Boredom Quotes
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There are 6 reasons that a person does anything: Love, faith, greed, boredom, fear... revenge.
Ally Carter
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Boredom, after all, is a form of criticism.
Wendell Phillips
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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
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It is the unknown that excites the ardor of scholars, who, in the known alone, would shrivel up with boredom.
Wallace Stevens
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You'll find boredom where there is the absence of a good idea.
Earl Nightingale
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Morality is a venereal disease. Its primary stage is called virtue; its secondary stage, boredom; its tertiary stage, syphilis.
Karl Kraus
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Thanks to Twitter, iPads, BlackBerrys, voice-activated in-dash navigation systems, and a hundred other technologies that offer distraction anywhere, anytime, boredom has loosened its grip on us at last - that once-crushing 'weight' has become, for the most part, a memory.
Walter Kirn
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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.
Jack Kevorkian
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The problem in public life is learning to overcome terror; the problem in married life is learning to overcome boredom.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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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?
J. G. Ballard
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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!
William Wordsworth
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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.
Freya Stark
