Boredom Quotes
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Boredom is the root of all evil - the despairing refusal to be oneself.
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Passion goes, Boredom remains.
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Boredom is the conviction that you can't change ... the shriek of unused capacities.
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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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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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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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Much is forgiven anyone who relieves the desperate boredom of the working press.
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Boredom is a luxury good.
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Boredom is the laboratory where new enthusiasms prepare themselves.
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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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Even boredom should be described with gusto. How many things are happening on a day when nothing happens?
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Boredom comes simply from ignorance and lack of imagination.
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The opposite of love is indifference, and the opposite of happiness is boredom.
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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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I've got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom.
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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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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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Turning fifty ... is like flying: hours of boredom punctuated by moments of sheer terror.
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We have a world of pleasure to win, and nothing to lose but boredom.
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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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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.
