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5 Quotes About Boredom
  • The chief product of an automated society is a widespread and deepening sense of boredom.
    C. Northcote Parkinson
  • One must choose in life between boredom and suffering.
    Madame de Stael

Boredom, anger, sadness, or fear are not 'yours,' not personal. They are conditions of the human mind. They come and go. Nothing that comes and goes is you. Clarke quotes about Boredom Arthur Schopenhauer quotes about Boredom It is to our lack of proper content ('notre manque de contenu propre:;», Fr.), of our inner emptiness that we need occupations and distractions, otherwise ('faute de quoi', Fr.) we experience boredom, which is nothing elses than the feeling of unease that take hold.

  • It is the unknown that excites the ardor of scholars, who, in the known alone, would shrivel up with boredom.
    Wallace Stevens
  • Morality is a venereal disease. Its primary stage is called virtue; its secondary stage, boredom; its tertiary stage, syphilis.
    Karl Kraus
  • Boredom is a fearsome prospect. There's a limit to the number of cars and microwaves you can buy. What do you do then?
    J. G. Ballard
  • Boredom, after all, is a form of criticism.
    Wendell Phillips
  • It is only a step from boredom to disillusionment, which leads naturally to self-pity, which in turn ends in chaos.
    Manly Hall
  • There isn't much of a music scene in Hermann, unless you like polka. But the landscape I grew up in is a part of me. I spent a lot of time in the woods doing a lot of nothing to break the boredom.
    Nathaniel Rateliff
  • Banality is like boredom: bored people are boring people, people who think that things are banal are themselves banal. Interesting people can find something interesting in all things.
    Idries Shah
  • When we hold back out of laziness, that is when we tie ourselves into knots of boredom.
    Walter Annenberg
  • The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom.
    Arthur Schopenhauer
  • You'll find boredom where there is the absence of a good idea.
    Earl Nightingale
  • It's the boredom that kills you. You read until you're tired of that. You do crossword puzzles until you're tired of that. This is torture. This is mental torture.
    Jack Kevorkian
  • To do the same thing over and over again is not only boredom: it is to be controlled by rather than to control what you do.
    Heraclitus
  • The sightless Milton, with his hair Around his placid temples curled; And Shakespeare at his side,-a freight, If clay could think and mind were weight, For him who bore the world!
    William Wordsworth
  • Thanks to Twitter, iPads, BlackBerrys, voice-activated in-dash navigation systems, and a hundred other technologies that offer distraction anywhere, anytime, boredom has loosened its grip on us at last - that once-crushing 'weight' has become, for the most part, a memory.
    Walter Kirn
  • He regards boredom, I observe, as the One and Mighty Enemy of his soul. And will succeed in conquering it, I am sure—if he survives the experience.
    Dorothy Dunnett
  • My definition of what makes a journey wholly or partially horrible is boredom.
    Martha Gellhorn
  • Of course boredom may lead you to anything. It is boredom sets one sticking golden pins into people, but all that would not matter. What is bad (this is my comment again) is that I dare say people will be thankful for the gold pins then.
    Fyodor Dostoevsky
  • One receives as reward for much ennui, despondency, boredom -such as a solitude without friends, books, duties, passions must bring with it -those quarter-hours of profoundest contemplation within oneself and nature. He who completely entrenches himself against boredom also entrenches himself against himself: he will never get to drink the strongest refreshing draught from his own innermost fountain.
    Friedrich Nietzsche
  • monotony is not to be worshipped as a virtue; nor the marriage bed treated as a coffin for security rather than a couch from which to rise refreshed.
    Freya Stark
  • Ennui is the disease of hearts without feeling, and of minds without resources.
    Madame Roland
  • ... except in the eyes of a few fanatics (untrustworthy as all lovers) an unmitigated expanse of water is dull even when blue: not in a small boat, where you are part of the winds and currents and tides and are allowed to hold the tiller now and then; but from those decks which the shipping companies with subconscious insight try to make as suburban as possible so that the impact of the monster outside may be lessened, and where the unrecognized boredom is so deep that a wispy smear of smoke on the horizon will queue up a crowd as if for a Valkyrie passing.
    Freya Stark
  • Boredom is the self being stuffed with itself.
    Walker Percy
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One could get bored even with beauty when one was constantly surrounded by it.
– Morgan Rhodes

Only boring people get bored.
– Ruth Burke

I always think boredom is to some extent the fault of the bored.
– Kate Ross

I’ve got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom.
– Thomas Carlyle

Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours.
– Dale Carnegie

Life is never boring but some people choose to be bored. The concept of boredom entails an inability to use up present moments in a personally fulfilling way. Boredom is a choice; something you visit upon yourself, and it is another of those self-defeating items that you can eliminate from your life.
– Wayne Dyer

Boredom can be a lethal thing on a small island.
– Christopher Moore

“That’s right,” she told the girls. “You are bored. And I’m going to let you in on a little secret about life. You think it’s boring now? Well, it only gets more boring. The sooner you learn it’s on you to make life interesting, the better off you’ll be.”
– Maria Semple

Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves?
– Friedrich Nietzsche

There’s no time to be bored in a world as beautiful as this.

When you pay attention to boredom it gets unbelievably interesting.
– Jon Kabat-Zinn

She refused to be bored chiefly because she wasn’t boring.
– Zelda Fitzgerald

I abhor the idea of a perfect world. It would bore me to tears.
– Shelby Foote

I’m not hungry. But I’m bored. Therefore, I shall eat.

There’s no excuse to be bored. Sad, yes. Angry, yes. Depressed, yes. Crazy, yes. But there’s no excuse for boredom, ever.
– Karolvig Viggo Mortensen

Some people find life boring, there’s too much time. Few find life so exciting that there’s no time at all and life just zooms by.
– RVM

“I’’m bored” is a useless thing to say. I mean, you live in a great, big, vast world that you’ve seen none percent of. Even the inside of your own mind is endless; it goes on forever, inwardly, do you understand? The fact that you’re alive is amazing, so you don’t get to say “I’m bored.”
– Louis C.K.

I log out from FB. Reason: I am bored.
After 5 min I signed in. Reason: I am bored.

Fridge full of food, nothing to eat. Wardrobe full of clothes, nothing to wear. Internet full of sites, nothing to go on.

The only time I open my books to do homework is when I can’t think of anything else to do.

Dear brain, please start being able to tell the difference between hungry and bored. Sincerely, I’m getting fat!

That awkward moment when you finish watching a TV series and you don’t know what to do with your life any more.

Boredom – God’s way of telling you that you’re wasting time.

It’s better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring.
– Marilyn Monroe

We can’t be bored. We can’t be. There is always something new.

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There is always something to do if they get bored, they just refuse to do it.

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Being too good is boring, tinge of badness makes you interesting, charming and adventurous!

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There are no uninteresting things, only uninterested people.
– G.K. Chesterton

Boredom

There is something more terrible than a hell of suffering – a hell of boredom.
– Victor Hugo

Boredom is where a king sits atop his throne. The king moves not for fear of sudden, and swift death at the hand of wild boars.

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Bored, bored, bored. Look a cheese nip!. Nope still bored.

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Normal is boring.

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If you’re always bored then you’re always lazy, if you’re never bored then you’re always in some kind of drama.

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I’m as bored as a blind guy watching a silent movie.

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Boredom means you know what you’re doing.

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Boredom is a choice.

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Life is what you make it…If one refuses to use one’s imagination..it will be boring.

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Only a boring person is bored.

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Being Bored Is Having No Weed To Smoke.

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Boredom is when you check the fridge over and over hoping that something amazing will appear.

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I’m as bored as a midget in a theme park.

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He who reads this quote is bored.

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Someone’s boring me I think it’s me

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Funny Saying About Boredom

Boredom is a sign of a weak mind.

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The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity.
– Dorothy Parker

5 quotes about boredom make you

Boredom: the desire for desires.
– Leo Tolstoy

Boredom comes from a boring mind.
– Metallica

Famous Quotes About Boredom

Perhaps the world’s second worst crime is boredom. The first is being a bore.
– Jean Baudrillard

5 Quotes About Boredom At Work

All kinds are good except the kind that bores you.
– Voltaire

Funny Quotes About Boredom

Boredom is the self being stuffed with itself.