; they hauled the wool and the wheat and the merchandise. They had to be shod, and the harness and other equipment kept in repair.
R. M. Williams -
Work is the law of life, and to reject it as boredom is to submit to it as torment.
Victor Hugo