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Bores and boredom

Everything considered, work is less boring than amusing oneself.
- Baudelaire, Charles
Bores and boredom Motivational Quotes



Best Quotes about Bores and boredom

1.
Everyone is a bore to someone. That is unimportant. The things to avoid is being a bore to oneself.
Brenan, Gerald

2.
Bore -- a person who talks when you wish him to listen.
Bierce, Ambrose

3.
Boredom is like a pitiless zooming in on the epidermis of time. Every instant is dilated and magnified like the pores of the face.
Baudrillard, Jean

4.
Boredom is just the reverse side of fascination: both depend on being outside rather than inside a situation, and one leads to the other.
Sontag, Susan

5.
Life is never boring, but some people choose to be bored.
Dyer, Wayne

6.
Boredom is not an end-product, is comparatively rather an early stage in life and art. You've got to go by or past or through boredom, as through a filter, before the clear product emerges.

7.
Boredom is a disease of the mind and psyche, an insidious disease. It not only takes the joy out of life, but the creativity as well. No one of God's children should ever be bored with life.

8.
Boredom is the dream bird that hatches the egg of experience. A rustling in the leaves drives him away.
Benjamin, Walter

9.
Boredom is a vital problem for the moralist, since at least half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it.
Russell, Bertrand

10.
Boredom is the root of all evil--the despairing refusal to be oneself.
Kierkegaard, S°ren

11.
He who seeks rest finds boredom. He who seeks work finds rest.

12.
I have a fear of being boring.
Bale, Christian

13.
My mind rebels at stagnation. Give me problems, give me work, give me the most abstruse cryptogram, or the most intricate analysis, and I am in my own proper atmosphere. I can dispense then with artificial stimulants. But I abhor the dull routine of existence. I crave for mental exaltation.
Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan

14.
The devil's name is dullness.
Lee, Robert E.

15.
Unless one is taught what to do with success after getting it, achievement of it must inevitably leave him prey to boredom.
Russell, Bertrand

16.
You'll find boredom where there is an absence of a good idea.
Nightingale, Earl

17.
The age of chivalry is past. Bores have succeeded to dragons.
Disraeli, Benjamin

18.
Never chain your dogs together with sausages. One must accustom one's self to be bored.
Bloomfield, Lady

19.
Perhaps the world's second worst crime is boredom. The first is being a bore.
Beaton, Sir Cecil

20.
Only the most acute and active animals are capable of boredom. -- A theme for a great poet would be God's boredom on the seventh day of creation.
Nietzsche, Friedrich

21.
A bore is a person who opens his mouth and puts his feats in it.
Ford, Henry

22.
Boredom: the desire for desires.
Tolstoy, Count Leo

23.
Too many church services start at eleven sharp and end at twelve dull.
Havner, Vance

24.
Man finds nothing so intolerable as to be in a state of complete rest, without passions, without occupation, without diversion, without effort. Then he feels his nullity, loneliness, inadequacy, dependence, helplessness, emptiness.
Pascal, Blaise

25.
The wise person often shuns society for fear of being bored.
La Bruyere, Jean De

26.
Everything considered, work is less boring than amusing oneself.
Baudelaire, Charles

27.
I am quite serious when I say that I do not believe there are, on the whole earth besides, so many intensified bores as in these United States. No man can form an adequate idea of the real meaning of the word, without coming here.
Dickens, Charles

28.
Against boredom the gods themselves fight in vain.
Nietzsche, Friedrich

29.
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

30.
Surely a long life must be somewhat tedious, since we are forced to call in so many trifling things to help rid us of our time, which will never return.
Johnson, Samuel

31.
The world is eaten up by boredom. You can't see it all at once. It is like dust. You go about and never notice, you breathe it in, you eat and drink it. It is sifted so fine, it doesn't even grit on your teeth. But stand still for an instant and there it is, coating your face and hands. To shake off this drizzle of ashes you must be for ever on the go. And so people are always on the go.
Bernanos, Georges

32.
One thing I can say about George... he may not be able to keep a job, but he's not boring.
Bush, Barbara

33.
All kinds are good except the kind that bores you.
Voltaire

34.
If you're bored with life -- you don't get up every morning with a burning desire to do things -- you don't have enough goals.
Holtz, Lou

35.
The penalty for success is to be bored by people who used to snub you.
Astor, Lady Nancy

36.
Somebody's boring me. I think it's me.
Thomas, Dylan

37.
Since boredom advances and boredom is the root of all evil, no wonder, then, that the world goes backwards, that evil spreads. This can be traced back to the very beginning of the world. The gods were bored; therefore they created human beings.
Kierkegaard, S°ren

38.
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.
Carnegie, Dale

39.
Boredom is always counter-revolutionary. Always.
Debord, Guy

40.
People of Wealth and the so called upper class suffer the most from boredom.
Schopenhauer, Arthur

41.
Boring people are a reflection of boring people.
Horton, Doug

42.
There are moments when, faced with our lack of success, I wonder whether we are failures, proud but impotent. One thing reassures me as to our value: the boredom that afflicts us. It is the hall-mark of quality in modern men.
Goncourt, Edmond and Jules De

43.
I begin with the principle that all men are bores. Surely no one will prove himself so great a bore as to contradict me in this.
Kierkegaard, S°ren

44.
Life, friends, is boring. We must not say so. After all, the sky flashes, the great sea yearns, we ourselves flash and yearn, and moreover my mother told me as a boy (repeatedly) Ever to confess you're bored means you have no inner Resources. I conclude now I have no inner resources, because I am heavy bored.
Berryman, John

45.
A yawn is a silent shout.
Chesterton, Gilbert K.

46.
Is boredom anything less than the sense of one's faculties slowly dying?
Berger, John

47.
The life of the creative man is lead, directed and controlled by boredom. Avoiding boredom is one of our most important purposes.
Steinberg, Saul

48.
The nice thing about being a celebrity is that, if you bore people, they think it's their fault.
Kissinger, Henry

49.
I spent a year in that town, one Sunday.
Deeping, Warwick

50.
A bore is a man who has nothing to say and says it anyway.


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