Boredom Quotes
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One must choose in life between boredom and suffering.
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The chief product of an automated society is a widespread and deepening sense of boredom.
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Banality is like boredom: bored people are boring people, people who think that things are banal are themselves banal. Interesting people can find something interesting in all things.
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There are 6 reasons that a person does anything: Love, faith, greed, boredom, fear... revenge.
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It is the unknown that excites the ardor of scholars, who, in the known alone, would shrivel up with boredom.
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Boredom, after all, is a form of criticism.
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Morality is a venereal disease. Its primary stage is called virtue; its secondary stage, boredom; its tertiary stage, syphilis.
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It is only a step from boredom to disillusionment, which leads naturally to self-pity, which in turn ends in chaos.
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There isn't much of a music scene in Hermann, unless you like polka. But the landscape I grew up in is a part of me. I spent a lot of time in the woods doing a lot of nothing to break the boredom.
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Boredom is a fearsome prospect. There's a limit to the number of cars and microwaves you can buy. What do you do then?
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You'll find boredom where there is the absence of a good idea.
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When we hold back out of laziness, that is when we tie ourselves into knots of boredom.
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To do the same thing over and over again is not only boredom: it is to be controlled by rather than to control what you do.
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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.
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He regards boredom, I observe, as the One and Mighty Enemy of his soul. And will succeed in conquering it, I am sure—if he survives the experience.
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My definition of what makes a journey wholly or partially horrible is boredom.
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I see the children with their boredom and their vacant stares.
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Boredom is an instrument of social control. Power is the power to impose boredom, to command stasis, to combine this stasis with anguish. The real tedium, deep tedium, is seasoned with terror and with death.
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Is boredom anything less than the sense of one's faculties slowly dying?
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The effect of boredom on a large scale in history is underestimated. It is a main cause of revolutions.
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The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom.
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monotony is not to be worshipped as a virtue; nor the marriage bed treated as a coffin for security rather than a couch from which to rise refreshed.
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I know when I'm working I seldom get into trouble. My educated guess is that boredom has caused most of the problems with Hollywood celebrities.
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The sightless Milton, with his hair Around his placid temples curled; And Shakespeare at his side,-a freight, If clay could think and mind were weight, For him who bore the world!
