Boredom Quotes
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Boredom is the root of all evil - the despairing refusal to be oneself.
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Writing is a deeply immersive experience. When the words are flying, the house could be burgled and I wouldn’t notice. I have a low boredom threshold and I like intensity – writing is a way of escaping the quotidian.
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Passion goes, Boredom remains.
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Boredom is the laboratory where new enthusiasms prepare themselves.
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I always think boredom is to some extent the fault of the bored.
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The two real problems in life are boredom and death.
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Boredom lies only with the traveler's limited perception and his failure to explore deeply enough. After a while, I found my perception limited.
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I have a very low tolerance for boredom and often think I would have missed out on books entirely if I'd grown up in the Internet and video game age. Now I enjoy books for people of all ages, including children.
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Books - the best antidote against the marsh-gas of boredom and vacuity.
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My life is a black hole of boredom and despair." "So basically you've been doing homework." "Like I said, black hole.
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Turning fifty ... is like flying: hours of boredom punctuated by moments of sheer terror.
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In small towns, news travels at the speed of boredom.
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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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Even boredom should be described with gusto. How many things are happening on a day when nothing happens?
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To the distinguished female author’s left was her husband, probably also distinguished in some way, who had the look of many husbands: eyebrows perpetually raised a little in a defensive mask of polite interest, signifying boredom.
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Boredom comes simply from ignorance and lack of imagination.
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Boredom is a luxury good.
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I’m very interested in sublimation. I love the way Francis Bacon talked about the grin without the cat, the sensation without the boredom of its conveyance… I’ve always wanted to be able to convey figurative imagery in a kind of shorthand, to get it across in as direct a way as possible. I want there to be a human presence without having to depict it in full.
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BOREDOM with established truths is a great enemy of free men.
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Believe me, there’s nothing worse than being both immortal and intelligent. Imagine the boredom! Plus you start to ask questions, and the worst thing about questions is that sometimes, they have answers.
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The opposite of love is indifference, and the opposite of happiness is boredom.
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What people will do to get away from boredom!
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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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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.
