Boredom Quotes
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Boredom is the conviction that you can't change ... the shriek of unused capacities.
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All our life passes in this way: we seek rest by struggling against certain obstacles, and once they are overcome, rest proves intolerable because of the boredom it produces.
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Perhaps election fever is developing into something more like sleeping sickness, as the utter boredom of a contest in which almost all the attention seems to be on personalities and polls wears us all down. I just wish they would get on with it.
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Of course, true love is exceptional - two or three times a century, more or less. The rest of the time there is vanity or boredom.
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Books - the best antidote against the marsh-gas of boredom and vacuity.
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What people will do to get away from boredom!
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Boredom is a luxury good.
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God could cause us considerable embarrassment by revealing all the secrets of nature to us: we should not know what to do for sheer apathy and boredom.
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In small towns, news travels at the speed of boredom.
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It's all there-the boredom, the devotion, the horror and even the humor in an industrial war fought on a global scale that we'll never see again. Unit histories just do not get any better.
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If life — the craving for which is the very essence of our being — were possessed of any positive intrinsic value, there would be no such thing as boredom at all: mere existence would satisfy us in itself, and we should want for nothing.
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Boredom is the laboratory where new enthusiasms prepare themselves.
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Everyone rushes his life on, and suffers from a yearning for the future and a boredom with the present. But that man who devotes every hour to his own needs, who plans every day as if it were his last, neither longs for nor fears tomorrow.
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The opposite of love is indifference, and the opposite of happiness is boredom.
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Even boredom should be described with gusto. How many things are happening on a day when nothing happens?
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I've got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom.
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Much is forgiven anyone who relieves the desperate boredom of the working press.
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Boredom comes simply from ignorance and lack of imagination.
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What matters is entertainment. Eternity takes forever. The infinite expanse of time just does not know when to quit. The dead fear boredom the way mortals fear death.
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Turning fifty ... is like flying: hours of boredom punctuated by moments of sheer terror.
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To 'know your place' is a good idea in politics. That is not to say 'stay in your place' or 'hang on to your place', because ambition or boredom may dictate upward or downward mobility, but a sense of place - a feel for one's own position in the control room-is useful in gauging what you should try to do.
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BOREDOM with established truths is a great enemy of free men.
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One wonders what would happen in a society in which there were no rules to break. Doubtless everyone would quickly die of boredom.
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We have a world of pleasure to win, and nothing to lose but boredom.
