Boredom Quotes
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Boredom is the conviction that you can't change ... the shriek of unused capacities.
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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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Passion goes, Boredom remains.
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Discussing how old you are is the temple of boredom.
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Turning fifty ... is like flying: hours of boredom punctuated by moments of sheer terror.
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Books - the best antidote against the marsh-gas of boredom and vacuity.
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In small towns, news travels at the speed of boredom.
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The two real problems in life are boredom and death.
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Boredom is the laboratory where new enthusiasms prepare themselves.
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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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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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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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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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The opposite of love is indifference, and the opposite of happiness is boredom.
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Boredom is a luxury good.
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What people will do to get away from 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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Much is forgiven anyone who relieves the desperate boredom of the working press.
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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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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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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.
