Motivational Quotes

Bores and boredom

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

Best Quotes about Bores and boredom

His shortcoming is his long staying.

Lewisohn, Lewis L.

One thing I can say about George... he may not be able to keep a job, but he's not boring.

Bush, Barbara

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

Bush, George

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

Brenan, Gerald

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

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

Steinberg, Saul

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

I spent a year in that town, one Sunday.

Deeping, Warwick

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

Nightingale, Earl

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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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When people are bored it is primarily with themselves.

Hoffer, Eric

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

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Boredom is always counter-revolutionary. Always.

Debord, Guy

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

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A yawn is a silent shout.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

Marquis, Don

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Against boredom the gods themselves fight in vain.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Only those who want everything done for them are bored.

Graham, Billy

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

Beaton, Sir Cecil

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

Collier, Jeremy

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

Berger, John

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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The devil's name is dullness.

Lee, Robert E.

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

Havner, Vance

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

Astor, Lady Nancy

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Everything considered, work is less boring than amusing oneself.

Baudelaire, Charles

38.

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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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

40.

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

41.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Dyer, Wayne

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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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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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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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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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All kinds are good except the kind that bores you.

Voltaire

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