Motivational Quotes

Bores and boredom

Everything considered, work is less boring than amusing oneself.

- Baudelaire, Charles

Best Quotes about Bores and boredom

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

A yawn is a silent shout.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

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.

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

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

Havner, Vance

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

Brenan, Gerald

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Beaton, Sir Cecil

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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

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

Bush, George

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

Berger, John

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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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All kinds are good except the kind that bores you.

Voltaire

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

Bloomfield, Lady

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Boredom is always counter-revolutionary. Always.

Debord, Guy

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

Collier, Jeremy

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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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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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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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Boring people are a reflection of boring people.

Horton, Doug

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

Marquis, Don

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

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

Nightingale, Earl

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

Prior, Matthew

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

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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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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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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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I spent a year in that town, one Sunday.

Deeping, Warwick

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The devil's name is dullness.

Lee, Robert E.

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Boredom: the desire for desires.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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Everything considered, work is less boring than amusing oneself.

Baudelaire, Charles

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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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I have a fear of being boring.

Bale, Christian

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When people are bored it is primarily with themselves.

Hoffer, Eric

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

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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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

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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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Only those who want everything done for them are bored.

Graham, Billy

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

Thomas, Dylan