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Bores and boredom

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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Best Quotes about Bores and boredom

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Collier, Jeremy

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

Dyer, Wayne

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

Steinberg, Saul

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

The nice thing about being a celebrity is that, if you bore people, they think it's their fault.

Kissinger, Henry

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

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

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

Marquis, Don

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

Bloomfield, Lady

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His shortcoming is his long staying.

Lewisohn, Lewis L.

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

Bush, George

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

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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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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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All kinds are good except the kind that bores you.

Voltaire

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

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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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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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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The devil's name is dullness.

Lee, Robert E.

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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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Only those who want everything done for them are bored.

Graham, Billy

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

Thomas, Dylan

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I have a fear of being boring.

Bale, Christian

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When people are bored it is primarily with themselves.

Hoffer, Eric

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Boredom is always counter-revolutionary. Always.

Debord, Guy

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

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

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Nightingale, Earl

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

Prior, Matthew

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Boring people are a reflection of boring people.

Horton, Doug

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Against boredom the gods themselves fight in vain.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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I spent a year in that town, one Sunday.

Deeping, Warwick

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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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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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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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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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A yawn is a silent shout.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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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.