Boredom Quotes
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The chief product of an automated society is a widespread and deepening sense of boredom.
C. Northcote Parkinson
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One must choose in life between boredom and suffering.
Madame de Stael
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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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When we hold back out of laziness, that is when we tie ourselves into knots of boredom.
Walter Annenberg
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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.
Heraclitus
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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.
Manly Hall
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Is boredom anything less than the sense of one's faculties slowly dying?
Arthur Helps
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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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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
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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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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
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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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My definition of what makes a journey wholly or partially horrible is boredom.
Martha Gellhorn
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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
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The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom.
Arthur Schopenhauer
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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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I see the children with their boredom and their vacant stares.
Billy Joel