Boredom Quotes
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In small towns, news travels at the speed of boredom.
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Boredom is the laboratory where new enthusiasms prepare themselves.
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Man's worst enemies are boredom and discontent.
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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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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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Boredom is the conviction that you can't change ... the shriek of unused capacities.
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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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What people will do to get away from boredom!
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My marriage didn't make me sad, but it didn't make me happy either. My husband and I hardly spoke to each other. This wasn't because we were angry. We had nothing to say. I was dying of 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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Books - the best antidote against the marsh-gas of boredom and vacuity.
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Perhaps election fever is developing into something more like sleeping sickness, as the utter boredom of a contest in which almost all the attention seems to be on personalities and polls wears us all down. I just wish they would get on with it.
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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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Turning fifty ... is like flying: hours of boredom punctuated by moments of sheer terror.
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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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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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I've got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than 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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Boredom comes simply from ignorance and lack of imagination.
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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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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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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.
