Motivational Quotes

Bores and boredom

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

Best Quotes about Bores and boredom

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

Astor, Lady Nancy

Unless one is taught what to do with success after getting it, achievement of it must inevitably leave him prey to boredom.

Russell, Bertrand

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

Bush, George

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

Nightingale, Earl

Boring people are a reflection of boring people.

Horton, Doug

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

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

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

His shortcoming is his long staying.

Lewisohn, Lewis L.

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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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Boredom: the desire for desires.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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

Dyer, Wayne

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

Dyer, Wayne

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

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

Thomas, Dylan

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I spent a year in that town, one Sunday.

Deeping, Warwick

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Boredom is always counter-revolutionary. Always.

Debord, Guy

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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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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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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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Everything considered, work is less boring than amusing oneself.

Baudelaire, Charles

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Against boredom the gods themselves fight in vain.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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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A yawn is a silent shout.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Marquis, Don

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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 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 the dream bird that hatches the egg of experience. A rustling in the leaves drives him away.

Benjamin, Walter

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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All kinds are good except the kind that bores you.

Voltaire

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I have a fear of being boring.

Bale, Christian

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The devil's name is dullness.

Lee, Robert E.

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When people are bored it is primarily with themselves.

Hoffer, Eric

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Only those who want everything done for them are bored.

Graham, Billy

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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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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.