Boredom Quotes
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One must choose in life between boredom and suffering.
Madame de Stael -
The chief product of an automated society is a widespread and deepening sense of boredom.
C. Northcote Parkinson
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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.
Idries Shah -
There are 6 reasons that a person does anything: Love, faith, greed, boredom, fear... revenge.
Ally Carter -
It is the unknown that excites the ardor of scholars, who, in the known alone, would shrivel up with boredom.
Wallace Stevens -
Boredom, after all, is a form of criticism.
Wendell Phillips -
Morality is a venereal disease. Its primary stage is called virtue; its secondary stage, boredom; its tertiary stage, syphilis.
Karl Kraus -
It is only a step from boredom to disillusionment, which leads naturally to self-pity, which in turn ends in chaos.
Manly Hall
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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.
Nathaniel Rateliff -
Boredom is a fearsome prospect. There's a limit to the number of cars and microwaves you can buy. What do you do then?
J. G. Ballard -
You'll find boredom where there is the absence of a good idea.
Earl Nightingale -
When we hold back out of laziness, that is when we tie ourselves into knots of boredom.
Walter Annenberg -
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.
Heraclitus -
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
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Is boredom anything less than the sense of one's faculties slowly dying?
Arthur Helps -
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.
Dorothy Dunnett -
My definition of what makes a journey wholly or partially horrible is boredom.
Martha Gellhorn -
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.
Saul Bellow -
I see the children with their boredom and their vacant stares.
Billy Joel -
The effect of boredom on a large scale in history is underestimated. It is a main cause of revolutions.
Bill Vaughan
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The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom.
Arthur Schopenhauer -
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.
Freya Stark -
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.
Hedy Lamarr -
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!
William Wordsworth