Motivational Quotes

Bores and boredom

Against boredom the gods themselves fight in vain.

- Nietzsche, Friedrich

Best Quotes about Bores and boredom

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

His shortcoming is his long staying.

Lewisohn, Lewis L.

A yawn is a silent shout.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

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

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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

Nightingale, Earl

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

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

Beaton, Sir Cecil

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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I have a fear of being boring.

Bale, Christian

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

Berger, John

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The devil's name is dullness.

Lee, Robert E.

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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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I spent a year in that town, one Sunday.

Deeping, Warwick

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

Prior, Matthew

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

Marquis, Don

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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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Boredom: the desire for desires.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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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 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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All kinds are good except the kind that bores you.

Voltaire

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Everything considered, work is less boring than amusing oneself.

Baudelaire, Charles

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

Bush, George

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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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Only those who want everything done for them are bored.

Graham, Billy

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

Astor, Lady Nancy

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

Havner, Vance

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

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

Thomas, Dylan

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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 wise person often shuns society for fear of being bored.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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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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When people are bored it is primarily with themselves.

Hoffer, Eric

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Boring people are a reflection of boring people.

Horton, Doug

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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.