Boredom Quotes - Page 11

• We've fallen for the devil's lie. His most basic strategy, the same one he employed with Adam and Eve, is to make us believe that sin brings fulfillment. However, in reality, sin robs us of fulfillment. Sin doesn't make life interesting; it makes life empty. Sin doesn't create adventure; it blunts it. Sin doesn't expand life; it shrinks it. Sin's emptiness inevitably leads to boredom. When there's fulfillment, when there's beauty, when we see God as he truly is-an endless reservoir of fascination-boredom becomes impossible.

  Randy Alcorn

  Lying, Believe, Adventure

  Randy Alcorn (2011). “Heaven”, p.394, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.

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• If I have to spend prolonged periods of time in a trailer, I go mad. Stuck in a metal box doing nothing, I lie there paralysed with boredom.

  Romola Garai

  Lying, Mad, Doing Nothing

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• Ennui has made more gamblers than avarice.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Made, Ennui, Drunkards

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• Without a job all there is to life is boredom and insecurity.

  John Lennon

  Jobs, Insecurity, Life Is

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• Boredom is a concept that I don't understand.

  Christian Louboutin

  Concepts

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• In many inner cities, there are issues of less economic stability, poorer education, community centers being stripped away, arts being removed from the school system leaving many children imbalanced, isolated from their most powerful self... the independent thinker, the creator, the dreamer often leaving children more susceptible to other harmful things out of boredom or feelings of rejection.

  Mya

  Art, Children, Powerful

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

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• I don't think anyone wants to do the same thing over and over again.

  Eric Bachmann

  Thinking, Want, Definition Of Insanity

  "Crooked Fingers". Interview with Alison Fields, pitchfork.com. March 1, 2002.

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• We have come to think that duty should come first. I disagree. Duty should be a by-product. Writing, the creative effort, the use of the imagination, should come first – at least, for some part of every day of your life. It is a wonderful blessing if you use it. You will become happier, more enlightened, alive, impassioned, light-hearted and generous to everybody else. Even your health will improve. Colds will disappear and all the other ailments of discouragement and boredom.

  Brenda Ueland

  Writing, Thinking, Blessing

  Brenda Ueland (2013). “If You Want to Write”, p.12, Simon and Schuster

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• I looked out the window for other passengers in love with their drivers, but we were well disguised, we pretended boredom and prayed for traffic.

  Miranda July

  Window, Traffic, Wells

  Miranda July (2008). “No One Belongs Here More Than You: Stories”, p.87, Simon and Schuster

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• Learning lines is hard for me because I have the attention span of a six year old. That's why being on planes all the time is so useful - I'm forced to learn out of boredom.

  Eddie Redmayne

  Years, Attention, Six Year Olds

  "Eddie Redmayne profile: Quotes, photos, videos and selected filmography of BAFTA and Oscar nominee" by Natalie Corner, www.mirror.co.uk. February 21, 2015.

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• Boredom between two people doesn't come from being together physically. It comes from being apart mentally and spiritually.

  Richard Bach

  Two, People, Together

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• Audacious ribald: your laughter will finish in hideous boredom before morning.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Morning, Laughter, Ribald

  George Bernard Shaw (2012). “Man and Superman: A Comedy and a Philosophy”, p.170, The Floating Press

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• When you pay attention to boredom it gets unbelievably interesting.

  Jon Kabat-Zinn

  Interesting, Attention, Pay

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• I finally overcame my phobia, and now I approach flying with a sort of studied boredom - a learned habit, thanks to my learn-to-fly-calmly training - but like all former flying phobics, I retain a weird and feverish fascination with aviation news, especially bad news.

  Susan Orlean

  Flying, Training, Fascination

  "In Flight" by Susan Orlean, www.newyorker.com. October 21, 2010.

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• Boredom, anger, sadness, or fear are not 'yours,' not personal. They are conditions of the human mind. They come and go. Nothing that comes and goes is you.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Sadness, Feeling Sad, Mind

  Eckhart Tolle (2010). “Stillness Speaks”, p.19, New World Library

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• If you really want a life which has no boredom in it, drop all masks, be true. Sometimes it will be difficult, I know, but it is worth it. Be true.

  Rajneesh

  Want, Sometimes, Mask

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• Boredom and restlessness are deeply related. Whenever you feel boredom, then you feel restlessness. Restlessness is a by-product of boredom.

  Rajneesh

  Feels, Products, Related

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• I always liked routine. I suppose I never found boredom very boring. I doubted I could explain it to someone like Margo but drawing circles through life struck me as a kind of reasonable insanity.

  John Green

  Circles, Drawing, Insanity

  John Green (2013). “Paper Towns”, p.129, A&C Black

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• German writings attain popularity through a great name, or through personalities, or through good connections, or through effort,or through moderate immorality, or through accomplished incomprehensibility, or through harmonious platitude, or through versatile boredom, or through constant striving after the absolute.

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

  Writing, Names, Personality

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• In Victor's life, monotony and boredom had nothing to do with one another. He repeated his repertoire so often that even from miles away, Clara could follow his conversation with anyone who happened to be sitting next to him.

  Luisa Valenzuela

  Women, Sitting, Next

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• one sank into the ancient sin of anomie when challenges failed.

  Carolyn Heilbrun

  Challenges, Sin, Ancient

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• Boredom is that awful state of inaction when the very medicine ― that is, activity ― which could solve it, is seen as odious. Archery? It is too cold, and besides, the butts need re-covering; the rats have been at the straw. Music? To hear it is tedious; to compose it, too taxing. And so on. Of all the afflictions, boredom is ultimately the most unmanning. Eventually, it transforms you into a great nothing who does nothing ― a cousin to sloth and a brother to melancholy.

  Margaret George

  Cousin, Brother, Archery

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• Rules equal boredom, and I don't like that.

  Simon Cowell

  Equal

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• People had been working for so many years to make the world a safe, organized place. Nobody realized how boring it would become. With the whole world property-lined and speed-limited and zoned and taxed and regulated, with everyone tested and registered and adressed and recorded. Nobody had left much room for adventure, except maybe the kind you could buy. [...] The laws that keep us safe, these same laws condemn us to boredom.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Adventure, Years, Law

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• I remember laughing with relief that the same old adolescent boredom goes on from generation to generation. ...the words took me back to my own years of stagnancy, and that terrible waiting for life to begin. [p. 68]

  Julian Barnes

  Years, Laughing, Waiting

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