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

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

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

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

Boredom: the desire for desires.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

Only those who want everything done for them are bored.

Graham, Billy

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

Bush, George

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.

All kinds are good except the kind that bores you.

Voltaire

Boring people are a reflection of boring people.

Horton, Doug

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

Berger, John

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I have a fear of being boring.

Bale, Christian

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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The devil's name is dullness.

Lee, Robert E.

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Against boredom the gods themselves fight in vain.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

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

Beaton, Sir Cecil

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

Marquis, Don

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

Collier, Jeremy

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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 vital problem for the moralist, since at least half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it.

Russell, Bertrand

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

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

Steinberg, Saul

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

Bloomfield, Lady

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

Benjamin, Walter

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

Prior, Matthew

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

Nightingale, Earl

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

Thomas, Dylan

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

Havner, Vance

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Bore -- a person who talks when you wish him to listen.

Bierce, Ambrose

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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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Everything considered, work is less boring than amusing oneself.

Baudelaire, Charles

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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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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

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Boredom is always counter-revolutionary. Always.

Debord, Guy

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

Ford, Henry

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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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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

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A yawn is a silent shout.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

Astor, Lady Nancy

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I spent a year in that town, one Sunday.

Deeping, Warwick