Motivational Quotes

Bores and boredom

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

- La Bruyere, Jean De

Best Quotes about Bores and boredom

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

Berger, John

His shortcoming is his long staying.

Lewisohn, Lewis L.

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

Brenan, Gerald

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

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

When people are bored it is primarily with themselves.

Hoffer, Eric

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

Bloomfield, Lady

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

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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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I have a fear of being boring.

Bale, Christian

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Only those who want everything done for them are bored.

Graham, Billy

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Boring people are a reflection of boring people.

Horton, Doug

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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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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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Against boredom the gods themselves fight in vain.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Dyer, Wayne

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

Collier, Jeremy

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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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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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The devil's name is dullness.

Lee, Robert E.

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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I spent a year in that town, one Sunday.

Deeping, Warwick

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

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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

Astor, Lady Nancy

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

Ford, Henry

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

Thomas, Dylan

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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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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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All kinds are good except the kind that bores you.

Voltaire

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Boredom is always counter-revolutionary. Always.

Debord, Guy

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

Dyer, Wayne

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

Havner, Vance

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

Bush, George

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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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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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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 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