Motivational Quotes

Bores and boredom

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

Best Quotes about Bores and boredom

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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

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.

Everything considered, work is less boring than amusing oneself.

Baudelaire, Charles

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

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.

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

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

Brenan, Gerald

Only those who want everything done for them are bored.

Graham, Billy

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The devil's name is dullness.

Lee, Robert E.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Bloomfield, Lady

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A yawn is a silent shout.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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Boring people are a reflection of boring people.

Horton, Doug

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Boredom: the desire for desires.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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When people are bored it is primarily with themselves.

Hoffer, Eric

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

Berger, John

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

Bush, George

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

Ford, Henry

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

Marquis, Don

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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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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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Against boredom the gods themselves fight in vain.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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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Boredom is always counter-revolutionary. Always.

Debord, Guy

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

Thomas, Dylan

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

Prior, Matthew

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

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

Havner, Vance

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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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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

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

Nightingale, Earl

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

Collier, Jeremy

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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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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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I spent a year in that town, one Sunday.

Deeping, Warwick

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

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

Steinberg, Saul