Motivational Quotes

Bores and boredom

I have a fear of being boring.

- Bale, Christian

Best Quotes about Bores and boredom

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

A yawn is a silent shout.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Steinberg, Saul

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

Boring people are a reflection of boring people.

Horton, Doug

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

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

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

Marquis, Don

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The devil's name is dullness.

Lee, Robert E.

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

Bloomfield, Lady

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

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

Bush, George

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When people are bored it is primarily with themselves.

Hoffer, Eric

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Only those who want everything done for them are bored.

Graham, Billy

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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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I have a fear of being boring.

Bale, Christian

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

Dyer, Wayne

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

Havner, Vance

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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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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

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Boredom is always counter-revolutionary. Always.

Debord, Guy

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Boredom: the desire for desires.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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

Nightingale, Earl

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His shortcoming is his long staying.

Lewisohn, Lewis L.

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

Collier, Jeremy

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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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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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Everything considered, work is less boring than amusing oneself.

Baudelaire, Charles

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All kinds are good except the kind that bores you.

Voltaire

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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

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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 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 wise person often shuns society for fear of being bored.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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

Thomas, Dylan

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

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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

Dyer, Wayne

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I spent a year in that town, one Sunday.

Deeping, Warwick

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

Ford, Henry

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Against boredom the gods themselves fight in vain.

Nietzsche, Friedrich