Boredom Quotes
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Boredom is the laboratory where new enthusiasms prepare themselves.
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Variety is more than a means of avoiding boredom, since art is more than an entertainment of the senses.
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Much is forgiven anyone who relieves the desperate boredom of the working press.
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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.
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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.
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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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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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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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Turning fifty ... is like flying: hours of boredom punctuated by moments of sheer terror.
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Man's worst enemies are boredom and discontent.
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Books - the best antidote against the marsh-gas of boredom and vacuity.
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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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I've got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom.
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Boredom is the conviction that you can't change ... the shriek of unused capacities.
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In small towns, news travels at the speed 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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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.
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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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Boredom is actually the most plentiful substance in the universe.
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The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity.
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Conclusion 1: Boredom= Flared tempers= hard words.
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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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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.
