Motivational Quotes

Bores and boredom

I spent a year in that town, one Sunday.

- Deeping, Warwick

Best Quotes about Bores and boredom

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

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

Thomas, Dylan

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

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

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

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

Havner, Vance

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.

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

Bush, George

10.

Boredom is always counter-revolutionary. Always.

Debord, Guy

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I have a fear of being boring.

Bale, Christian

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Bloomfield, Lady

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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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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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Everything considered, work is less boring than amusing oneself.

Baudelaire, Charles

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Boring people are a reflection of boring people.

Horton, Doug

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

Benjamin, Walter

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

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

Prior, Matthew

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

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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 spent a year in that town, one Sunday.

Deeping, Warwick

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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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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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Against boredom the gods themselves fight in vain.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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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The devil's name is dullness.

Lee, Robert E.

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A yawn is a silent shout.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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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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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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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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When people are bored it is primarily with themselves.

Hoffer, Eric

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His shortcoming is his long staying.

Lewisohn, Lewis L.

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

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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

Nightingale, Earl

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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 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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Only those who want everything done for them are bored.

Graham, Billy

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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