Being Bored Quotes

• The only thing worse than being bored is being boring.

  Jean Baudrillard

  Bored, Boring, Bores

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• I'm afraid of NOTHING except being bored!

  Greta Garbo

  Boredom, Bored

  "Fictional character: Marguerite Gautier". "Camille", 1936.

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

  Wayne Dyer

  People, Boredom, Life Is

  Wayne W. Dyer (2009). “Staying on the Path: Easyread Super Large 18pt Edition”, p.6, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• [I]nside every computer, there is a hidden man being bored.

  Jean Baudrillard

  Men, Bored, Computer

  Jean Baudrillard, Chris Turner (1996). “Cool Memories II, 1987-1990”, Duke University Press Books

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• I will risk everything to avoid being bored.

  Porfirio Rubirosa

  Bored, Risk

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• I’m bored’ is a useless thing to say. I mean, you live in a great, big, vast world that you’ve seen none percent of. Even the inside of your own mind is endless; it goes on forever, inwardly, do you understand? The fact that you’re alive is amazing, so you don’t get to say ‘I’m bored.

  Louis C. K.

  Inspirational, Funny, Life

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• The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity.

  Dorothy Parker

  Funny, Life, Wisdom

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• There's no excuse to be bored. Sad, yes. Angry, yes. Depressed, yes. Crazy, yes. But there's no excuse for boredom, ever.

  Viggo Mortensen

  Inspirational, Sad, Depression

  "Finding Viggo" by Alex Kuczynski, Vanity Fair, January 1, 2004.

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• Boredom is just the reverse side of fascination.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Philosophical, Boredom, Fascination

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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.

  Lou Holtz

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• There are no uninteresting things, only uninterested people.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  I Hate You, Ignorance, People

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

  Nancy Astor

  Success, Women, Bores You

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• In order to live free and happily you must sacrifice boredom. It is not always an easy sacrifice.

  Richard Bach

  Happiness, Spiritual, Sacrifice

  "Illusions : The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah". Book by Richard Bach, 1977.

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• You're a lot better off being scared than being bored.

  Harvey Mackay

  Bored, Scared, Better Off

  FaceBook post by Harvey Mackay from Jul 05, 2011

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• She refused to be bored chiefly because she wasn't boring.

  Zelda Fitzgerald

  Boredom, Boring, Bores

  Zelda Fitzgerald (2013). “The Collected Writings of Zelda Fitzgerald”, p.457, Simon and Schuster

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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.

  Dale Carnegie

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• I'm bored' is a useless thing to say. You live in a great, big, vast world that you've seen none percent of.

  Louis C. K.

  Travel, Bores You, Useless Things

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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.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Art, Past, Bores You

  F. Scott Fitzgerald (2009). “The Crack-Up”, p.157, New Directions Publishing

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• Every hero becomes a bore at last.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Motivational, Badass, Hipster

  'Representative Men' (1850) 'Uses of Great Men'

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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.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Boredom, Fascination, Sides

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• Only those who want everything done for them are bored.

  Billy Graham

  Bores You, Boredom, Done

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

  Cecil Beaton

  Boredom, World, Firsts

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

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Wise, Fear, Bores You

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• Every person has some splendid traits and if we confine our contacts so as to bring those traits into action, there is no need of ever being bored or irritated or indignant.

  Gelett Burgess

  Bored, Needs, Action

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• What greater happiness is there than the privilege of being bored together?

  Curtis Sittenfeld

  Bored, Together, Privilege

  Curtis Sittenfeld (2012). “American Wife”, p.349, Random House

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