Boredom Quotes
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Books - the best antidote against the marsh-gas of boredom and vacuity.
George Steiner -
I've got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom.
Thomas Carlyle
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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.
Susan Howatch -
My life is a black hole of boredom and despair." "So basically you've been doing homework." "Like I said, black hole.
Kiersten White -
She used to think of it vaguely as “We don’t get along,” but it wasn’t even that. There were no clashes or quarrels between them, no question of infidelity. He certainly wasn’t the type for an affair, and at forty-eight, her hair graying and her figure gone, she had resigned herself to weary middle age. It was just that together, bleakly confronted with each other, they experienced a vast and hopeless boredom.
Bel Kaufman -
Boredom has to be the most life sapping, mental disease you can be afflicted with.The most accurate definition of boredom I have ever heard is this - Boredom is the absence of a creative idea. But there is a simple cure - begin to think immediately of a better way to do something. The creative juices are within you but you must turn on the tap. Those who are bored are not living; they are dying. When their heart stops beating, it will be a mere formality. The best way to do anything has never been thought of. Get on a creative improvement kick and jar others mentally into the same activity.
Bob Proctor -
It is not enough to accept boredom, you must embrace it. It is only when you have completely embraced it that you can go beyond it.
Albert Low -
Turning fifty ... is like flying: hours of boredom punctuated by moments of sheer terror.
Erica Jong
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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.
Albert Camus -
Boredom rests upon the nothingness that winds its way through existence; its giddiness, like that which comes from gazing down into an infinite abyss, is infinite.
Soren Kierkegaard -
Boredom is the conviction that you can't change ... the shriek of unused capacities.
Saul Bellow -
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.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe -
Boredom is the laboratory where new enthusiasms prepare themselves.
Steven Heighton -
Much is forgiven anyone who relieves the desperate boredom of the working press.
William Weld
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The opposite of love is indifference, and the opposite of happiness is boredom.
Tim Ferriss -
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.
Arthur Schopenhauer -
Boredom is actually the most plentiful substance in the universe.
Amber Dermont -
The two real problems in life are boredom and death.
Saul Bellow -
In small towns, news travels at the speed of boredom.
Carlo D'Este -
What people will do to get away from boredom!
Mikhail Baryshnikov
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Even boredom should be described with gusto. How many things are happening on a day when nothing happens?
Wislawa Szymborska -
Conclusion 1: Boredom= Flared tempers= hard words.
Bisco Hatori -
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.
William Lewis Safir -
Man's worst enemies are boredom and discontent.
George W. Buck