Boredom Quotes
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I always think boredom is to some extent the fault of the bored.
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Discussing how old you are is the temple of boredom.
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Boredom is the deadliest poison.
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Boredom is the laboratory where new enthusiasms prepare themselves.
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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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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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Books - the best antidote against the marsh-gas of boredom and vacuity.
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The two real problems in life are boredom and death.
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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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The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity.
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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 comes simply from ignorance and lack of imagination.
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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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The opposite of love is indifference, and the opposite of happiness is boredom.
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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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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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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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What people will do to get away from boredom!
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Boredom is a luxury good.
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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.
