Stendhal Quotes About Boredom

Quotes about: Boredom

• This is the curse of our age, even the strangest aberrations are no cure for boredom.

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  Blessing, Boredom, Age

  Stendhal, Joan Charles (1949). “Stendhal's The Red and the Black”

• The boredom of married life inevitable destroys love, when love has preceded marriage.

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  Boredom, Married, Inevitable

  Stendhal (2016). “The Red and the Black: World Classics”, p.168, World Classic

• The only unhappiness is a life of boredom.

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  Boredom, Unhappiness

• Conversationis like the table of contents of a dull book.... All the greatest subjects of human thought are proudly displayedin it. Listen to it for three minutes, and you ask yourself which is more striking, the emphasis of the speaker or his shocking ignorance.

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  Book, Ignorance, Thinking

• A strange effect of marriage, such as the nineteenth century has made it! The boredom of married life inevitably destroys love, when love has preceded marriage. And yet, as a philosopher has observed, it speedily brings about, among people who are rich enough not to have to work, an intense boredom with all quiet forms of enjoyment. And it is only dried up hearts, among women, that it does not predispose to love.

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  Marriage, Heart, Boredom

  Stendhal (2016). “The Red and the Black: World Classics”, p.168, World Classic

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