Boredom Quotes
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I always think boredom is to some extent the fault of the bored.
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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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Discussing how old you are is the temple of boredom.
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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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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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The two real problems in life are boredom and death.
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Books - the best antidote against the marsh-gas of boredom and vacuity.
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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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Turning fifty ... is like flying: hours of boredom punctuated by moments of sheer terror.
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The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity.
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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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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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Boredom comes simply from ignorance and lack of imagination.
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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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The opposite of love is indifference, and the opposite of happiness is 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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Boredom is a luxury good.
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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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BOREDOM with established truths is a great enemy of free men.
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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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Much is forgiven anyone who relieves the desperate boredom of the working press.
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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.
