Motivational Quotes

Bores and boredom

The penalty for success is to be bored by people who used to snub you.

- Astor, Lady Nancy

Best Quotes about Bores and boredom

A yawn is a silent shout.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

People of Wealth and the so called upper class suffer the most from boredom.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Bloomfield, Lady

Perhaps the world's second worst crime is boredom. The first is being a bore.

Beaton, Sir Cecil

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

Steinberg, Saul

A bore is a person who opens his mouth and puts his feats in it.

Ford, Henry

I have a fear of being boring.

Bale, Christian

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

Benjamin, Walter

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

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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

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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

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Against boredom the gods themselves fight in vain.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Kissinger, Henry

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The wise person often shuns society for fear of being bored.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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What's wrong with being a boring kind of guy?

Bush, George

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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

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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

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Is boredom anything less than the sense of one's faculties slowly dying?

Berger, John

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

Russell, Bertrand

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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

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Boredom is the root of all evil--the despairing refusal to be oneself.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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

Bush, Barbara

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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

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Too many church services start at eleven sharp and end at twelve dull.

Havner, Vance

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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

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Boredom is always counter-revolutionary. Always.

Debord, Guy

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Bores bore each other too; but it never seems to teach them anything.

Marquis, Don

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The concept of boredom entails an inability to use up present moments in a personally fulfilling way.

Dyer, Wayne

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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.

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The devil's name is dullness.

Lee, Robert E.

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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

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Only those who want everything done for them are bored.

Graham, Billy

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Everyone is a bore to someone. That is unimportant. The things to avoid is being a bore to oneself.

Brenan, Gerald

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All kinds are good except the kind that bores you.

Voltaire

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You'll find boredom where there is an absence of a good idea.

Nightingale, Earl

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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

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Everything considered, work is less boring than amusing oneself.

Baudelaire, Charles

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

Dyer, Wayne

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Boredom: the desire for desires.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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The penalty for success is to be bored by people who used to snub you.

Astor, Lady Nancy

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Boring people are a reflection of boring people.

Horton, Doug

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And 'tis remarkable that they talk most who have the least to say.

Prior, Matthew

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The age of chivalry is past. Bores have succeeded to dragons.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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The life of a creator is not the only life nor perhaps the most interesting which a man leads. There is a time for play and a time for work, a time for creation and a time for lying fallow. And there is a time, glorious too in its own way, when one scarcely exists, when one is a complete void. I mean -- when boredom seems the very stuff of life.

Miller, Henry

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When people are bored it is primarily with themselves.

Hoffer, Eric

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People who have nothing to do are quickly tired of their own company.

Collier, Jeremy

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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.

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His shortcoming is his long staying.

Lewisohn, Lewis L.

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I spent a year in that town, one Sunday.

Deeping, Warwick

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Somebody's boring me. I think it's me.

Thomas, Dylan