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

Everything considered, work is less boring than amusing oneself.

Baudelaire, Charles

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

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

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

Marquis, Don

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

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

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

Thomas, Dylan

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

Nightingale, Earl

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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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I have a fear of being boring.

Bale, Christian

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

Havner, Vance

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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Only those who want everything done for them are bored.

Graham, Billy

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

Berger, John

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

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

Bloomfield, Lady

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

Dyer, Wayne

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His shortcoming is his long staying.

Lewisohn, Lewis L.

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

Prior, Matthew

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Boredom: the desire for desires.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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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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Against boredom the gods themselves fight in vain.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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A yawn is a silent shout.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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I spent a year in that town, one Sunday.

Deeping, Warwick

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

Bush, George

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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Boring people are a reflection of boring people.

Horton, Doug

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

Collier, Jeremy

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All kinds are good except the kind that bores you.

Voltaire

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The devil's name is dullness.

Lee, Robert E.

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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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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 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.